US News Trump is using the PATRIOT Act to indefinitely detain a non-US citizen in the US. Trump is the first president to use this power. [Link] The Trump administration is considering adding a regulation that would require all US citizens to be photographed entering...
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News Roundup 12/2/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 2, 2019 | News Roundup
US News The California DMV is making $50 million a year selling drivers information. [Link] Jordan Smith explains fingerprint analysis can be a complex and subjective science. The so-called experts who testify in criminal trials have dubious qualifications. [Link] The...
11/18/19 Ted Snider on the Bolivian Coup America’s Always Wanted
by Scott Horton | Nov 19, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Ted Snider about his recent article, "Finally Got Him," which explores the details behind the coup in Bolivia. Although it's being held up as a triumph of democracy, Snider says this is obviously a coup, just like recent cases in Venezuela, Brazil,...
Haitians Rise Against The Empire
by Steven Woskow | Oct 5, 2019 | Blog
Thousands of Haitians have taken to the streets in protest against the US puppet government in Haiti and the constant meddling in Haitian affairs by the Core Group (US, Canada, France, Brazil, Spain, UN, Eu and OAS). Years of interfering in Haiti starting with the...
Greta Thunberg To Poor Countries: Drop Dead
by Ryan McMaken | Sep 27, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
On Monday, celebrity climate activist Greta Thunberg delivered a speech to the UN Climate Action summit in New York. Thunberg demanded drastic cuts in carbon emissions of more than 50 percent over the next ten years. It is unclear to whom exactly she was directing her...
Why Workers Don’t Need to be Protected from Automation
by Jean Vilbert | Sep 19, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
As this article shows, technology creates more jobs than it destroys – despite the claims to the contrary, innovation is a job creator, not a job demolisher”. But this issue keeps receiving attention. For example, Bill de Blasio’s “robot tax” idea and Andrew Yang’s...
Amazon is Burning?! It’s About Time We Called Capitalism For Help.
by Jean Vilbert | Sep 12, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
The Amazon is burning. This headline has crossed the world and received widespread media coverage. People everywhere have adhered to the broad claim and voiced their concerns about the planet’s future over social media. The most frantic ones marched in demonstrations...
Welfare State: Good Rhetoric, But Bad Outcomes
by Jean Vilbert | Sep 6, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
In poor countries, welfare state represents a system where businessmen and statesmen work side by side (to plunder money from the people) The idea of an economic model able to set an improbable combination of economic liberalism with central planning (a middle way...
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The “Least Performing” Circus Continues at the US Navy (and Elsewhere)
***Have been out of pocket for conference attendance*** The US Navy and the Pentagon continue the grand sclerotic and arthritic three ring circus of staggering inabilities to deliver any exquisite platforms on time, on budget and within scope. The sterling track...
Be Careful What You Ask for
You wanted America First. You got it. Did you think it wouldn't be conceived in national collectivist terms? The clue's in the name. It's America First, not Americans First.
Phony Noninterventionists
Call me naive, but I increasingly suspect that much of today's "left" is not antiwar on principle. Rather, it's anti-American war because, in its view, America (not just the government) is rotten to the core: bourgeois, racist, patriarchal, heteronormative, blah,...
America First is Always the Sober Alternative to War on the World
My shortest post ever. Ironic that Israel has more US senators than America.
My Views
I discuss the news around deportations, the military parade, No Kings, and Iran v Israel. ALP
Anti-War Blog – It’s Never Enough
It is hard to be up to date with any coverage for an ongoing war, especially in the social media age. Things move fast, the information that is real, verified, takes time to be confirmed and understood as factual. Lies, deception and sensationalism spreads fast, it’s...
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