According to a new poll, the number of voters who view foreign policy as a top issue has doubled during the past year. Joe Biden has defined his presidency by waging a proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, backing the Israeli onslaught in Gaza, and engaging in a...
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News Roundup 1/2/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 2, 2024 | News Roundup
US News Poll: Foreign Policy Becoming Top Issue for Americans AP Poll: Trump Leads Biden Among Latino and Young Voters Guardian Russia Putin Said Russia Will Ramp Up Weapons Production TASS Ukrainians Turn On War But Are Afraid to Speak Out The Times Senior UK...
Bovard’s Zestiest Zingers of 2023
by Jim Bovard | Jan 2, 2024 | Blog
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...
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...
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A War of Unyielding Horror
That's what the Washington Post calls Israel's slaughter of innocents in Gaza.
Failure Follies: The US Navy Continues the Race to the Bottom
The collapse of western martial civilization is sticking to its schedule. The Wasp class LHD, USS Boxer, has suffered yet another engineering casualty. On this, the Navy delivers with a spectacularly consistent track record of failure with the Little Crappy Ships, the...
More on Immigration and Public Property
Inspired by scholar Simon Guenzl, it occurred to me that regarding "state-claimed" so-called public property, people have been wronged not primarily as taxpayers but as potential homesteaders. (See Guenzl's "Public Property and the Libertarian Immigration...
The F35: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
“Soon after publication ‘Superiority’ was inserted into the Engineering curriculum of MIT, to warn the graduates that the Better is often the enemy of the Good, and the Best can be the enemy of both, as it is always too late.” - Arthur C. Clarke Superiority by Arthur...
Thomas Szasz: Champion of Freedom
Today is the 104th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Szasz (1920-2012), the great if unappreciated libertarian and defender of individual autonomy and dignity. A psychiatrist by profession, for over 50 years, Szasz was the foremost critic of the social-control system...
Iran Attack Liveblog (PHOTOS/VIDEOS)
My live coverage of Iran's missile and drone attack on Israel Saturday night, as it happened. Obviously much of this information has either been confirmed, disproven or become obsolete by now, but the thread is full of interesting details that didn't make it into my...
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