As a state grows, it always tries to find more ways to limit the freedom of its people. In the best case, this might take the form of pervasive surveillance and perpetual nudges. Yet it rarely stops there. The state might decide to support ill-advised adventurism...
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Invading Mexico is a Bad Idea (Duh!)
by Weimin Chen | Apr 11, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Following the violent attack on Americans in the Mexican border city of Matamoros in early March, South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham stated that he was prepared to get tough and introduce legislation to set the stage for U.S. military intervention in...
White House Wants to Form International Tribunal to Prosecute Russian Leader for War Crimes
by Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman | Mar 29, 2023 | News
After months of indecision, the Joe Biden administration has come out in favor of using international mechanisms to punish Russian officials for the “crime of aggression” in Ukraine. The White House has resisted Kiev’s effort to prosecute President Vladimir Putin and other Russian leaders at the International Crime Court (ICC) over fears that American officials could face similar accountability.
3/24/23 Dan McKnight on Defend the Guard’s Victory in Arizona and How You Can Help Keep the Momentum Going This Monday
by Scott Horton | Mar 25, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Dan McKnight returns to the show to talk about Defend the Guard’s recent success in Arizona and how you can help bring about another victory this Monday in Texas. Defend the Guard is state-level legislation that bars Congress from deploying...
Arizona State Senate Passes ‘Defend the Guard Act’
by Michael Maharrey | Mar 22, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
[Yesterday], the Arizona Senate narrowly passed the Defend the Guard Act, a bill to require the governor to stop unconstitutional foreign combat deployments of the state’s National Guard troops. Passage into law would take a big step toward restoring the founders’...
Ep 012 “Sisyphus is God: Government Incompetence and Martial Failure”
by Bill Buppert | Mar 20, 2023 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast
Episode Notes Government, for a variety of reasons, is manifestly incompetent in everything it does and this lends parts of the explanatory framework in why systemic failure is the feature not a bug in Western martial efforts. The critiques of the government...
War and Delusion: A Critical Examination
by Laurie Calhoun | Mar 7, 2023 | Blog, Foreign Policy
In this episode of the Protestant Libertarian Podcast, Alex Bernardo sits down once again with Laurie Calhoun. Laurie is a philosopher, a cultural critic and an author. She is a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute, where she regularly writes articles analyzing...
COI #391: The White House Fuels the Ukrainian ‘Meat Grinder’
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 3, 2023 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #391, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman discuss the former Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction’s comments that Washington is making the same mistakes it did in Afghanistan as a result of pouring tens of billions of dollars in aid and weapons...
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A Home into a House
It’s a modest house, a unit trapped inside of a suburb within a suburb. Mostly elderly live here. A woman in her late seventies greets me, “I’m Rosanne, the neighbour.” She takes me through the house and shows me what needs to be carried out. Heavy furniture and the...
Ben Shapiro Shows Why He Can’t Be Taken Seriously
Dave Smith highlights another reason why Ben Shapiro’s attempts to defend Israel’s genocide in Gaza cannot be taken seriously.
Netanyahu’s Godson’s Father-in-Law Trump: Jewish Americans who vote for Biden don’t love Israel
Jeez. Who does Genocide Joe have to help Israel first-degree mass murder to get some respect from the Zionists around here? Biden could drop a nuke on Rahmallah and Trump would cry that his would have been a thermo-nuke and he'd'a hit the Jenin refugee camp while he...
The IDF Follies Continue
The "vaunted" Israeli Defense Forces have an entirely undeserved reputation subject to gushing hagiographic treatment in the corporate/access media and even their intelligence services have reputations untethered to reality. The historians will have a cottage industry...
Video: IDF Murders Civilians Gathering Aid
Blood-soaked IDF war criminals teach Palestinians the price of collecting humanitarian aid: summary execution. Food sure makes good bait for starving refugees, huh? Well you know who else eats food? That's right, Hamas. Footage obtained by Al Jazeera. Exclusive...
Five Chimneys of Gaza
Millions and thousands become empty numbers when scaled in the context of history. As a scale of human life taken, those numbers are tragic and can seem unreal. A life balanced against policy, allowed to suffer and die beneath a wider context that is expedient or...
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