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12/17/18 Nasser Arrabyee on the Ceasefire in Hodeidah

by Scott Horton | Dec 17, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Nasser Arrabyee gives the latest on the war in Yemen, following the recent peace talks in Sweden where the UN negotiated a ceasefire in Hodeidah. Despite only moderate political pressure from the United States to end the war, Arrabyee thinks that increased media...

News Roundup 9/5/18

by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 5, 2018 | News Roundup

Arizona's governor selects former Senator Jon Kyl to fill John McCain's Senate seat. [Link] Aaron Mate argues Russiagate myths with James Risen. [Link] The US warns Israel not to attack Iranian targets in Iraq. [Link] US sanctions against Iran are starting to reduce...

News Roundup 6/7/18

by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 7, 2018 | News Roundup

Arizona police brutally beat an unarmed man. [Link] The Pentagon is developing AI to track and identify nuclear weapons. [Link] Rand Paul explains how Congress has neglected its duty in constraining executive war powers. [Link] Marjory Cohen on the fight of two men to...

The War on Opioids Has Become a War on Patients

by Jeffrey A. Singer | Mar 12, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice

As Anne Fuqua recently pointed out in the Washington Post, non-medical drug users accessing heroin and fentanyl in the underground drug market are not the only victims in the opioid crisis. Many patients whose only relief from a life sentence of torturing pain are...

Upside-Down America: Manafort, Hillary, Miller and Parkland

by Craig Cantoni | Feb 24, 2018 | Blog

When I was a kid, my Italian-American mom, who was a superb cook, made pineapple upside-down cake, which was an all-American desert. Now I’m retired and living in a nation that has upside-down priorities and ethics. Two recent examples are particularly telling—and...

Recommendations for Police Reform

by Peter R. Quiñones | Dec 10, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice, Peter Quinones

When society is presented with the task of rehabilitating one of its failed public services the responses are normally varied and emotional. Everyone has an opinion that is based upon their worldview, and it’s usually a hill they're willing to die upon. No subject...

Torture by Smartphone

by Craig Cantoni | Nov 8, 2017 | Blog

A museum in Paris features torture devices used in the middle ages, such as the rack. Centuries from now, a torture museum of the 21st century will feature smartphones as the most popular torture device of the times. My latest torture by smartphone began with the...

Tucson Court to Hear Extradition of Woman Accused of Feeding her Mother

by Janet Phelan | Jun 25, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice

On Tuesday, Pima County Superior Court in Arizona will hear a case involving a fugitive from justice and the request for extradition to Miami-Dade County, in Florida. The fugitive, a former New York attorney, is a 64-year-old woman named Barbara Stone. Stone was...

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Pentagon Follies: Accounting for DEI Expenditures

Inclusion, Equity and Diversity (IED) is communism in blackface. This viral contagion has raced to the top of government bureaucracies and, of course, facilitates a race to the bottom in quality and competence. The wizards at the Pentagon who have yet to account for...

A Soho Forum discussion of COVID with Tom Woods

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKzl5CngE5Q Check out Tom's great book, Diary of a Psychosis.

US Abrams Tanks Withdrawn from Fighting in Ukraine

Five four million dollar tanks up in smoke. They'll make every excuse they wish but the days of manned tanks are over. Ukraine has lost five Abrams tanks in recent months, The New York Times reported this month, citing an unnamed senior US official. At least three...

The Aircraft Carrier is the Crossbow and Chariot of the Modern Age

The US Navy, of course, is desperately trying to get authorization to build more Ford-class carriers. Ironic that they name the carrier after a violence broker famous for being rather clumsy and unable to navigate around. The first of class doesn't work properly: it...