On COI #385, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover top Russian diplomats’ dire warnings that all of Russia’s “red lines” have been crossed and war with the US is close, how Washington’s balloon hysteria further damaged U.S.-China relations, and new sanctions levied...
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News Roundup 2/16/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 16, 2023 | News Roundup
Russia The Washington Post reported on Monday that Biden administration officials say they want to help Ukraine retake as much territory as it can from Russia over the next few months before they sit down at the negotiation table with Russian President Vladimir Putin....
News Roundup 2/14/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 14, 2023 | News Roundup
US News A government watchdog estimates nearly $200 billion in pandemic unemployment insurance payments may have been misspent. The Hill Majid Khan, a detainee at the Guantánamo Bay torture prison, was released to Belize. NPR Russia NATO Secretary-General Jens...
News Roundup 2/13/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 13, 2023 | News Roundup
US News A bipartisan group of lawmakers in the House and Senate introduced a bill Thursday that would repeal the congressional authorizations for the use of force from the 1991 and 2003 Iraq wars. Responsible Statecraft The US Air Force has test-launched a Minuteman...
So Much Hot Air: The (Fake) China Threat Strikes Again!
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Feb 13, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Now that a few days have passed and the hysteria has come down slightly, perhaps a few sane thoughts might be added to what has otherwise been a microcosm of everything that is wrong with America’s warmongering media and political class. As everyone is by now well...
2/10/23 Patrick MacFarlane on the Balloon Panic
by Scott Horton | Feb 12, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott is joined by Patrick MacFarlane to talk about the alleged Chinese balloon that captured the American news cycle a week ago. MacFarlane wrote a piece for the Libertarian Institute digging into the details and arguing against the fearmongering...
US Carries Out ICBM Test
by Will Porter | Feb 11, 2023 | News
The US Air Force has test-launched a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the primary land-based strategic weapon in America’s nuclear arsenal. The Pentagon hailed the trial as a success, declaring that the display of military might shows Washington is “willing to defend peace across the globe.”
US Military Shoots Down Unidentified ‘Object’ Near Alaska
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 11, 2023 | News
The White House claimed the Pentagon downed an unknown object off the coast of Alaska. The Joe Biden administration downplayed the incident claiming the craft was only shot down as a precaution.
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Corruption-A-Go-Go: Taliban Continues to Receive US Funding
The US State Department needs to be disbanded and all overseas embassies should be converted to ATM-style kiosks. The Taliban has just received 239 million debt-bucks in US State Department aid. 239 millions dollars. The disaster in Afghanistan continues to cascade...
Further China Reading
From a reader: “Hello Joseph. I just ordered your book, and I noticed it was short. I would like to know if there is an up to date book on American foreign policy towards China that you could recommend that is well-researched and truthful with good policy suggestions....
Raptor Woes Continue to Plague the Air Force
More mismanagement and strategic deficit disorder at the Pentagon. The F22 Raptor is a very capable late 20th century aircraft and arguably superior to the much more expensive and increasingly anachronistic F35; it is being put out to pasture early because of...
Anti-War Blog – What Will You Do On The Day After?
They did it, finally. The wisdom of the statists, the planet ruined. Desolation, misery, nature blackened to near extinction. The whispering legacy of civilisation. The educated mastery of science and technology used to destroy it all, everything. They called it...
Is the Medal of Honor Now Subject to Woke Revisionism?
Note: We just returned from a short vacation visiting new grandchildren hence the brief interregnum of posting. The Medal of Honor is the highest citation for combat action in the US military. It's premature to say exactly what direction this is going because the DoD...
6 Hours of Scott Horton: On with Smith, Murphy, Woods & Russell
Scott's been making the libertarian podcast rounds with our friends Dave Smith – the very failed comedian – the great economist and successful comedian (on Twitter) Bob Murphy, historian and email marketing master Tom Woods, and Clint Russell of the Liberty Lockdown...
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