"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever. ... The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest." Thomas Jefferson said this about slavery. He could have just as easily been talking...
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11/27/18 Hunter DeRensis on the Bankruptcy of the American Empire
Hunter DeRensis joins the show to talk about his recent article for the American Conservative Magazine. He cites Stein's law, named for economist Herbert Stein, which says that if something can't go on forever, it will stop. This seems obvious, but people frequently...
06/27/18 Bruce Fein on American Empire
Bruce Fein is interviewed on his new article for The American Conservative Magazine, "American Empire Demands a Caesar". The evolution of the Republic to the Empire is discussed, and where and when the Republic went wrong is debated. This episode of the Scott Horton...
Liberating Women
That's the reason for the American empire. Everybody knows that: "The Iraqi government is poised to legalize child marriage for the nation’s majority Shiite Muslim population. But the law, which some expect to pass before this month’s parliamentary elections, would do...
TGIF: New York Times Acknowledges US Global Empire
One big advantage the war party has is the public's ignorance about the activities of the far-flung American empire. Although frustrating, that ignorance is easy to understand and has been explained countless times by writers in the public choice tradition. Most...
TGIF: Dying for the Empire Is Not Heroic
Predictably, the news media spent most of the week examining words Donald Trump may or may not have spoken to the widow of an American soldier killed in Niger, in northwest Africa, in early October. Not only was this coverage tedious, it was largely pointless. We know...
President Xi stresses Party loyalty in historic speech in Beijing
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. Beijing — As tensions continue to rise — and accelerate— over North Korea and its missile program, China’s President Xi Jinping gave his highly anticipated speech at the 90th anniversary celebration of the...
North Korea Promises To Respond With ‘Firm Action’ Against The United States
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. In a show of force following North Korea’s latest test fire of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Friday, two U.S. supersonic B-1 bombers — accompanied by fighter jets from both South Korea and Japan...
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Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
