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7/5/19 Nasser Arrabyee on the UAE’s Withdrawal From Yemen

by Scott Horton | Jul 8, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Nasser Arrabyee discusses the news that UAE troops will soon be pulling out of Yemen. Arrabyee speculates that the Emirati government might realize the international stance on the war is finally turning against the Saudi coalition, and they want to get out in time to...

US-Led Bombing Campaign in Syria Killed 1,600 Civilians and Left Raqqa ‘Most Destroyed City in Modern Times’: Study

by Steven Woskow | Apr 28, 2019 | Blog

Julia Conley at Common Dreams reviews the results from a study conducted by Amnesty International and Airwars. The report—"Rhetoric vs. Reality: How the 'Most Precise Air Campaign in History' Left Raqqa the Most Destroyed City in Modern Times"—is detailed on...

11/11/18 Andrea Carboni on an Accurate Estimate of the Death Toll in Yemen

by Scott Horton | Nov 12, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Andrea Carboni from ACLED Data comes on the show to talk about their casualty estimates for the war in Yemen. "10,000" is the number that has been used for the last few years, but that's exactly why it can't possibly be right. ACLED estimates that there have actually...

US Commander: US Airstrike ‘Probably’ Behind Mosul Civilian Death Toll

by Jason Ditz | Mar 29, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Says Bombs Should Not Have Collapsed the Buildings On March 17, US airstrikes against the city of Mosul leveled multiple buildings, killing in excess of 200 people, by most estimates. The Pentagon had long been very evasive about the incident so far, confirming they’d...

US Airstrikes Kill 22 Afghan Civilians in Helmand Province

by Jason Ditz | Feb 12, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

NATO Investigating 'Credibility' of Claims Village Homes Were Leveled by US Warplanes The deployment of US ground troops into the Helmand Province in recent weeks, aimed at slowing the expansion of the Taliban in the area, has also put the US troops back in direct...

During Obama’s Final Days, Hundreds of Civilian Deaths Passed Unremarked in Iraq and Syria

by Samuel Oakford | Jan 24, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Civilian casualties escalate in Mosul and Raqqa In the last weeks of the Obama presidency, the U.S.-led air war against so-called Islamic State intensified dramatically — leading to hundreds of likely civilian deaths. Yet in contrast to recent events at Aleppo,...

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Production for Profit Is Production for People, part 2

"In his capacity as a businessman a man is a servant of the consumers, bound to comply with their wishes. He cannot indulge in his own whims and fancies. But his customers’ whims and fancies are for him ultimate law, provided these customers are ready to pay for them....

Production for Profit Is Production for People

"Profit and loss can be expressed in definite amounts of money. It is possible to ascertain in terms of money how much an individual has profited or lost. However, this is not a statement about this individual’s psychic profit or loss. It is a statement about a social...

Pseudo-Liberalism

"The detractors of liberty are in this sense right in calling it a 'bourgeois' issue and in blaming the rights guaranteeing liberty for being negative. In the realm of state and government, liberty means restraint imposed upon the exercise of the police power. "There...

Freedom and Competition

"The freedom of man under capitalism is an effect of competition. The worker does not depend on the good graces of an employer. If his employer discharges him, he finds another employer. The consumer is not at the mercy of the shopkeeper. He is free to patronize...

Do You Really Meme It?

I was going to write a comment on some current discourse, the usual diatribe of impulsive viral outrage invented by those who live online. A reaction to trending tantrums. The usual produce from memetards who vomit digital junk the algorithms, whether one follows them...

“Mature Capitalism” Ain’t Capitalism

"It would be correct to describe this state of affairs in this way: Today many or some groups of business are no longer liberal; they do not advocate a pure market economy and free enterprise, but, on the contrary, are asking for various measures of government...

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Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania

by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...

Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

by Jim Bovard

Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...

The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger

by Joseph Solis-Mullen

Today the front pages and bookstores are filled with tales of the so-called "China Threat." From spy balloons to Fentanyl pipelines, genocide to dreams of world domination: CHINA! But is it all true? Is any of it? Now, for the first time, the speciousness of these and...

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civilian deaths

7/5/19 Nasser Arrabyee on the UAE’s Withdrawal From Yemen

US-Led Bombing Campaign in Syria Killed 1,600 Civilians and Left Raqqa ‘Most Destroyed City in Modern Times’: Study

11/11/18 Andrea Carboni on an Accurate Estimate of the Death Toll in Yemen

US Commander: US Airstrike ‘Probably’ Behind Mosul Civilian Death Toll

US Airstrikes Kill 22 Afghan Civilians in Helmand Province

During Obama’s Final Days, Hundreds of Civilian Deaths Passed Unremarked in Iraq and Syria

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Production for Profit Is Production for People

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“Mature Capitalism” Ain’t Capitalism

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