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US Approves Massive $15 Billion Arms Sale to Poland
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 28, 2023 | News
The State Department announced it authorized selling $15 billion in advanced air defense systems to Poland. The deal comes as Washington wants to increase NATO’s military presence in Eastern Europe. A press release distributed by the State Department on Wednesday...
The Myth of the ‘Good Leaker’
by Ryan McMaken | Jun 28, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Daniel Ellsberg died on June 16, and he remains one of the nation's most prominent whistleblowers who leaked secret government information to the public. Upon his death the general consensus among the writers of memorials for Ellsberg was that he was right to leak...
Lethal Drones at the U.S.-Mexico Border?
by Laurie Calhoun | Jun 27, 2023 | Featured Articles
Fentanyl has caused many overdose deaths in recent years, and much of it has entered the United States through Mexico. A number of politicians have thrown their support behind a proposal to officially label narcotics traffickers based in Mexico as “terrorists." Not...
An Archaeology of Nineteenth Century American Expansion
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 27, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Last week, context was added to Murray Rothbard’s assertion in Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy that American foreign policy underwent an abrupt shift during the second Cleveland administration (1893-1897). I argued that American foreign policy from...
Weaponization of Politics, an American Tradition
by Ron Paul | Jun 27, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics
President Donald Trump is hardly the first political figure who has had the legal and policy processes weaponized against him. In fact, there is a long and shameful history of U.S. politicians and bureaucrats weaponizing governmental powers against their political...
In Search of a New Abroad: Contextualizing Developments in U.S. Foreign Policy in the Late 19th Century
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 20, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Was America Destined to be an Empire? While Murray Rothbard is correct in Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy that “the great turning point of American foreign policy came in the early 1890s, during the second Cleveland administration,” this needs...
Daniel Ellsberg’s Courageous Work Remains Unfinished
by Jim Bovard | Jun 19, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
What if truth doesn’t win out until a million corpses too late? Daniel Ellsberg, one of the most heroic truth-tellers of our era, passed away on Friday at the age of 92. He risked life in prison to leak the Pentagon Papers during the Nixon administration. Ellsberg...
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The F35 Follies: The Cavalcade of Calamities Continues Part Infinity
So pardon me for a rather technical discussion that points out yet another flaw in the haunted and ridiculously poorly performing F35 program. Why was Shipborne Rolling Vertical Landing (SRVL) EXTREMELY important for the UK carriers? The SRVL capability needs as...
The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Ken Silva : Assassinations and Cover Ups
A near miss by millimeters, a sniper who waited, and a teenager’s digital footprint that should have set off alarms—our conversation with investigative reporter Ken Silva digs into the attempted assassinations against Donald Trump, the shooting of Charlie Kirk, and...
The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Matt Hoh: Could Israel Go Nuclear on Iran? And Will Trump Really Stop the Ukraine War?
What happens when conscience collides with command? We dig into the duty to refuse illegal orders, why “just following orders” isn’t a shield under U.S. military law, and how real-world pressures push service members toward compliance even when red flags are waving....
IDF Force Structure in Peril
I suspect the Israeli military force losses are even greater than they let on. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) last won a war in 1973; everything else has been a stalemate or a near-run defeat. This latest massacre machine against defenseless humans may be the last...
Marx Corrected
From each according to his freely undertaken contribution to the creation of wealth. To each according to the same.
Anti-War Blog – Cowardice of Mass Murder
In the immediate aftermath of a tragic event it’s difficult to find clarity of facts and thoughts through a miasma of lies, unknowns and emotions. The impulse to collectivise, derive explanation from demographic classification is both primal and learned. Just as the...
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