US News Biden administration officials are arguing that the US needs to fund the wars in Ukraine and Gaza to send a message to China in their pitch for Congress to authorize a massive $105 billion spending package that includes military aid for Israel, Ukraine, and...
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Netanyahu’s Support for Hamas Has Backfired
by Scott Horton and Connor Freeman | Oct 31, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Editor’s Note: This article was extended and updated on 11/10/23, including to reflect the latest tolls of death and destruction in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Intifada On October 7th, a large group of armed Hamas fighters broke out of the Gaza Strip to launch...
News Roundup 10/18/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 18, 2023 | News Roundup
Russia CNN reported Tuesday that the US has secretly provided Ukraine with Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS), munitions that typically have a range of about 190 miles and can be fired from the HIMARS rocket systems. AWC Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled...
Selling Your Soul, And Your Country
by Dan McKnight | Oct 16, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
What is treason? The U.S. Constitution defines “Treason against the United States” as “only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” “Enemies” is a high bar, and ought to be—the penalty for treason is death, after...
News Roundup 10/12/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 12, 2023 | News Roundup
Russia The US on Wednesday announced a new $200 million arms package for Ukraine that includes HIMARS ammunition, artillery shells, anti-tank weapons, and other equipment. AWC Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sent a request to Tel Aviv to coordinate a trip to...
It’s All About Provoking Your Reaction
by Scott Horton | Oct 12, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
So wise up! With terrorism, as with all asymmetric political action, "the action is in the reaction of the opposition," as Saul Alinsky, the leftist activist, put it in his book Rules for Radicals. This isn't conspiracy stuff, nor impossible "4th dimensional...
News Roundup 10/11/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 11, 2023 | News Roundup
Russia A recent poll found that the number of Ukrainians who want to fight Russia until the end of the war has fallen to 60%. President Volodymyr Zelensky has tight control over media in Ukraine, and his regime has targeted dissenters against fighting the war. The...
War Guilt in the Middle East
by Murray N. Rothbard | Oct 9, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
This article was originally featured in Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought, Spring-Autumn 1967 and is republished with permission of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. The trouble with sectarians, whether they be libertarians, Marxists, or...
Blog
The Waco Tragedy
Last year, I sat down with author David Hardy and filmmaker Dan Gifford for a 13-hour in-depth review of the ATF, FBI and US Army's slaughter of the Branch Davidians of Waco, Texas on this day in 1993. Also feat. James Tabor, Paul Fatta, David Thibodeau, Jim Bovard,...
TSA Gets a Raise
Are you bummed because inflation's got you again wit' yer broke ass? Well take heart. Federal Government employees are doing better than ever at your expense. So at least they've got that going for them.
Lexington and Concord: The Fire Begins
The divorce proceedings between London and America began on this day in 1775, 249 years ago. In Episode 011 of my podcast, I did a historical memorium to the events at Lexington and Concord. In honor of this day, give it a listen.
The “Israel Has the Most Moral Army in the World” Trope
Delusional supporters of Israel’s genocide in Gaza claim the IDF is “the most moral army in the world”. Here’s the stark reality.
Wheels Within Wheels: Complexity is Real in War
“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras...
F35 Fat Amy Follies: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
Two Trillion Dollars... Pretty soon, we're talking real money. So we put this in perspective: Two trillion U.S. dollars in $100 notes would be 1,356 miles high. If they were one dollar bills, it would be 135,600 miles high (the moon is 238,900 miles from Earth)....