Scott talks to Gareth Porter about the national political scene in Iran, where, in large part thanks to U.S. intervention, the population is increasingly aligning behind the most conservative forces, and moving away from President Rouhani. Iranians, Porter says, have...
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5/20/21 Daniel Larison on Israel’s De Facto Annexation of Palestine
Daniel Larison talks Israel-Palestine. He takes on the common straw man argument that Israel "has a right to defend itself" from the belligerence of its neighbors. In the abstract, of course, every sovereign nation should have the right to self-defense; the problem is...
The Secret Is Out And it Can No Longer Be Denied
“I don’t think there has been a greater engine of inequality than the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States”. Stan Druckenmiller "Americans should increasingly question the role of the Fed and its impact on society. It’s not normal, nor should it be, that the...
News Roundup 5/19/21
US News A city in California has dropped charges and paid a settlement to two journalists. The city gave the journalists access to documents, then claimed the journalists hacked the government. [Link] Senator Tim Kaine says he is hopeful for a repeal of the 1991 and...
How State Lockdowns Shredded Your Right to Due Process
Over a year ago, the COVID panic shook the world. We were told it would only be “15 days to flatten the curve” as businesses were locked down, “nonessential” employees were forced out of work (I’ve written about the myth of the nonessential employee here), masks were...
The Idiocy and Immorality of Socialism – Tom G. Palmer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-AVGumi40U ... my basic motivation for being a libertarian had never been economic but moral. ... While I was convinced that the free market was more efficient and would bring about a far more prosperous world than statism, my major...
5/17/21 Hassan El-Tayyab on American Complicity in Saudi Arabia’s War of Genocide in Yemen
Hassan El-Tayyab discusses the state of the war in Yemen. The Biden administration famously announced in February that it would be ending support for Saudi "offensive operations" in Yemen, including targeting assistance and maintenance on their military equipment. In...
In Gaza, We Dread The Darkness And Wait For The Next Strike To Land
"When I speak to U.S. officials, I urge them to remember that the billions in unconditional military aid that they approve each year for Israel — aid that the Israeli military uses against my community and my people — means the United States is not a neutral bystander...
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