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Regime Change & The Making of Fidel Castro

by Derek Franklin | Apr 22, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Thursday, April 19, 2018 marked the arrival of a new president of Cuba -- Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez. The New York Times refers to Mr. Miguel Díaz-Canel as "the handpicked successor" to Raúl Castro and someone who is "virtually unknown." Raúl Castro, the man Miguel...

Regime Change & The Making of Fidel Castro

by Derek Franklin | Apr 22, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Tariffs Are Not the Answer

by Ron Paul | Mar 12, 2018 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

President Trump’s planned 25 percent tariff on steel imports and 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports may provide a temporary boost for those industries, but the tariffs will do tremendous long-term damage to the American and global economies. Tariffs raise the price...

Capitalism’s Biggest Enemies Are Capitalists

by Randall Holcombe | Jan 24, 2018 | Economics, Featured Articles

For most of human history, mankind’s standard of living remained perilously close to a bare subsistence level. Then, a few hundred years ago, capitalism brought with it the Industrial Revolution that has generated unprecedented economic progress. Capitalism is by far...

7/17/17 Kelley B. Vlahos: the Insidious Nuclear Weapons Industry

by Damon Hatheway | Jul 18, 2017 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show

Kelley B. Vlahos joins Scott to discuss her latest article on the failures of the nuclear weapons industry for the American Conservative Magazine, "Dr. Strangelove and the Los Alamos Nuclear Fiasco". Vlahos details how the government has corporatized nuclear labs with...

Massive Corporate Consolidation of Local Media Underway

by James Holbrooks | May 13, 2017 | Blog

In a deal that will allow one broadcasting company to reach 72 percent of U.S. households, it was reported this week that Sinclair Broadcast Group is buying Tribune Media for nearly $4 billion. Such a move wouldn’t have been possible a few weeks back, but...

The US Tax Code: Welfare for Accountants

by Eric Schuler | Apr 4, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

The US income tax system has earned an appropriately notorious reputation. Each year around this time, Americans go through the unpleasant tradition of gathering up their paperwork, transferring numbers from one set of government forms to another, and answering...

Steve Bannon Believes Winter Is Coming

by Dan Sanchez | Feb 15, 2017 | Featured Articles, Politics

"History is seasonal and winter is coming.” No, that’s not a Game of Thrones quote. It’s the last line of a 2010 documentary called Generation Zero, written and directed by Steven K. Bannon. Perhaps you’ve heard of him. Bannon is President Donald Trump’s senior...

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Corruption, NGO’s, and Government Function w/John Weeks

John joins me to discuss USAID, NGO's, the shutdown strategy, and ANTIFA.

The Balance of Pride and Self-Preservation

There is a conflict for fighters to endure. Not the most obvious of overcoming oneself, the obstacles leading to competition or the opponent. Finding the balance between pride and self preservation. Too much pride, means we become reckless. Brave but stupid. We take...

Ten Million Dollar Payday for a Shabby Memoir

The DNC/CPUSA union affiliates will buy pallets of these worthless books...

Two Years: Gaza Leveled and America on the Table

Today is the second year anniversary of the 7 October 2023 attack from Gaza into Israel and the response that will forever stain the reputation of Israel and any nations planet-wide that support the reaction. In the aftermath, I did an extensive series on a...

New York Times Deceptions about the Two-State Solution and Rise of Hamas

The New York Times’ reporting serves to manufacture consent for the US government’s support for Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians.

Contours of The Global Imperial Architecture

Antiwar.com recently published an article jointly written by Institute Director Scott Horton and this author (Weeks). The piece, “Strategic Treason: The Empire Fetes Man Who Killed US Troops,” discussed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s trip to New York City, which...

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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...

Questioning the COVID Company Line: Critical Thinking in Hysterical Times

by Laurie Calhoun

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