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Murray Rothbard’s ‘War Guilt in the Middle East,’ Spanish Translation

by Murray N. Rothbard | Jan 31, 2024 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism

Editor's Note: This Murray Rothbard article was originally featured in the Spring-Autumn 1967 issue of Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought, and is republished with permission of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Credit for the translation belongs to Mamela...

COI #536: As Evidence of Genocide Mounts, Biden Refuses to Condition Military Aid to Israel

by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 31, 2024 | Conflicts of Interest

On COI #536, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest news from Ukraine, Israel, and the Middle East. Odysee Rumble Donate LBRY Credits bTTEiLoteVdMbLS7YqDVSZyjEY1eMgW7CP Donate Bitcoin 36PP4kT28jjUZcL44dXDonFwrVVDHntsrk Donate Bitcoin Cash...

Richard Sakwa Explains How We Ended Up In A New Cold War

by Ted Snider | Jan 31, 2024 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

The war in Ukraine is a complicated tangle of three wars in one. It is a civil war between Ukraine’s European leaning west and its Russian leaning east. It is a war between Ukraine and Russia. And it is a war between Russia and NATO. Ben Abelow’s book, How the West...

New Merger Guidelines Could Make 2024 a Difficult Year for Business and Biden

by Norman Singleton | Jan 31, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles

A common way politicians and government officials bury bad or controversial news is to release it at a time when it is guaranteed to receive limited attention, such as 4:45 p.m. on a Friday or right before a holiday. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the...

NATO Chief Visits US to Push for Ukraine Aid

by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 30, 2024 | News

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is in the US this week to push for Congress to pass a massive $61 billion aid package for Ukraine proposed by the White House. The supplemental defense spending bill has been stalled in Congress for several months. In an effort...

Israel Fails to Produce Evidence to Justify Widespread Cemetery Destruction in Gaza

by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 30, 2024 | News

The Israeli military granted CNN a three-hour tour inside the Gaza Strip to view the destruction of Palestinian cemeteries. The outlet explained that the evidence presented by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) did not confirm Tel Aviv’s claims about tunnels under the...

Debacles at Home and Abroad Propel ‘Defend the Guard’

by Jim Bovard | Jan 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

The National Guard is back in the headlines thanks to a showdown at the Texas border and Joe Biden’s latest foreign policy debacle. The Biden administration has refused to enforce federal law to limit undocumented immigrants (many of whom “lost” their documents just...

Western Media’s Blackout of Israel’s “Hannibal Directive”

by Brad Pearce | Jan 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Editor's note: The Libertarian Institute's Executive Director Scott Horton recently spoke with Brad Pearce about the subject of this article and Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel. Their interview can be found here. In the time since the October 7 invasion of Israel...

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Submarine Blues: Over-budget and Not Underwater

I often bag on the US Navy surface fleet as a sad shadow of the fleet that used to be. The nuclear submarine fleet is joining that maritime house of woe. U.S. Navy Captain Jerry Hendrix, who in a recent assessment observed: “In fact, production of new submarines...

Pegasus Down: The Refueler Follies March On

The KC46A is the replacement for the renowned KC135 refueling bird which had the last production aircraft rolled out in 1965. The KC46A is plagued with problems to include the bone-headed notion to put the refueling crew in the cockpit instead of the rear of the...

Blaming Freedom

Freedom is nearly always blamed for the bad consequences of unfreedom, that is, of government intervention. Take immigration. We hear these days that migrant gangs are killing, terrorizing, and stealing from Americans. Some immigrants without government papers have...

Insurrection of the Mind.

Star Trek Insurrection is not one of the better films in the series, but it seeks to address issues of humanity that sometimes only science fiction can. Immortality, the value of life and human relationships with technology. It is fitting that the film starts with the...

They Know the Truth

Cut from the book. After catching Woodward faking that Lavrov quote, I had to cut all the citations from that book out of mine. But I'll leave this here at least because it's funny: Insider journalist Bob Woodward wrote in 2024 that the administration recognized...

Bob Woodward Badly Misquotes Russian FM Lavrov

I emailed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward: Dear Bob, It appears that you have misquoted FM Lavrov on page 88 of your new book. Lavrov’s full quote was: “Those who mechanically repeat the points made in Bucharest and insist that ‘third countries’ have no right to...