This Thursday, the Senate will vote on Senator Rand Paul’s resolution blocking President Trump’s arms sales to Qatar — more on that here. The Senate will also vote on nominations. The House is in session Monday through Thursday. The vote that no doubt will get the...
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Two Tankers Attacked in Gulf of Oman
Two tankers traveling through the Gulf of Oman were attacked on Thursday, forcing the crews to abandon the ships, and which left one of the ships on fire. One of the sailors was reported “slightly injured” in the incidents. The ships were the Front Altair, a tanker...
Opinion: A Sex Worker Says Decriminalization Means a Safer Workplace
Alexi Ashe Meyers and Rebecca Zipkin recently wrote an op-ed where they dismissed sex worker who put their lives on the line advocating for themselves and their communities. I’m one of the voices they warned readers against in their editorial, because I want...
Lew Rockwell’s “Declaration Confusion”: Ep. 119
https://youtu.be/RL00TxIdxSQ During the week, Patrick took the opportunity to read from, and expound upon, an article called "The Declaration Confusion" (which appeared in Lew Rockwell's book The Left, The Right, and The State ) for the newly renamed Liberty, Bigly...
Citizens Disobey New Zealand Gun Ban, Only 530 of 300,000 People Turned Guns In
In March, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced the “first tranche” in a number of moves to restrict the rights of New Zealand citizens to protect themselves with firearms. This move was in direct response to the horrific murders that unfolded on March...
Pentagon’s Phony Iran ‘Evidence’: New Rationale for US Intervention?
Last week a senior Pentagon official accused Iran of having sabotaged four oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman on May 12 and of firing a rocket into Baghdad’s Green Zone on May 19. Iran executed these events, he said, either directly or through regional “proxies.” But...
Why State Propaganda is Far Worse Than Corporate Advertising
One of the key criticisms leveled at a free enterprise capitalist system is that the desire for material goods is an unnatural by-product of corporate power. Indeed, as argued by post-Keynesian economist and social critic John Kenneth Galbraith, in his popular 1958...
Was it worth it? Guernica to Sana’a
When the Fascist fleet of twenty bombers, made up of German and Italian ‘volunteers’ serving the Spanish Nationalist forces, dropped their destructive payload onto the city of Guernica the world reacted in outrage. A large military force had knowingly attacked...
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