When Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu was deposed in 1989, it is claimed that he pleaded for Jack Ramsay, a character Tom Selleck played in the 1984 Michael Crichton film, Runaway. The dictator was a fan of the film and in his desperation during the show trial may...
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State of the Union: Biden Says Beating China Should ‘Unite All of Us’
by Dave DeCamp | Feb 8, 2023 | News
In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Biden took aim at China and said winning the “competition” with Beijing should “unite all of us.”
1/27/23 Ted Snider on the Missed Opportunities to Avoid War in Ukraine
by Scott Horton | Feb 7, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Ted Snider is back to discuss his recent article for the Libertarian Institute. In it, Snider documents the many chances that were missed to avoid the war in Ukraine and a handful of opportunities to stop the war after Russia invaded. In this...
Rage Against the War Machine (Together!)
by Laurie Calhoun | Feb 7, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
The war in Ukraine has trundled on for nearly a year now, and it is hard to see an end in sight—barring nuclear conflagration. Stunningly, an increasing number of political leaders seem to believe that the outcome of the conflict will be “worth it," to invoke the...
The Missed Opportunities of the War in Ukraine
by Ted Snider | Feb 6, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Devastation has unfolded in Ukraine. As former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates say in The Washington Post, Ukraine’s “economy is in a shambles, millions of its people have fled, its infrastructure is being destroyed,...
1/27/23 Eric Margolis on the Rush to All Out War Over Ukraine
by Scott Horton | Jan 31, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Eric Margolis returns to the show to talk about the war in Ukraine. Scott reflects on some of his early interviews with Margolis about Ukraine back in 2014. Just as he had said back then, Margolis sees some disturbing parallels between the modern...
Ukraine Proves We Learned Nothing from the Vietnam War
by James W. Carden | Jan 30, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Today, January 27th, marks 50 years since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords which effectively ended American participation in the Vietnam war. One of the consequences, according to Georgetown University international affairs scholar Charles Kupchan, was that an...
1/27/23 Ted Snider: Were the Minsk Agreements a Lie?
by Scott Horton | Jan 29, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott talks with Ted Snider about former German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s recent claim that the Minsk agreements were never meant to bring peace to the Donbas. Merkel said that instead, they were implemented to give Ukraine time to build up its...
The New Arms Race Ep. 244
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jan 24, 2023 | Vital Dissent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scgmmjvhShM Patrick explores old family Cold War Civil Defense pamphlets, and talks about the growing new arms race that is ramping up between the US and its allies, Russia, and China. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my...
1/13/23 Bjorn Handeen on Using Local Politics to End the Wars
by Scott Horton | Jan 17, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott talks with Bjorn Handeen, a long-time listener who is now the Idaho Republican Party Region 1 Chairman. The two talk about Handeen’s efforts to translate his knowledge of American foreign policy into results by focusing on local politicians....
Netanyahu’s Return to Power: A Prelude to Anti-American Terrorism?
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Jan 10, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to power in Israel has ushered in a government more dominated by religious and ultra-nationalist extremists than any ruling coalition in the country’s 74-year history. While that fact has been well-reported, most Americans are oblivious to...
Happy New Year! (The Government Did Not Save Your Life)
by Laurie Calhoun | Jan 9, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
More than 100,000 persons died of narcotics overdoses last year in the United States, in many cases because the street drugs they used were laced with extremely potent fentanyl. If you were among the survivors of a dose of unknown provenance, the reason you are alive...
Ashli Babbitt’s Mother Arrested for Peaceful Protest While Her Murderer is Still Free
by Keith Knight | Jan 8, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
The mother of Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot while participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was arrested Friday afternoon for blocking traffic near the Capitol. Micki Witthoeft, 58, is charged with blocking and obstructing roadways,...
Will the War Party Wield the Speaker’s Gavel?
by Dan McKnight | Jan 5, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
We’re witnessing a fascinating thing: Congress is actually debating and voting on something. Remarkable! For the first time in a century—and only the second time since the Civil War—the vote for the next Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has entered...
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Black History Month?
If a Martian social scientist were to visit America, he surely would assume that Black History Month had been concocted by racists. And he'd be right -- for a racist qua racist need not bear ill will toward a particular group. What makes someone a racist is the very...
ESG in Canada
When I talk about ESG it isn’t out of concern for the corporations being regulated, it is out of concern as to how it affects the common man. While many dismiss my concern as a “conspiracy theory” cutting people off from their money and financial institutions is in...
ESG on The Courtenay Turner Podcast
My friend Courtenay Turner invited me on her podcast to get deep into ESG and why it matters.
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...
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