Washington is launching the “Ukraine Content Aggregator,” an artificial intelligence program designed to detect Russian disinformation online. Secretary of State Antony Blinken unveiled the project at the Freedom House 2023 Annual Awards Ceremony last week.
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US Sending Abrams Tanks to Germany To Train Ukrainian Soldiers
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 22, 2023 | News
America’s top military officer said the Pentagon will ship 31 Abrams Tanks to Europe next month. Once in Germany, Ukrainian soldiers will train on the weapons platform until the tanks and troops are deployed to the battlefield.
NATO Sends Patriot Missile Defense Systems to Ukraine
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 19, 2023 | News
Kiev has received a shipment of Patriot air defense systems from the US and Germany, Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov confirmed on Twitter. While Kiev will get only a limited number of advanced interceptors, the military chief said Ukraine had realized a “dream.“
Scott Horton’s Greatest Waco Hits
by Jim Bovard | Apr 19, 2023 | Featured Articles
Thirty years ago, Waco radicalized a teenage grocery clerk in Austin, Texas. Scott Horton was horrified both by the televised carnage of the FBI assault and by the mindless support for the feds he heard voiced by suburban housewives. Unlike the national media, Scott...
Biden Looking to Expand Internet Surveillance After Discord Leaks
by Dave DeCamp | Apr 15, 2023 | News
The Biden administration appears poised to increase internet surveillance in response to the leaked Pentagon documents that appear to have been posted on the messaging platform Discord.
Big Tech, As Brought To You By the Federal Reserve
by Norman Singleton | Mar 27, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
New York Times Technology writer David Streitfeld recently examined the role the Federal Reserve’s easy money policies played in the rise and, if not fall then at least slippage, of many technology companies. Immediately after the bursting of the housing bubble (which...
US, S. Korea Kick Off War Games, N. Korea Tests Submarine-Launched Missile
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 13, 2023 | News
Tensions on the Korean Peninsula are spiraling. Pyongyang has launched two missiles from a submarine while Washington and Seoul have opened massive military drills in South Korea. North Korea believes there is a “realistic” chance of nuclear war and the US is deploying more strategic assets to the region.
What the Yemeni People Need From Us Right Now
by Derek Wheeler | Mar 8, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Accountability. This, according to Kate Kizer and Scott Paul, is the solution Yemenis need. We're supposed to believe that the same people who have contributed to the atrocities inflicted upon the people of Yemen, led by the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates, with...
‘Big Tech’ Was Enabled by the Fed
by Ron Paul | Mar 7, 2023 | Featured Articles
Now you see it...maybe soon you won’t. Over the last year, the seeming ability of stock values of many technology companies to keep rising forever met resistance. This was true even for the major technology companies known collectively as “big tech.” During the last...
1/27/23 Arthur Bloom on Don Reynolds and the Fast and Furious Scandal
by Scott Horton | Feb 6, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott talks with journalist Arthur Bloom about the case of Donald Reynolds. Reynolds is currently serving a life sentence plus 75 years in a Communications Management Unit (CMU), a prison for terrorists. But Reynolds is not a terrorist, he’s in on...
Nations Push to Break Stalemate Over Sending Tanks to Ukraine
by Connor Freeman | Jan 24, 2023 | News
Over the weekend, other NATO members’ pressure on Berlin continued to mount while bipartisan American lawmakers have issued demands that Washington lead by example and send its own heavy tanks to Ukraine.
US Shipping Arms from Israel to Ukraine – NYT
by Will Porter | Jan 18, 2023 | News
The US military is supplying Ukraine with hundreds of thousands of artillery shells pulled from a “vast but little-known” stockpile based in Israel, the New York Times reported, citing multiple US and Israeli officials.
1/12/23 Matt Taibbi on the Twitter Files, Russiagate and Government Censorship
by Scott Horton | Jan 13, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. This week on Antiwar Radio, Scott talks with Matt Taibbi about the latest batch of Twitter Files, released seconds before Taibbi jumped on the line. To start, Scott asks Taibbi to respond to the claim he’s become a right-winger. They then dig into...
US Warplane Reports Unsafe Encounter with Chinese Jet
by Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman | Dec 29, 2022 | News
The US Department of Defense released a video showing a Chinese fighter jet flying near an American RC-135 Rivet Joint reconnaissance plane. The Pentagon claims the incident occurred in the skies over the South China Sea.
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The Myth of “Hyper-Rugged-Isolationist-Individualism”
Myth #1: Libertarians believe that each individual is an isolated, hermetically sealed atom, acting in a vacuum without influencing each other. This is a common charge, but a highly puzzling one. In a lifetime of reading libertarian and classical-liberal...
The Lesson From Germany and Korea
Institutions are, of course, in some sense the products of culture. But, because they formalize a set of norms, institutions are often the things that keep a culture honest, determining how far it is conducive to good behaviour rather than bad. To illustrate the...
Occupational Licensing Increases Prices and Deprives People of Options
When you shop online, vendors usually give you a bunch of different ways to sort your options. Take Amazon: One popular sorting option – especially for customers with low income – is “Price: Low to High.” You’ve probably used it yourself many times. This...
Free Book: An Anarchist Critique of the COVID Mandates
I’ve had the opportunity to write a short book offering what is essentially an anarchist critique of COVID mandates. This includes the accusation that states did most of the killing rather than the virus. The 123-page book, Measuring the Mandates: Questioning the...
Democratic Socialist Turns Libertarian! #PorcFest2023
https://youtu.be/G2eSuiXNaaQ Once you accept the principle of government, namely that there must be a judicial monopoly and the power to tax, once you accept this principle incorrectly as a just principle, then any idea or any notion of restraining or limiting...
What War Hawks Would Sound Like If They Weren’t Psychopaths
Modern warfare almost always leads to killing lots of innocents; if governments were held to the same standards as individuals, these killings would be manslaughter, if not murder. This doesn’t mean that war is never justified. But the reasonable hawkish mood is...
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