For fiscal year 2021, the total United States military budget has come in at a staggaring $934 billion dollars, which includes a base budget of $636 billion dollars plus ancillary Department Of Defense spending and Veterans Affairs related expenses. This easily dwarfs...
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‘Incitement’ Is A Fake Crime
by Ryan McMaken | Feb 5, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Former president Donald Trump has been impeached for “incitement to insurrection.” The House Democrats’ claim is that Trump made an inflammatory speech which—a week later—led to the Capitol riot of January 6. The Senate is now considering whether or not to convict...
The Last Thing Burma Needs Is the U.S. Military
by Doug Bandow | Feb 4, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Sunday night—Monday morning in Burma (or Myanmar)—the Tatmadaw, or military, long noted for its venality and brutality, staged a coup. Troops detained Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s informal head of government, along with other leading members of her party....
News Roundup 2/3/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 3, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Biden undoes a late-Trump regulatory move that would have allowed doctors to more easily prescribe Suboxone to treat opioid disorders. [Link] The CDC says it can issue criminal penalties for travelers not wearing masks. [Link] The Pentagon declares climate...
2020 – The Longest Year of My Life In Review
by Peter R. Quiñones | Feb 3, 2021 | Libertarianism, Op Eds, Peter Quinones, Politics
A Requiem on Facts If you’ve ever heard me share my “origin story” you know that it’s a pretty common story for many. I was watching a 2007 presidential debate and this guy I had never heard of before, in the middle of the “War on Terror,” states plainly that the...
The Macabre ‘Normalcy’ of Joe Biden
by Connor Freeman | Feb 3, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
The laughable campaign sales pitch the American people were suffocated with over the past year and before was that Joe Biden, apartheid “Israel’s man in Washington” as well as the de facto author of the Patriot Act, was going save us from President Donald Trump’s...
The Prosecutors Are Coming
by William Anderson | Feb 1, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Politics
The violent protest at the U.S. Capitol on January 6 has long been over, but the upcoming Biden administration’s response to it is likely to do greater violence to the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law than anything the worst of the protesters could have...
The Miseducation of Antony Blinken
by Kenny MacDonald | Jan 27, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On January 19th, the U.S. Senate held confirmation hearings for Joe Biden’s Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken. Blinken has a reputation on both sides of the aisle for being exceptionally qualified for the job of America’s top diplomat, which is surprising...
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Israel’s Andersonville
The barbarian sadists that rule historic Palestine, here's what they do: "Just this week, two prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries, which unfortunately is a routine event," the physician said in the letter. He said inmates are fed through...
NY Times: Fed Money Printing Doesn’t Cause Price Inflation!
The New York Times ridiculously tries to obscure how the Fed’s mad money printing caused mad price inflation.
Why I Pick on Israel
People close to me ask why I criticize Israel while ignoring the other bad governments in the world. (I guess they don't count the U.S. government as bad.) I have many reasons, but here's a big one: no other government (besides the U.S. government) claims to act in my...
Jill Biden: Stop it now! Joe Biden: She did not mean ‘stop’ it.
I told her to be quiet.
War is the Health, Wealth and Death of the State
“War is the health of the state.The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany. There is work to be done to prevent this war of ours from passing into popular mythology as...
The Logic of Eradicating Hamas
Is genocide logically required by Israel's stated objective of eradicating Hamas? It looks that way. Israel demonstrably believes that to wipe out Hamas, it must use overwhelming and indiscriminate force in the Gaza Strip, killing tens of thousands, wounding and...
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