US News In July, a Denver police officer saw a man in a crowd carrying a gun. A group of cops responded by opening fire, injuring six people. Rather than addressing the police officers who fired on a group of innocent people, the city has responded by restricting...
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US Carries Out Airstrikes Targeting ‘Iran-Backed’ Groups in Syria
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 23, 2022 | News
US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced it carried out airstrikes in Syria on Tuesday. The Department of Defense claims the bombs hit facilities used by groups affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and were in retaliation for an attack on US personnel in Syria.
Lessons From the Rape of Nanking
by Kym Robinson | Aug 22, 2022 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
The "Rape of Nanking" is a high watermark of imperial savagery, even in the context of the violent and brutal Japanese Empire. This frenzy of rape and genocide was committed against a Chinese populace after their government abandoned the city and the international...
Here’s What Fernando Tesón Misunderstands About Murray Rothbard
by David Gordon | Aug 22, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
In his valuable article “War and Humanitarian Intervention,” in The Routledge Companion to Libertarianism (pp. 441–56), Fernando R. Tesón raises some interesting criticisms of Murray Rothbard’s views on war as part of a more general discussion of the topic, and I’d...
Biden Steps Up Somalia Strikes After Redeploying Troops
by Will Porter | Aug 20, 2022 | News
American airstrikes in Somalia are on the rise in recent months, with US Africa Command (AFRICOM) conducting a flurry of operations against al-Shabaab militants since President Joe Biden reversed a full troop withdrawal ordered by his predecessor.
News Roundup 8/18/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 17, 2022 | News Roundup
US News Air Force Special Operations Command’s CV-22 Osprey aircraft fleet has been grounded over unknown issues with the clutch. Defense News China A top US military commander said Tuesday that the US must “contest” China’s missile launches over Taiwan that were...
News Roundup 8/17/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 16, 2022 | News Roundup
US News The Department of Education will forgive student loans for ITT Technical Institute students from January 1, 2005 until it closed in 2016. Over 200,000 former attendees of the school will have $3.9 billion forgiven. Market Watch The Army transferred control of...
State Department: JCPOA Negotiations Over, Iran Must Drop ‘Extraneous’ Demands
by Connor Freeman | Aug 15, 2022 | News
After the latest round of indirect talks in Vienna, there is a draft deal currently on the table to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), proposed by European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.
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Chasing Ghosts Dispatch 006: The Carrier Reality: Dead on Arrival
Stop the madness. Stop deploying carriers Stop building them. Just stop. I won’t be getting Christmas cards this year from the Aircraft Carrier Industrial Base Coalition I am not alone in these notions and the late Captain Wayne Hughes did yeoman’s work on these ideas...
No Crickets for Cricket!
The governor of South Dakota, Kristi Noem, has been plagued by a self-inflicted and festering wound for about a week now. An excerpt from her soon-to-be released memoir, aptly and prophetically entitled No Going Back, has transformed the governor from a Republican...
Richman and Woods
Tom Woods and I discuss alleged antisemitism on U.S. college campuses:
Creative Control and Private Property
Private property isn’t about selfishness so much as it’s about creative control. Someone might want to have their own business, not because they’re greedy, but because they have a vision of how they want things to go that won’t be realized if everyone else gets a say...
RIP, British Army 1415 – 2024
John Cleese and the Monty Python troop were seers in the 1970s. I am fond of saying the British win all their military victories in spite of their best efforts. The IED virus is destroying the institution. The British Army is reducing security checks in pursuit of...
Republicans: Israel Not Just First, But Before the First Amendment
No matter how bad either side gets the other side can only try to outdo them. The Post: On Wednesday, they passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which its advocates said would empower the federal government to crack down on anti-Israel protests on campuses by...
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