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Conflict in the 21st Century: A Dark and Robotic Future

by Bill Buppert | May 17, 2024 | Blog

I am delivering a talk at a professional organization in June 2024 on the 2020 Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict to illustrate the Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) of a future conflict that is dark and robotic. For those paying attention, the harnessing of sensors to...

Conserving the New Deal?

by Norman Singleton | May 8, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles

Jeffery Tyler Syck, assistant professor of political science at the University of Pikeville, is the latest conservative to urge the right to abandon—or at least modify—its commitment to free markets and constitutionally-limited government. In an article for The...

We’ve Always Known Standing Armies Are a Threat to Liberty

by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 2, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Thomas Gordon's A Discourse of Standing Armies; shewing the Folly, Uselessness, and Danger of Standing Armies in Great Britain, published in 1722, is a significant piece of literature in the canon of classical liberalism, critiquing the presence and role of standing...

Republicans: Israel Not Just First, But Before the First Amendment

by Scott Horton | May 1, 2024 | Blog

No matter how bad either side gets the other side can only try to outdo them. The Post: On Wednesday, they passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act, which its advocates said would empower the federal government to crack down on anti-Israel protests on campuses by...

One Killed in Explosion at Iraqi Base

by Will Porter | Apr 20, 2024 | News

One Iraqi militia fighter was killed and eight others injured after a large explosion rocked a military base south of Baghdad, Iraqi officials said.

FBI Records Link OKC Bomber to Bank Robbers, Suggesting Case is Still Unsolved

by Ken Silva | Apr 16, 2024 | Featured Articles, OKC

This Friday marks the 29th anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing, which killed at least 168 people, including 19 children in the deadliest domestic terrorist event in U.S. history. While that attack may seem like ancient history for some, one attorney in Utah...

Iran Launches Major Drone & Missile Attack on Israel

by Will Porter | Apr 13, 2024 | News

The Iranian military fired a massive barrage of drones and missiles targeting sites in Israel.

IRGC Seizes Israel-Linked Ship in Persian Gulf

by Will Porter | Apr 13, 2024 | News

Iranian commandos have seized a cargo vessel with reported ties to an Israeli billionaire, taking control of the ship as it sailed near the Strait of Hormuz.

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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...