US News The TSA is offering a self-defense class for flight crews. [Link] Haiti Haiti’s new Western-backed prime minister calls for elections as soon as possible. [Link] Great Power Russia calls on the UK and France to be involved in nuclear weapons talks. [Link] The...
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News Roundup 7/29/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 29, 2021 | News Roundup
China A bipartisan House bill will recreate the Cold War-era Foreign Broadcast Information Service as the Open Translation and Analysis Center. The OTAC’s mission will be to counter China and is funded with $80 million annually from 2022 to 2026. [Link] Secretary of...
News Roundup 7/28/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 28, 2021 | News Roundup
US News The CDC issued new guidance calling for vaccinated Americans to wear masks in some circumstances and that all students and staff wear masks at school. [Link] Tech companies plan to create a database to identify and deplatform extremist content. Other tech...
U.S. Ends ‘Combat Mission’ In Iraq, Continues Occupation
by Dave DeCamp | Jul 27, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Monday, President Biden and Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi agreed that the U.S. “combat” mission in Iraq will be over by the end of the year, but US troops will remain in the country in an advisory role. “I think things are going well. Our role in Iraq...
Leaked: How GOP Insiders Torpedoed Attempt To Add ’28 Pages’ Declassification to Party Platform
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Jul 26, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
According to leaked emails obtained by Middle East Eye, an unnamed Republican Party figure orchestrated the defeat of a proposed 2016 GOP plank calling for the declassification of 28 pages on Saudi government links to the 9/11 plotters. That individual then notified...
News Roundup 7/21/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 21, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Fifteen percent of the Air Force fleet of F-35s are without engines. [Link] An Arlington Texas police officer shot and killed a young woman. She was lying in the grass when the officer attempted to shoot a dog and missed. [Link] Senators Lee, Murphy, and...
How Not to Treat Human Beings as Moral Persons
by Laurie Calhoun | Jul 16, 2021 | Featured Articles
Immanuel Kant, an eighteenth-century German philosopher, famously espoused the following maxim of morality: Act in such a way that you treat humanity...never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end. The terms of this principle, a formulation...
News Roundup 7/14/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 14, 2021 | News Roundup
US News A Florida town is attempting to fine a homeowner $165,000 for a cracked driveway, a damaged fence, and parking cars on the lawn. [Link] Two Cleveland police officers were arrested and charged with stealing $5,000 from a man on the way to pay for his mother's...
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Ban “Ethnic Cleansing”
I propose that we defenders of individual rights stop using the term ethnic cleansing. Why? Because it is the sort of euphemism bad people would use to disguise what they are doing when they expel or annihilate large numbers of people viewed as members of the wrong...
Joe Lieberman is Dead
The Iraqis won't miss him because they're dead too because he killed them.
The Eternal Panopticon: The State as Predator
Lizard Farmer did an excellent synopsis of how the state stalks its prey. The observations are older but still germane. If London had this technology in 1770, America would not have been born and Paul Revere, the Committees of Correspondence and his colleagues would...
The Great Max Blumenthal on the Genocide Democrats
At the Woman’s National Democratic Club in Washington DC on March 7, 2024 https://youtu.be/kS3HOEss9rk
Jerusalem Post: You Go Fight a War to Destroy Iran For Us
We would like it better if Iran was broken up into six warring ethno-states, they say. Just in case you thought America's problems with Iran had anything to do with America's national interests. No, it's all about Israel. Has been since at least 1993.
Liberals Are So Horrible
Vote Vets, which was created by Democrats to cash in on opposition to Iraq War II, is now running ads attacking Republicans for holding up more billions for war in Ukraine. They pretend that somehow American forces will have to go fight the next war for Poland or some...
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