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Conservatives and Foreign Aid

by Laurence Vance | May 11, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

Conservatives maintain that they believe in the Constitution, limited government, private property, individual liberty, and the free market. Their actions when it comes to foreign aid show that they believe in none of those things. According to ForeignAssistance.gov...

Forget Foreign Aid — Adopt Free Trade Instead

by Ben Ramanauskas | Apr 3, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

In his recent Guardian article, David Cameron, the former UK prime minister and newly appointed Chair of the Commission on State Fragility, Growth and Development, argued that it is right for the United Kingdom to continue to give aid to developing and unstable...

Help That Hurts: The Case of US Food Aid

by Eric Schuler | Mar 22, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

President Trump's discretionary budget proposal includes a $182 million cut to the McGovern-Dole Food for Education program, eliminating the program entirely. Whatever else one thinks of Trump's budget, this is a good idea. It will save taxpayers a small amount of...

2/24/17 Grant F. Smith on the billions in yearly US aid to Israel, and the apologists who claim it’s no big deal for such a great US ally

by Scott Horton | Feb 24, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, discusses the $254 billion in inflation-adjusted US aid to Israel since 1949; the pro-Israel think tanks that try to hide Israel's large share of foreign aid by comparing it to US...

Purchasing Loyalty with Foreign Aid

by Jacob Hornberger | Nov 2, 2016 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

A dispute that is taking place between Saudi Arabia and Egypt indirectly demonstrates the nature of U.S. foreign aid. After dumping a walloping $25 billion in foreign aid to help the Egyptian military dictatorship’s economic woes, the Saudis are hopping mad. Why?...

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Proud mother come and see what your soldier sons are doing, see them search crying children who no longer can walk the streets to go from home to school. They kidnap little boys, to torture or imprison. Maybe they shatter their arms and send them on their way. Cry for...

The Culture of Lying and Deceit in the US Army

It's not just the Army and all the services practice this level of institutional cravenness and dishonesty. Deceit and covering up errors is a long time practice in the US uniformed armed forces. The article is older but more true over time. The gravest peril of the...

Manned Tanks: Stop Building These Things

Arguably one of the best manned tanks ever made, the refurbished M1 Abrams is not faring well in the Ukraine and it is estimated the UKR forces have lost 20 of the 31 tanks supplied to them. This is not only a result of inadequate training, immature doctrine and...

Lead-bottom: McHale’s Navy Comes of Age in the 21st Century

USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE-11) 2020 The US Navy continues to go the way of the Royal Navy from a storied force in history to a surface fleet plagued with problems and seemingly incapable of getting anything right as we have documented in these pages at the...

Interview: Biden’s Faux Ceasefire Efforts Facilitate Israel’s Genocide

I discuss the latest news about Israel and the US role in its conflicts with the Palestinians and Hezbollah.

Failing Upward: The USAF and the Woke Circus

Now the excuse for this apartheid memo is "aspirational" but flag officer notions of aspiration become iron law in the ranks below, it is the nature of the military hierarchy. The Supreme Court made this broad-based discrimination in 2022 for officer selection illegal...

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Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

by Jim Bovard

Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...

The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger

by Joseph Solis-Mullen

Today the front pages and bookstores are filled with tales of the so-called "China Threat." From spy balloons to Fentanyl pipelines, genocide to dreams of world domination: CHINA! But is it all true? Is any of it? Now, for the first time, the speciousness of these and...

Questioning the COVID Company Line: Critical Thinking in Hysterical Times

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Conservatives and Foreign Aid

Forget Foreign Aid — Adopt Free Trade Instead

Help That Hurts: The Case of US Food Aid

2/24/17 Grant F. Smith on the billions in yearly US aid to Israel, and the apologists who claim it’s no big deal for such a great US ally

Purchasing Loyalty with Foreign Aid

Blog

Anti-War Blog – Be Proud

The Culture of Lying and Deceit in the US Army

Manned Tanks: Stop Building These Things

Lead-bottom: McHale’s Navy Comes of Age in the 21st Century

Interview: Biden’s Faux Ceasefire Efforts Facilitate Israel’s Genocide

Failing Upward: The USAF and the Woke Circus

Podcasts

Shop Our Books

Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger

Questioning the COVID Company Line: Critical Thinking in Hysterical Times

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