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Donald Trump vs The Constitution

by Rob Faust | May 16, 2018 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics

Donald Trump is a lot of things; a fan of the Constitution isn’t one of them. Throughout his relatively short time as president Donald Trump has verbally assaulted no less than five amendments. Most of these have come in the form of an ill-conceived tweet and haven’t...

TGIF: Trump and Syria

by Sheldon Richman | Apr 27, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman, TGIF

Let's face it: no one knows what Donald Trumps really wants to do in Syria. On a couple of occasions he's said he intends to withdraw U.S. military forces. Does he mean it? Or does he say such a thing only when he's in the mood to strike a populist pose? Who knows?...

US Presidents are No Match for the Deep State

by Marc Joffe | Apr 24, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Our three most recent Presidents were elected on relatively non-interventionist platforms but became decidedly more hawkish once in office. Although much is made of the exceptionalism of Donald Trump’s presidency, like George W. Bush and Barrack Obama before him, he...

How the Postal Service Loses So Much Money

by Justin Murray | Apr 18, 2018 | Economics, Featured Articles

Lately, when he isn’t trying to blame China on America’s competitiveness woes, President Donald Trump has become obsessed with the online retailer Amazon. While there’s speculation that Trump is using the reins of government to carry out a personal grudge because Jeff...

The Absurdity of Trump’s Syria Strikes

by Eric Schuler | Apr 16, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Last Friday night, President Trump launched cruise missiles against government facilities in Syria. His partners in the strike were France and the UK, leading to an appealing acronym for this trilateral band: the FUKUS coalition.* By all accounts, the strikes don't...

The Absurdity of Trump's Syria Strikes

by Eric Schuler | Apr 16, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

4/14/18 Gareth Porter on Trump’s bombing of Damascus

by Scott Horton | Apr 14, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Investigative reporter and historian Gareth Porter returns to the show to discuss Donald Trump's decision to bomb the Assad government in Damascus. Porter explains how the evidence has been repeatedly massaged to misconstrue what is ambiguous as what is clear—and that...

4/14/18 Gareth Porter on Trump's bombing of Damascus

by Scott Horton | Apr 14, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

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No Need for DOGE

We don't need a Department (sic) of Government Efficiency. (It's a nongovernment thing.) We need a "Department" of What the Hell Should the Government Be Doing in the First Place? Efficiency implies that you know the objective of a course of action and want to avoid...

Anti-War Blog – Osama Bin Laden won

Bin Laden Won He won and the US warmasters are celebrating. Imagine rejoicing after a government falls to the descendants of Al-Qaeda. We don’t have to because the Washington gang are doing just that. The Islamo-Fascist Jihadis who terrorised the minds of the West for...

We Can’t Consume Our Way to Prosperity

Once upon a time, John Stuart Mill could write these words truthfully ("Of the Influence of Consumption on Production," 1844): It is no longer supposed that you benefit the producer by taking his money, provided you give it to him again in exchange for his goods. He...

Pearl Harbor: Not What You May Think it Was

I have always had my doubts but Jane Shaw brings the receipts. RedDR needed the war because his communist takeover of America was failing bigly and a war empowered government like nothing else. A decade ago I began to research the history of the Pearl Harbor attack....

Anyone Can Be a Capitalist, part 2

"It might be argued that only the 'rich' can afford to be capitalists, i.e., those who have a greater amount of money stock. This argument has superficial plausibility, since ... for any given individual and a given time-preference schedule, a greater money stock will...

Anyone Can Be a Capitalist, part 1

"[A]ny man can be a capitalist if only he wants to be. He can derive his funds solely from the fruits of previous capitalist investment or from past 'hoarded' cash balances or solely from his income as a laborer or a landowner. He can, of course, derive his funds from...