On Conflicts of Interest #32, Kyle covers the recent personnel changes at the Pentagon. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper was expected to resign but was first fired by Trump. Other staff leaving their post includes the acting Secretary for policy. The changes are...
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News Roundup 11/10/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 10, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Joe Biden plans to spend $11 trillion over ten years. [Link] A new poll shows 68% of Americans want to legalize marijuana. [Link] Trump fired Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. [Link] South Korea expects the US to pay more of the cost of deploying troops to...
We Need To Talk About the National Defense Strategy, Part I: Syria
by Connor Freeman | Nov 8, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Who remembers voting for all this brinksmanship with China and Russia? It’s time we had one of those “national conversations,” we’re incessantly admonished to have by teachers, feds and talking heads. Only this conversation should be about the National Defense...
Gun Control and Racism: The Laws and Taxes Meant to Limit Minority Gun Ownership in America
by Sam Jacobs | Nov 4, 2020 | Politics
“There’s a direct correlation between gun control and black people control.” Stacy Swimp, President of the Frederick Douglass Society Every schoolchild knows that the Declaration of Independence declares that the basic equality of man is “self-evident.” The United...
News Roundup 11/4/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 4, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Votes continue to be counted as no one has made a call on the winner of the presidential race. Votes in GA, NC, PA. MI, WI, NV, and AK are being tallied. [Link] The Department of Justice released some of Muller’s memos from the investigation. The interviews...
Cultural Superiority Isn’t Racism: Why Western Values Underpin the World’s Best Countries
by Sam Jacobs | Nov 3, 2020 | Foreign Policy, Politics
A view of Western culture as being uniquely valuable is radically different from racism.
Who’s Racist? The Continuing Tragedy of American Exceptionalism
by Connor Freeman | Nov 3, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Many young liberals truly believe that by voting for Joe Biden they’re somehow helping evict racism and fascism from the Oval Office. If only it were that easy. This columnist is thinking, in particular, of an illustrative, albeit anecdotal example. A recent...
How Trump’s China Trade War Failed
by Brad Polumbo | Oct 31, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
President Trump was elected on an anti-trade agenda in 2016, and promised that tariffs and protectionist measures could restore the US manufacturing sector. After winning the White House, the president imposed tariffs on hundreds of billions of dollars worth of...
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RIP Shinzo Abe
Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated yesterday, in a country with a long history of nonviolence post-World War II, which Abe himself attempted assiduously to reverse. Hegemonic Spread and Lethal Creep: The Case of Japan
Should the U.S. Be Sending Weapons to Ukraine? Scott Horton vs. Cathy Young at the Soho Forum
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The Antiwar Comic: It Never Ends
And it only cost us millions of wasted tax dollars! More comics at the Webcomic Factory!
New Book, Hotter Than the Sun, Out Now!
Hotter Than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Scott Horton interviews Daniel Ellsberg, Seymour Hersh, Gar Alperovitz, Hans Kristensen, Joe Cirincione and more. This book contains interviews conducted over more than a decade with experts of all descriptions —...
Climate Lockdowns Are Here
In a development that has been widely broadcast for decades (to those tuned to the correct frequency), Western countries have begun implementing the next step in the government-by-emergency manual. Indeed, once the public allows government to immolate its...
Substantive Due Process
[T]he conservatives reject substantive due process, which they see as a contradiction in terms that authorizes judges to legislate. If the term sounds odd, it would be odder still to dismiss the idea. As Roger Pilon writes, “By ‘law’ [in due process of law] the...
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