The quest to develop and refine technologically advanced means to commit mass homicide continues on, with Pentagon tacticians ever eager to make the military leaner and more lethal. Drone swarms already exist, and as insect-facsimile drones are marketed and produced,...
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5/11/23 Philip Weiss on US-Israeli Relations, 20 Years Ago and Today
by Scott Horton | May 16, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Philip Weiss is back on the show to discuss the evolving views of Israeli apartheid in the American Jewish community and the U.S. Government. Scott and Weiss reflect on where the U.S.-Israeli dynamic stood twenty years ago as the global war on...
Saddling Our Kids with Debt and a Draft
by Inna Patrick | Apr 17, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When Congress discusses banning TikTok to keep our children safe from Chinese government spying, what do they really have in mind? And is it a pretext to bring back the military draft? The debate conjures up memories of when Congress adopted children’s interests in...
Vladimir Putin vs. The International Criminal Court
by Ted Snider | Mar 29, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On March 17, the International Criminal Court issued a warrant of arrest for Russian President Vladimir Putin as a war criminal for allegedly deporting and transferring children from Ukraine to Russia. The 1946 Nuremburg Tribunal declared that, “To initiate a war of...
3/2/23 Diego Rivera on Defend the Guard and Those Trying to Stop It
by Scott Horton | Mar 3, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Diego Rivera returns to talk about some of the recent successes in the effort to pass Defend the Guard. Rivera explains what the bill is and why it’s necessary. They then talk about how the movement to pass it is led by veterans of the Global War...
‘Defend the Guard’ Receives Outstanding Committee Hearing in New Hampshire
by Dan McKnight | Jan 24, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
"I didn't know a lot about the Guard problem until I got involved in this, and the folks from Bring Our Troops Home sent me this very, extremely informative booklet on defending the Guard. And it's now called the Defend the Guard bill." That’s how State Rep. John...
The Duke in the Shining Attack Helicopter
by John Weeks | Jan 23, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A January 6 CNN headline read, "Prince Harry criticized by UK military figures—and Taliban—after claiming he killed 25 fighters in Afghanistan." Dear God, I thought. Had Henry Charles Albert David, aka Prince Harry, succumbed to the type of war zone fabrications made...
Remembering Daniel Webster This Election Day
by Dan McKnight | Nov 7, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Tomorrow is Election Day. There’s going to be a lot of candidates and a lot parties on the ballot—Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, etc. Someday, when I enter the booth in my local polling station to pull that lever of democracy, I hope to see the words...
Joe Biden’s COVID Dictatorship Will Never End
by Jim Bovard | Oct 18, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Biden administration formally decreed last week that America’s COVID “emergency” continues. That proclamation was tricky to reconcile with President Biden’s announcement last month on 60 Minutes: “The pandemic is over.” Apparently, that was malarkey—perhaps part...
21 Years of the Global War on Terror
by Dan McKnight | Oct 7, 2022 | Blog
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Military Leadership Has Lost Its Rightwing Congregation
by John Vaughn | Sep 16, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Last week, an open letter from every living former secretary of Defense (with the notable exception of Dick Cheney) and every living chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (with the less notable exception of H. Hugh Shelton) was published on the popular military...
The Global War on Terror Gave Us Student Debt ‘Forgiveness’
by Dan McKnight | Aug 25, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Yesterday President Joe Biden announced he’s “forgiving” up to $20,000 of student loan debt per student, totalling over $300 billion dollars. Poof, it’s gone! And where does the president find the authority for such a large, spontaneous action? Well, it’s another gift...
8/8/22 Bonnie Kristian on America’s Ongoing War in Somalia
by Scott Horton | Aug 12, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott interviews Bonnie Kristian about her new book and an article she wrote recently on America’s war in Somalia. After the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan last summer, Somalia is now America’s longest war. Though Trump temporarily shifted...
We Killed the Last Justification for the Global War on Terror
by Dan McKnight | Aug 9, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There was a satisfying victory—not just for our soldiers and veterans, but for all Americans. One week ago it was announced that the U.S. government had assassinated Ayman al-Zawahiri, who along with Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was the key planner...
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The US Government Has Been Lying About How to Lose Weight for Decades
https://youtu.be/TUADs-CK7vI Fat Fiction Movie Website Research by Ann F. La Berge: How the Ideology of Low Fat Conquered America Turns out a low-carb diet does far more to help people lose weight than a low-fat diet.
The “Rich Get Richer” Myth
Some 94 percent of Americans who reach “top 1 percent” income status will enjoy it for only a single year. Approximately 99 percent will lose their “top 1 percent” status within a decade. Now consider the top 400 U.S. income-earners—a far more exclusive club than the...
The Non-Existent Difference Between National Socialism and Democratic Socialism
Summary: National Socialism and Democratic Socialism both advocate institutionalized violence by the state against peaceful people only differing in rhetoric. The most popular self described Democratic Socialists in America today are Senator Bernie Sanders and...
A Response to My Memorial Day Critics
My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...
Ignoring Political Gossip & Sticking to Principle
https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...
The Myth of “Hyper-Rugged-Isolationist-Individualism”
Myth #1: Libertarians believe that each individual is an isolated, hermetically sealed atom, acting in a vacuum without influencing each other. This is a common charge, but a highly puzzling one. In a lifetime of reading libertarian and classical-liberal...
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