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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...

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...

The Sordid Truth about Tuition Loans

by Craig Cantoni | Jan 27, 2017 | Blog

Want to know the truth about student loans? Good luck. As with so many emotionally-loaded and politically-charged issues of the day, it’s nearly impossible for someone to know the full truth about student loans. By the time the issue is run through the propaganda...

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The Family Will Never Get Over It – Anti-War Blog

The Middle East Eye reports of desperate screams as Muhammad Bhar, a 24-year old Palestinian man with down syndrome was attacked by Israelil military dogs. The IDF soldiers watched on as the animals mauled the helpless Muhammad. He was then left to die from his...

Assassin Murders Bystander

Twenty Year old Thomas Mathew Crooks murdered a bystander and injured others in an attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. Trump suffered, a bullet injuring his ear. The killer was shot dead by a secret service counter sniper. The crowd...

Kyle Anzalone on Judge Nap: The Hannibal Directive

Check out Kyle’s latest appearance on Judge Napolitano’s show, ‘Judging Freedom,’ where they discuss recent reporting by Haaretz suggesting Israel's military repeatedly invoked the infamous 'Hannibal Directive' during Hamas' October 7 attack. The Hannibal policy calls...

US Government Teachers: The Overseas Army of Marxian Educators

When I was active duty and deployed overseas, we thankfully home educated our children because the Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) is just as rancid and immoral as the government schools in CONUS. They lied, the DoDEA did not cancel their IED...

Interview: Julian Assange Freed + Palestine’s Ancient History

Mike Leavitt and I discuss the US government’s criminalization of journalism and the pre-Israel history of Palestine.

They Will Want Boys and Men again… Anti-War Blog

The war pigs mount one another in squeals calling for blood as the drums of death beat to their cries. They want your boys and men...again. As war looms and imperial ambitions swell, the non-binary, obese, depressed, expecting mothers (or baby carrying persons) and...

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