2023 was another godsend for cynics. Here’s a round-up of my zestiest lines from my articles in the past year. Some lines were tweaked for this collection. Hearty thanks to Hunter DeRensis and editors at other outlets who ran those articles up the flagpole. "Telling...
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Wilson’s Folly, the Washington Hegemon and Why There Is Still No Peace on Earth
by David Stockman | Jan 2, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Another Christmas and there is still no peace on earth. And the proximate cause of that vexing reality is the $1.3 trillion warfare state planted on the banks of the Potomac—along with its web of war-making capabilities, bases, alliances and vassals stretching to the...
James R. Webb Resigns from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Campaign
by Scott Horton | Dec 29, 2023 | Blog
Here is his resignation letter: Mr. Kennedy, I am writing you a personal email to call your attention to something that is both potentially damaging in terms of veterans support and something I cannot abide. When you and Mr. Kucinich called me in late August 2023...
They Always Kill Children
by Kym Robinson | Dec 20, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“Why is the World Silent?” - Chaim Kaplan Humanity has endured self-inflicted savagery for all its history. Modern civilizations have apparently transcended above the primal savagery of ancient barbarity, yet despite technology allowing us to peer in with a voyeur's...
12/14/23 Erik Sperling on Why the Saudi War in Yemen is Truly Over
by Scott Horton | Dec 18, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Erik Sperling of Just Foreign Policy joins the show to talk about how the war in Gaza has affected the Saudi-Houthi conflict in Yemen. Sperling disagrees with some recent reports that the Houthi attacks on Israeli ships have put their peace plan...
Truth is the Biggest Threat to DC ‘Democracy’
by Jim Bovard | Dec 18, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In Washington, truth is reckoned as the greatest enemy of democracy. Hard facts are deadly threats to a president’s prerogative to define reality and impose “the will of the people.” Early this year, Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard...
News Roundup 12/13/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 13, 2023 | News Roundup
US News Jack Teixeira’s Commanding Officer Removed from Post. Guardian The Institute Venezuela Says US Military Drills in Guyana Are “Provocation.” AFP Russia Russian Oil Revenue Higher in October Than in Year Before War. Bloomberg The Institute Zelensky: "You Can...
This Week At The Libertarian Institute
by Will Porter | Dec 9, 2023 | News
The Empire never sleeps – but neither do we. Missed a story? We’ve got you covered. Check out this week in review at the Libertarian Institute.
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The Wigan Pier of the Periphery
I just finished some work in the city. I was working with a pair of carpenters, men in dirty clothes with splinters in their hands. As we worked the nicely dressed office class ignored those building the world around them, the delivery drivers, the cleaners, the...
Friends Don’t Let Friends Ally with the USA
Osama bin Laden like Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega and a legion of other malefactors discovered that alliance with the US and its coalition partners can be a mercurial and potentially lethal relationship.
A Home into a House
It’s a modest house, a unit trapped inside of a suburb within a suburb. Mostly elderly live here. A woman in her late seventies greets me, “I’m Rosanne, the neighbour.” She takes me through the house and shows me what needs to be carried out. Heavy furniture and the...
Ben Shapiro Shows Why He Can’t Be Taken Seriously
Dave Smith highlights another reason why Ben Shapiro’s attempts to defend Israel’s genocide in Gaza cannot be taken seriously.
Netanyahu’s Godson’s Father-in-Law Trump: Jewish Americans who vote for Biden don’t love Israel
Jeez. Who does Genocide Joe have to help Israel first-degree mass murder to get some respect from the Zionists around here? Biden could drop a nuke on Rahmallah and Trump would cry that his would have been a thermo-nuke and he'd'a hit the Jenin refugee camp while he...
The IDF Follies Continue
The "vaunted" Israeli Defense Forces have an entirely undeserved reputation subject to gushing hagiographic treatment in the corporate/access media and even their intelligence services have reputations untethered to reality. The historians will have a cottage industry...
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