The Constitution imposes rules about how the United States is to enter a war, and the Trump administration has violated those rules in Syria. THE PRESIDENT AND WAGING WAR Under the Constitution, the Founders intentionally prohibited the Executive branch from having...
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Against War in Syria
by Jeff Deist | Apr 13, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
By the Editors of the Ludwig von Mises Institute: President Donald Trump has announced that he plans new missile strikes against the Syrian regime in response to an alleged chemical attack on Syrian civilians in a rebel-held suburb of Damascus. The US has offered no...
And the Award for the Worst Puppeteer Ever Goes to …
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 12, 2018 | Blog, Foreign Policy
Vladimir Putin.
Insyriated (2017): What Not To Conclude
by Laurie Calhoun | Apr 9, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Available among recent releases to watch for free on Sky Movies right now is Insyriated (2017), a Belgian film directed by Philippe van Leeuw, which is set in the midst of the current civil war raging in Syria. The film could just as well have been called "Iniraqated"...
US Troops Will Remain in Syria Despite Trump Comments to Contrary
by Patrick Cockburn | Apr 5, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Donald Trump has decided to keep US forces in Syria for a limited period, ending speculation about an immediate pull-out fuelled by the president himself. He agreed at a National Security Council meeting that the 2,000 US troops backed by massive airpower should stay...
The West Should Avoid Starting a New Cold War with Russia
by Doug Bandow | Apr 3, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
President Donald Trump entered office with praise for Russian President Vladimir Putin and support for improving Washington-Moscow relations. A year later President Trump surprised even his aides by congratulating Putin on the latter’s reelection and suggesting a...
3/30/18 Trita Parsi on how Trump is pushing Iran toward a nuclear bomb
by Scott Horton | Mar 30, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Trita Parsi returns to the show to discuss his latest article for Foreign Policy, "Blame Trump When Iran Races for the Bomb." Parsi says Trump is using the Iran Deal as a negotiating chip with North Korea and explains how the message might incentivize other...
Free Market Thinkers Have Stopped Thinking
by Craig Cantoni | Mar 27, 2018 | Economics, Featured Articles
Anthropologists say that humans became human about 200,000 years ago. Evolutionists say this was the result of a million years or so of evolution. Creationists say it was the result of creation. For purposes of this commentary, it doesn’t matter who is right. What...
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Bang for Your Buck: Breaking the Bank to Upgrade the Nuclear Arsenal (Part II)
In Part I, I discussed and critiqued an overview of the new efforts to update the US nuclear arsenal. Here, we'll chat (again) about the Sentinel which is the improved replacement for the aging Minuteman III ICBM and it is already in trouble with the schedule sliding...
Company Men: Former Spies Spill The Tea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElMSJDkqSYQ&t=3757s Danny Jones recently hosted former CIA officers John Kiriakou and Andrew Bustamente for a wide-ranging discussion that touched on torture, 9/11 & terrorism, domestic politics, foreign policy and what it’s...
Bang for Your Buck: Breaking the Bank to Upgrade the Nuclear Arsenal (Part I)
The United States is on track to spend the equivalent of more than two Manhattan projects per year in one of the most expensive nuclear arms races in history. The US has not done a recorded air breathing nuclear detonation since 1992 (the last US test, Julin-Divider,...
Israel’s Criminal Assault on Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza: ‘Israel killed my grandmother!’
Israel has twice assaulted the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, leaving behind horrifying death and destruction, and no evidence of a Hamas headquarters.
The Spirit Dissolves: Imminent B2 Retirement
Stealth is a buzzword, please keep in mind that long wave radars detects the minuscule radar cross sections of "stealth" platforms. It can still be detected by a sufficiently powerful radar or at sufficiently close ranges. Dual-band radars are more effective against...
Icebreaker Follies: The US Continues to Drive to Zero
The Navy did have 1.5 icebreakers and now they have half of one. Well, actually, the US has no operational icebreakers now. The Coast Guard’s other icebreaker, the ancient heavy Polar Star, is undergoing a service life extension program at the Mare Island Dry Dock in...
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