Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
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Lunatic With a Plan: Erdogan and Turkey’s Economic Woes
by Tom Luongo | Dec 28, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since the first assault on Turkey’s finances in 2018, which I wrote about multiple times (here, here, and here), I’ve been the lone voice telling everyone that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a lunatic but he’s a lunatic with a plan. That plan is to de-dollarize the...
12/22/21 Gareth Porter on Iran and Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Dec 26, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott celebrates eleven years on the radio by interviewing Gareth Porter about Biden’s first year in office. They discuss the negotiations between the Administration and Iran over a return to the JCPOA. Despite many crossovers with the team that reached an agreement...
Women Are Responsible For Nearly Half Of Recent Gun Sales
by Steven Woskow | Sep 16, 2021 | Blog
SAN DIEGO— Close to half of all new U.S. gun buyers since the beginning of 2019 have been women, a shift for a market long dominated by men, according to a new study. The preliminary results from the 2021 National Firearms Survey, designed by Deborah Azrael of the...
Despite Withdrawal, U.S. Commits Billions to Fund Afghan Military
by Jason Ditz | Jun 7, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
U.S. troops leaving Afghanistan was meant to mark the end of the war in Afghanistan. As it stands, however, it seems that the administration is going through any hoops possible that might keep the war going and the US deeply invested in it. The latest sign of the...
More Interviews of Me
by Scott Horton | Jun 2, 2021 | Blog
Categorical Imperatives Talk World Radio - David Swanson Debunking Deep State Lies About the War on Terror! - Keith Knight
Episode 547: Marxism Part 4 – The Utter Brutality of Abimael Guzmán and the ‘Shining Path’
by Peter R. Quiñones | Mar 8, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
80 Minutes PG-13 Bird is one-fourth of the hosts of the Timeline Earth podcast. Bird "concludes" the series on Marxism talking about Peru's Abimael Guzman and the "Shining Path." Episode 539: Marxism Part 3 - The Thought of Mao Zedong Episode 534: Marxism Part 2 - The...
Episode 539: Marxism Part 3 – The Thought of Mao Zedong
by Peter R. Quiñones | Feb 17, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
84 Minutes Safe for Work Bird is one-fourth of the hosts of the Timeline Earth podcast. Bird joins Pete to go over the thought of Mao Zedong Episode 534: Marxism Part 2 - The Thought of Ioseb Besarionis dzе Jughashvili (Joseph Stalin) Episode 524: Marxism Part 1 -...
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The Business of America: War, War, War!
Sachs mentions Timber Sycamore which was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the CIA and supported by the United Kingdom and some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. The aim of the program was to remove Syrian president Bashar...
Mises on Wages under Capitalism
"While daily experience taught impressively that under capitalism real wage rates and the wage earners’ standard of living were steadily rising, while it became from day to day more obvious that the traditional walls separating the various strata of the population...
Anti-War Blog – Do They Really Know It’s Christmas?
Every year as the end of December crawls near, the spirit of Christmas grips those sometimes Christians, even atheists join in and celebrate it as a cultural habit and the true believers further confirm their faith. The spirit of celebration is one of joy, community,...
Winter Reading
Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton’s new book is shaking things up and making a stir all at once. Provoked: How Washington Started The New Cold War With Russia And The Catastrophe In Ukraine is a read it and weep. Or, for the War Party hacks, don’t read it;...
A Warhead That Could: The Extinction Event for Exquisite Military Platforms
Chalk up another crafty Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) to the Russian military. I am hoping the West has noticed the game changer that a conventional warhead on hyper-sonic IRBMs and ICBMs has changed the balance of power in near peer and peer combat for the...
Economics Is about Individual Choice
"The light which the economic theorist can throw on an economic process, or on the outcome of such a process, is viewed as deriving from his ability to relate back the process to the individual acts of choice of which the process is made up. Through the theorist’s...
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