Pyongyang accused the US military of conducting provocative surveillance flights which infringe on its airspace and trespass in its exclusive economic zone on Monday. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) admonished Washington that if such provocations...
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Biden Says Assad Must Go
by Connor Freeman | Jul 6, 2023 | News
While on the campaign trail, President Joe Biden spoke with some "Syrian American activists" who favor increased sanctions on the country as well as regime change in Damascus, during a private fundraiser in Maryland last month. According to neoconservative columnist...
GOP Pushes Back on White House Effort to Renew Intel Agencies’ Spying Tool
by Connor Freeman | Jul 5, 2023 | News
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, particularly in the GOP, are pushing back against the renewal of a law authorizing a tool used by US spy agencies, in the post 9/11 era, to conduct warrantless surveillance on foreign targets and Americans with whom they may be interacting.
Celebrate Fourth of July by Cussing Politicians
by Jim Bovard | Jul 3, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics
America was founded by rowdy folks who enjoyed nothing better than applying tar and feathers to British tax collectors. For a couple centuries, Independence Day was an occasion for raising a ruckus with firecrackers and plenty of other friendly detonations. But in...
Weaponization of Politics, an American Tradition
by Ron Paul | Jun 27, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics
President Donald Trump is hardly the first political figure who has had the legal and policy processes weaponized against him. In fact, there is a long and shameful history of U.S. politicians and bureaucrats weaponizing governmental powers against their political...
US Intel Community Hypes North Korean Nuke Threat, Concedes Pyongyang Will Not Use Weapons For Offensive Purposes
by Connor Freeman | Jun 26, 2023 | News
A National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) written in January which discusses Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons policy for the remainder of this decade was declassified by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines earlier this month. The document looks at a variety of...
My 40 Year War on Reefer Madness
by Jim Bovard | Jun 26, 2023 | Featured Articles
Forty years ago this week, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner published my first attack on the federal drug war. The previous year, the Reagan administration unleashed its "Just Say No" program, vilifying anyone who smoked a joint, sniffed the wrong powder, or used...
News Roundup 6/19/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 19, 2023 | News Roundup
Russia Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley predicted Thursday that Ukraine’s counteroffensive will be long and “very violent” following a meeting of military officials in Brussels. AWC A bipartisan group of US lawmakers introduced a piece of...
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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...
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...
Yes, UN Security Council Resolution 242 Is Legally Binding on Israel
Contrary to the claim made by ‘Destiny’ in a recent debate with Norman Finkelstein, UN Resolution 242 is legally binding on Israel.
The Israel Lobby Ain’t Shy
They are lots of things, but not that. Members of Congress’ far-left “Squad” who have championed Palestinians in the Middle East conflict are in danger of losing their seats in Democratic primaries. The efforts to remove Reps. Cori Bush of Missouri and Jamaal Bowman...
And Another Thing
One reason I object to Israel's behavior is that it brings anti-Semitic creeps out of the woodwork. Thanks a lot, Israel.
Production Precedes Distribution
The progress of civilization has meant the reduction of employment, not its increase. It is because we have become increasingly wealthy as a nation that we have been able to virtually eliminate child labor, to remove the necessity of work for many of the aged and to...
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