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UK PM Theresa May Offers More Bad Solutions to Terrorism

by Eric Schuler | Jun 8, 2017 | Blog

UK Prime Minister Theresa May Continues to show how not to respond to terrorism in the wake of recent attacks in Manchester and London. First, she advocated for cracking down on the Internet, and now she has suggested that human rights laws could get in the way of...

1/27/17 Joseph Stromberg on the politics, protectionism and foreign policy of The New Deal

by Scott Horton | Jan 27, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Joseph Stromberg, an independent historian and writer, discusses how the Smoot-Hawley Tariff and worldwide protectionism ground the US economy to a halt in the 1930s; the enduring "accordion effect" of increasing government power and decline of civil liberties during...

FDR’s Internment Policies Haunt Us

by Jesse Walker | Nov 17, 2016 | Featured Articles, Justice

FDR's Wartime Violations of Civil Liberties Are Not a Good Precedent for Anything And you don't get points for not being as bad. Last night on The Kelly File, Carl Higbie, the spokesman for a pro-Trump PAC, defended the idea of a federal registry of Muslims by citing...

09/04/04 – Elaine Cassel – The Scott Horton Show

by Scott Horton | Sep 4, 2004 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott interviews Elaine Cassel of FindLaw, and the blog, Civil Liberties watch about her new book, The War on Civil Liberties: How Bush and Ashcroft Have Dismantled the Bill of Rights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PznSryfxFmU

07/03/04 – Elaine Cassel – The Scott Horton Show

by Scott Horton | Jul 3, 2004 | The Scott Horton Show

Philip Dru interviews Elaine Cassel of Civil Liberties Watch and FindLaw about her skeptical view of the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decisions in the Padilla, Hamdi, and Guantanamo cases. Her new book, The War on Civil Liberties: How Bush and Ashcroft Have Dismantled...

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Anti-War Blog – The gods of sadism

“(redacted) said that she felt gods presence next to her when she was in bed.. she knows that jesus watches over her. And he helped save her life. Whoops” “You should dress up as him (Jesus) when you see her.” The humour of rapists. Men close to power. Men of power....

Harry the Handbag’s House of Cards is About to Collapse

I loathe the British Royal family. I loathe the Markle couple and Harry the Handbag even more. Piers Morgan, love him or hate him, has done a standup and stunning expose on Meghan Markle’s financial skullduggery. AMEX is going to blow this terrible fraud complex to...

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The Kyle Anzalone Show: Sen. Schumer Touts Funding Genocide in Gaza, US Downs Iranian Drone Near Aircraft Carrier

A single clip can reveal the whole playbook. When a powerful senator calls military aid to Israel his “baby,” it says everything about priorities, leverage, and who pays the price. We pull the thread from that moment into the reality on the ground in Gaza, where a...

The Kyle Anzalone Show: Should We Believe Trump’s Truth Social Threats?

War planners love simple stories. Threaten, strike, and watch a “decisive” blow topple a hated regime. Today we peel back the layers on the rush toward Iran—what a decisive strike actually means, what the timelines look like from the Pentagon and Tel Aviv, and why air...

Capitalism Can’t Be Everything Its Foes Say It Is

"Nothing is more unpopular today than the free market economy, i.e., capitalism. Everything that is considered unsatisfactory in present-day conditions is charged to capitalism. The atheists make capitalism responsible for the survival of Christianity. But the papal...

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