Scott talks to Sheldon Richman about the dawning realization that a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians is never going to happen. Although Prime Minister Netanyahu recently backed down from his official plans for annexation of the West Bank, Richman says...
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America’s Hobbesian Tyranny
Almost 400 years ago, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrote a book scoffing at tyrannophobia—the “fear of being strongly governed.” This was a peculiar term that Hobbes invented in Leviathan, since civilized nations had feared tyrants for almost 2000 years at that...
7/17/20 Phil Weiss on the Death of the Two-State Solution
Phil Weiss joins the show to discuss what he views as the internal collapse of Zionism, especially in America. It is starting to become obvious to everyone, as signaled by a recent Peter Beinart piece, that the idea of a two-state solution has pretty much been an...
A Halo for the Civil War is Hogwash
“If the people who started wars didn’t make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?” said Rhett Butler, the savvy anti-hero in Gone with the Wind. Politicians, activist historians, and social justice warriors have awarded the American Civil War an ex post...
What Paul Krugman Gets Wrong About The $600 Unemployment Bonus
The federal government’s program of supplemental unemployment benefits of up to $600 per week, as provided for in the CARES Act, is set to expire at the end of July. Whether or not to extend this program is setting up to become a contentious political battle mere...
Outliving Thoreau’s Life of Poverty
Henry David Thoreau has inspired generation of Americans to live fuller, freer lives. From his story of spending a night in jail as a tax protestor in “Civil Disobedience” to his chronicle of solitary living in Walden, Thoreau reached higher ground by going against...
Dem, GOP Zionists Are The Tiniest Little Crybaby Millennial Snowflakes
For all their shameful excesses, the Antifa Social Justice Cancel Culture Warriors have nothing on those Americans who prioritize serving the interests of the foreign nation of Israel. Here Florida GOP state legislators are going after a Florida State University...
Prisoners of Your Health: The Flemington and North Melbourne Public Housing Towers Blockade
COVID-19 has claimed its share of victims, most of whom have not even contracted the virus. Instead, across the world it has been the reaction of governments often under the guise of benevolence and concern for health that has impacted and harmed more people. Whether...
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