US News The Pentagon is looking to expand the amount of non-classified information it can withhold from the public. [Link] The Biden Administration's effort to fight corruption in Latin American will involve the US intelligence agencies funding NGOs. [Link] Great...
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Who Opposed Nuking Japan?
by Scott Horton | Jun 4, 2021 | Blog
"The Japanese were ready to surrender and it wasn't necessary to hit them with that awful thing." —Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower “In 1945 Secretary of War Stimson, visiting my headquarters in Germany, informed me that our government was preparing to drop an atomic bomb on...
How a Libertarian Would Solve Land Conflict in the Middle East
by Jeff Deist | Jun 4, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism
The recent spate of bombing violence in Israel's West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza demonstrates the enduring attachment both Israelis and Palestinians have to physical land in the country. Both sides make claims—legal, moral, and political—to land within Israel,...
House Members Demand Pentagon Give Israel an Extra Billion in Aid
by Dave DeCamp | Jun 3, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers sent a letter to the Pentagon on Wednesday urging Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to give the Israelis more military aid after Israel’s Gaza bombing campaign. The effort was led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), who was joined by...
News Roundup 6/2/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 2, 2021 | News Roundup
Great Power Biden’s 2022 Pentagon budget calls for fewer bombs that are typically used in the Middle East and more munitions to target China. [Link] Russia says it is revoking the 1992 “open lands” accord with the US in response to the US expelling Russian diplomats....
Memorial Day: Remember Political Lies that Caused Soldiers to Die
by Jim Bovard | Jun 1, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
This article was originally published at the Institute last year on Memorial Day and is reprinted below. On Memorial Day, the media do their usual sacralizing of war. Instead, it should be a day for the ritualized scourging of politicians. During the last 70 years,...
Gaza Ceasefire to Take Effect Friday Morning
by Dave DeCamp | May 21, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Thursday night, Israel’s security cabinet voted unanimously in favor of a ceasefire to end the Israeli bombing campaign in Gaza that has been raging since last Monday. The ceasefire was brokered by Egypt and is set to take effect early Friday morning. A Hamas...
News Roundup 5/18/21
by Kyle Anzalone | May 18, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Biden is considering keeping a Trump-era Pentagon rule that allows the Department of Defense to carry out psyops with less oversight from the State Department. [Link] Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Russia is advancing illegal claims in the Arctic....
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Hey Don’t Threaten Me With a Good Time
WSJ: The U.S. decision not to veto the resolution was “a very bad omen,” said Itamar Rabinovich, a former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and adviser to several prime ministers. “If things continue this way,” he said, the so-called special relationship between Israel...
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The big boss man has said that we can blog, chat and rant about whatever we wish. So, expect to see as much from me here. I most likely will keep most things about the liberty and anti-war sector but I was thinking about sharing short stories, training advice,...
But Hamas…
When Israel's defenders bring up Hamas's execrable anti-Semitic and genocidal charter, they should be reminded that for decades before the 1948 self-declared founding of Israel, Zionist leaders and settlers had talked about reclaiming and sanctifying the "Promised...
‘Netanyahu Wants the World to Accuse Israel of Genocide, Apartheid and Ethnic Cleansing’
How this for irresponsible political leadership?: Veteran Haaretz columnist Bradley Burston: "He wants the world to accuse Israel of genocide and apartheid, violent occupation and ethnic cleansing" so that Israelis believe "the world hates us, and he is the only one...
Trump: The American Empire Personified
That's why they hate him. He's just saying what they're all thinking, but you're not supposed to do that. Dave DeCamp: Former President Trump said in an interview with Israel Hayom over the weekend that Israel made a “big mistake” by broadcasting images and videos of...
My Favorite Michael Malice Quote
If the government didn’t have a monopoly on security, only rich people would be able to have security just like when the government got out of other businesses, the only cars produced were limousines, the only clothes produced were tuxedos and the only food produced...
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