Washington and Manila are close to inking an agreement that would see four new American installations opened in the Philippines. The new sites are part of a US military buildup in the Indo-Pacific to prepare for war with China.
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Kamala Harris Blunders Philippines Visit, Stirs Conflict with China
by Nickie Deahl | Nov 30, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Vice President Kamala Harris visited the Philippines last week in what can only be described as three days of warmongering, hypocrisy, and another huge provocation against China. Harris spent her time spouting empty platitudes of affirmation regarding U.S. defense...
Foreign Actors Behind the Revolutionary Curtain
by Peyton Gouzien | Oct 19, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Libertarians are quick to support revolutions, especially the American Revolution, as popular uprisings against a tyrannical regime. It is a narrative that allows one to believe that certain political movements are on the “right side of history." They are often rare...
It’s Time To Cut the Philippines Loose
by Nickie Deahl | Dec 22, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte once again extended the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States after flip-flopping on the issue twice this year. The Trump Administration missed the chance to call Duterte’s bluff and end the one-sided agreement....
News Roundup 2/28/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 28, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Senator Rand Paul says he has the support of Trump on changes to the FISA court to prevent it from authorizing surveillance of Americans. [Link]Joe Biden claimed several times to have been arrested in apartheid South Africa while supporting Nelson Mandela. No...
The Philippine War on Drugs Has Murdered Thousands – World Liberty Weekend
by Luke Henderson | Jul 18, 2019 | Blog
The death count by the Philippine police in the name of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs makes the United States’ numbers seem like a grain of rice. Government officials claim that over 5,000 drug dealers, which they claim all fought police, have been killed,...
Episode 259: The Federalist.com Pulls a Defense of a Murderous Dictator
by Peter R. Quiñones | May 15, 2019 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
36 Minutes PG-13 The Federalist published an article entitled, "Why The Philippines Needs President Duterte’s Harsh Treatment Of Drug Cartels," on 5/10/19 by Seaborn Hall and within a couple hours pulled it. Thankfully, it is still available on Archive.org and Pete...
The Deadly and Destructive Futility of the Drug War
by Jacob Hornberger | Apr 10, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Ever since President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs in the 1970s, advocates of this government program, both conservative and liberal, have argued that the only reason why the U.S. government has failed to win the drug war is that government officials have failed...
Pearl Harbor, Truth, And Government
by Zack Sorenson | Sep 16, 2018 | Blog
Did FDR "do" Pearl Harbor? Is Global Warming "fake"? Big complicated ideas can be easily framed to one side or another through sophistry. But what is "truth"? I have been a "obviously the Roosevelt administration sought a policy of provoking Japan into war, but Bob...
Should the DEA Assassinate Drug Offenders?
by Jacob Hornberger | Dec 9, 2017 | Featured Articles
Ever since President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs, proponents of this massive federal program have lamented its manifest failure. If only officials would just “crack down” in the war on drugs, drug-war advocates have exclaimed over the years, we could finally...
Killing of 17-Year-Old Galvanizes Opposition to Duterte’s Drug War
by Marko Marjanovic | Aug 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
When the Philippine drug was brought back this March it wasn't supposed to be like this. Supposedly the police hoped the second stage of the resurrected drug war would be all but bloodless. After all Duterte had already fulfilled his promise of a lethal drug war. The...
Killing of 17-Year-Old Galvanizes Opposition to Duterte's Drug War
by Marko Marjanović | Aug 28, 2017 | Featured Articles
When the Philippine drug was brought back this March it wasn't supposed to be like this. Supposedly the police hoped the second stage of the resurrected drug war would be all but bloodless. After all Duterte had already fulfilled his promise of a lethal drug war. The...
News Roundup 6/13/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 13, 2017 | Blog
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rules against Trump's travel ban. [Link] Senate Democrats will join with Rand Paul in opposing a weapons sale to Saudi Arabia. The vote on the weapons sale could occur this week. [Link] Alexei Navalny and over 1000 other protesters...
News Roundup 5/19/17
by Kyle Anzalone | May 19, 2017 | Blog
Ray McGovern explains former FBI Director Mueller's love for mass data collection. [Link] Only 6% of those arrested by ICE since Trump took office are convicted violent criminals. [Link] Philippines President Duterte has imposed a countrywide ban on public smoking....
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Roland Fryer’s Shocking Conclusion
https://youtu.be/2nLWCLsmpJ4 On the most extreme use of force – officer-involved shootings – we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account. We argue that the patterns in the data are consistent with a model in which...
The US Government Has Been Lying About How to Lose Weight for Decades
https://youtu.be/TUADs-CK7vI Fat Fiction Movie Website Research by Ann F. La Berge: How the Ideology of Low Fat Conquered America Turns out a low-carb diet does far more to help people lose weight than a low-fat diet.
The “Rich Get Richer” Myth
Some 94 percent of Americans who reach “top 1 percent” income status will enjoy it for only a single year. Approximately 99 percent will lose their “top 1 percent” status within a decade. Now consider the top 400 U.S. income-earners—a far more exclusive club than the...
The Non-Existent Difference Between National Socialism and Democratic Socialism
Summary: National Socialism and Democratic Socialism both advocate institutionalized violence by the state against peaceful people only differing in rhetoric. The most popular self described Democratic Socialists in America today are Senator Bernie Sanders and...
A Response to My Memorial Day Critics
My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...
Ignoring Political Gossip & Sticking to Principle
https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...
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