Download Episode. Next on Antiwar Radio this week was Kelley Beaucar Vlahos of Responsible Statecraft. Scott and Vlahos talk about Zelensky’s visit with Biden and address to Congress on Wednesday. The visit highlighted the evolving politics of aid to Ukraine and...
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Section 230 Is a Subsidy for Surveillance
by Jeffrey Wernick | Dec 19, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet is a nice book title. It might even be an interesting read. But it is also false. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He stated that the power of the Web was its universality as a permissionless, decentralized,...
Joe Biden, Executor-In-Chief
by Jim Bovard | Dec 7, 2022 | Featured Articles
On July 4, President Biden declared, “Liberty is under assault…rights we assumed were protected are no longer.” Biden, however, was referring solely to a few Supreme Court decisions he deplored, not to the federal supremacy he championed for almost 50 years in the...
College Graduates Are the New Favored Class of Democratic Largesse
by Jim Bovard | Nov 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
When Americans make lists of the persecuted, downtrodden groups in our society, college graduates rarely top the ranking. But President Joe Biden is offering one bribe after another to convert college graduates into perpetual dependents of the Democratic Party....
Vote Buying Surges in Advance of Georgia Runoff
by Jim Bovard | Nov 23, 2022 | Featured Articles, Politics
President Joe Biden is tottering on the edge of his most inefficient vote-buying binge yet. As the runoff race for Georgia’s Senate seat enters its final weeks, the Biden administration may rubberstamp a nationwide handout to snare a handful of Peach State ballots....
Pentagon Vows To Support Ukraine for ‘As Long As It Takes,’ Launches New Command
by Connor Freeman | Nov 5, 2022 | News
The Pentagon announced that it is setting up a new command, based in Germany, to oversee the training and equipping of Ukraine’s military during its fight with Russia, the New York Times reported on Friday. The command is named Security Assistance Group-Ukraine, or SAG-U.
Biden, Our Boneheaded Chip Czar
by Jim Bovard | Nov 2, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
Jubilation erupted in Washington this summer as politicians lurched towards commandeering a key swath of the American economy. Congress passed Biden-backed legislation known as the Chip Act to spend $52 billion subsidizing semiconductor production. A Washington Post...
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Our WritersScott is director of the Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio on 90.7 FM KPFK in L.A. and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He’s the author of Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism, Fool’s Errand:...
‘Fletch’ Lives in the Courageous Pen of Reporters
by Kym Robinson | Oct 17, 2022 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
“I must follow the journalistic instinct of being skeptical of everything until I personally have proved it true.”- Irwin Fletcher In the post-Watergate world, fiction was full of lone wolf reporters, the courageous typewriter and camera that pointed where it was...
Don’t Let Biden’s Attempted Vaccine Mandate Fall Down the Memory Hole
by Jim Bovard | Oct 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
If you pick up a COVID infection during your next visit to a hospital or medical office, maybe send a thank-you card to President Biden. His COVID vaccine mandate was one of the most perverse public-health edicts in modern times. Vaccination status went from being a...
The Justice Department Pressured USA Today to Stop Publishing Me
by Jim Bovard | Jun 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
In 2015, Justice Department press chief Brian Fallon bitterly complained to USA Today editors about my articles walloping Attorney General Eric Holder, including"Eric Holder's Lawless Legacy," [Feb. 3, 2015] and "Eric Holder's Police Shooting Record? Dismal," [Aug....
‘Assault Weapons’ Ban: First Step on the Road to Tyranny
by Jim Bovard | Jun 6, 2022 | Featured Articles
President Joe Biden is seeking to revive his presidency by demolishing the Second Amendment. In a televised address last Thursday, Biden called for a ban on assault weapons, which he portrayed as the epitome of evil. Vice President Kamala Harris caterwauled that...
Henry Kissinger Says Ukraine Should Cede Territory to Russia to Achieve Peace
by Dave DeCamp | May 27, 2022 | News Roundup
Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on Monday said that Ukraine should cede to Russia the territory Moscow and the Donbass separatists controlled before invading to end the war and called for negotiations.
Don’t Fall for the ‘National Service’ Scam
by Jim Bovard | Feb 7, 2022 | Featured Articles
In the wake of America’s disastrous Civil War, the Thirteenth Amendment was enacted to prohibit involuntary servitude. Unfortunately, top newspapers, pundits, and think tanks are now campaigning to nullify that prohibition. Apparently, slavery was evil not because of...
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Reminder: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Almost Started a World War Based on a Lie
On November 15th, the Associated Press reported that "A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people". Since Poland is a member of the North American Treaty Organization, that would mean that America along...
Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
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