US News In 2021, between 41,000 and 48,000 American prisoners were placed in solitary confinement. Nearly 1,000 people have been in solitary for over a decade. Reason A US appeals court upheld the ban on smoking in federally subsidized housing. Reuters The Pentagon...
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The Afghanistan Withdrawal, One Year Later
by Dan McKnight | Aug 29, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
This is a mournful anniversary. One year ago, on August 26, thirteen U.S. soldiers were killed by ISIS-affiliated suicide bombing at the Hamid Karzai airport in Kabul during the evacuation. They were the last Americans to die in Afghanistan. Poor planning by the...
Scott Horton on CSPAN2 Book TV for Hotter Than the Sun 8/28-8/29
by Connor Freeman | Aug 28, 2022 | Blog
Scott Horton, our Director and host of the Scott Horton Show, will be on CSPAN2 Book TV discussing his new book Hotter Than The Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. This interview took place at FreedomFest last month and airs today (6:05pm EDT) and tomorrow (6:05am...
New Pentagon Office Has Orwellian Name
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 27, 2022 | Blog
Washington's official propaganda outlet Voice of America reports on the new Orwellian named Pentagon agency tasked with reducing civilian deaths. The "Civilian Protection Center of Excellence" will receive a tiny fraction of the Pentagon's $800 billion budget. The...
COI #316: The Darya Dugina Assassination
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 26, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #316, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover the assassination of Darya Dugina, the latest JCPOA news, Tehran’s improved diplomatic ties with Arab states, and the recent U.S. bombings in Syria. Connor discusses a car bombing outside Moscow that killed Russian...
US Launches More Airstrikes in Syria, Says Four Killed
by Dave DeCamp | Aug 26, 2022 | News
The US launched more airstrikes in Syria on Thursday, marking the third day of violence since President Biden ordered the bombing of facilities in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, on Tuesday night.
News Roundup 8/25/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 24, 2022 | News Roundup
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...

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.
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From Savagery to Civilization
"The market economy is a man-made mode of acting under the division of labor. But this does not imply that it is something accidental or artificial and could be replaced by another mode. The market economy is the product of a long evolutionary process. It is the...
Peace on Earth
Peace on Earth is the mantra that we hear, especially now but on and off over the coming year. Those who use violence, will smile it out. Those who profit from war may cheer those words from corporate offices. Those who hate will do so for entire collectives of...
Human Rights Watch: Yes, Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza
A growing body of legal experts and international humanitarian organizations have concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.
What Corporatism Actually Is
"The fundamental idea both of guild socialism and of corporativism is that every branch of business forms a monopolistic body, the guild or corporazione. This entity enjoys full autonomy; it is free to settle all its internal affairs without interference of external...
The Pause That Refreshes
I will be spending the holidays with my children and grandchildren at an undisclosed bunker location in the inland Rocky Mountain west and off the 'net until the new year when I will resume blogging at the Institute... Since I paused Chasing Ghosts and started...
Good Plan Means My Plan
"All this passionate praise of the supereminence of government action is but a poor disguise for the individual interventionist’s self-deification. The great god State is a great god only because it is expected to do exclusively what the individual advocate of...
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