Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
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For One Day, Protestors Stopped the War Machine
by Jim Bovard | Dec 27, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
I’ve attended most of the major antiwar protests in Washington since 9/11. At a 2005 protest, a cop tried to whack me on the head with a wooden pole. At a 2007 protest, I snapped a picture showing George W. Bush hanging next to the U.S. Capitol. But my favorite...
The Paradox of Authority
by Scott Shearin | Nov 22, 2021 | Blog
Every government in human history has eventually collapsed. Even Plato recognized this inevitability and theorized the average State lifespan was around 300 years. Must it be this way? Is it avoidable? Sadly, I don’t believe so. There is no resolution for the Paradox...
The Fed’s Big Flub Up
by Ron Paul | Nov 18, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
What do the Federal Reserve and neoconservatives have in common? They both refuse to admit that their policies—the neocons’ promotion of perpetual war and the Fed's manipulation of the money supply—are complete failures, having produced the opposite of the promised...
11/12/21 Hunter DeRensis on America’s History of Hating War Profiteers
by Scott Horton | Nov 13, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott is joined by Hunter DeRensis to discuss a recent longform article he wrote for The American Conservative. The article was the culmination of months of research DeRensis did on the history of the American public’s perception of weapons manufacturers. DeRensis...
Conscription: First Stop on the Road to Military Despotism
by Ryan McMaken | Nov 11, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The U.S. Senate continues to debate legislation potentially adding women to the military draft in the United States. This week, for instance, Senator Josh Hawley attempted to remove from the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act provisions requiring that “all...
Down With Fraudulent ‘Fair’ Trade
by Jim Bovard | Oct 21, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
The Biden administration is embracing the same flawed “fair trade” mantra that previous administrations used to sanctify protectionist policies. Biden’s team has “largely dispensed with the idea of free trade as a goal in and of itself,” the New York...
Don’t Draft Women (Or Men Either)
by Ryan McMaken | Oct 7, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
As in many previous years, this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is chock-full of terrible legislation slyly inserted for the purposes of concealing matters from the public. Both parties have been long guilty of this, with both groups using the NDAA to...
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163rd Anniversary of Stonewall Jackson’s Victory in the Battle of Front Royal
This is reprinted from Jim Bovard's blog and expands on a post originally from 2023. Today is the 163th anniversary of the battle of Front Royal, Virginia (the town near where I was raised). On May 23, 1862, almost all the Yankee soldiers in Front Royal were captured,...
Future Fish Apartments R Us
Aircraft carriers are the crossbow and chariot of the 21st century. Very expensive 20th century modalities not fit for purpose in 21st century peer naval combat. Carriers like the USS Ford can barely function but the sentence above applies to even best of class in...
End of the Road w/Gord
Gord is back discussing how trucking is the canary in the coal mine you need to be paying attention to. ALP
The DoD Rights a Wrong
Hell freezes over occasionally. On May 7, 2025, the Department of Defense published a memo in which it admitted in writing that the implementation of its covid shot mandate was unlawful. This echoes similar remarks made by Secretary Pete Hegseth in a video released on...
Dave DeCamp : Trump Speaks Directly w/ Putin. Is Peace Possible in Ukraine? – New Episode of The Kyle Anzalone Show
Dave DeCamp returns to the show to discuss Trump's foreign policy from Yemen to Ukraine. 1. Will Trump Help with the Genocide 2. Crossing Iran’s Redlines 3. Trump Talks to Putin and Zelensky 4. Pentagon Hides Casualties
Military Corruption Probe Gets a Four-Star Scalp
This picture shows him masked up for another robbery. He threw it all away for a $355k contract. This is the tip of the iceberg. A jury convicted former Vice Chief of Naval Operations ADM Robert Burke of four counts related to what prosecutors call a bribery scheme to...
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