Millions and thousands become empty numbers when scaled in the context of history. As a scale of human life taken, those numbers are tragic and can seem unreal. A life balanced against policy, allowed to suffer and die beneath a wider context that is expedient or...
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Saturday Snippets 6 April 2024
by Bill Buppert | Apr 6, 2024 | Blog
Like all things, drone racing is the cutting edge of pressing the technology into the future, not government.It's these small and arcane subculture that drive innovation. Did I say not government? The Drone Racing League with tens of thousands of members. The market...
This Week At The Libertarian Institute
by Will Porter | Apr 6, 2024 | 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.
Israel Killed 100+ Civilians in ‘Apparent War Crime’ – HRW
by Will Porter | Apr 4, 2024 | News
A deadly Israeli airstrike on a six-story apartment block early in the Gaza war likely constituted a war crime, rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has reported.
News Roundup 4/4/24
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 4, 2024 | News Roundup
US News Orwellian Tactics? Libertarian Party Fears Targeting By FBI After Letter The Institute Mitch McConnell Says He’ll Stay in the Senate To Fight the ‘Isolationist Movement’ AWC Ukraine Ukraine Aid Vote Not Expected in House for Weeks or Longer AWC Ukrainian...
World War III Isn’t Preordained (No Matter What They Say)
by Brad Pearce | Apr 4, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A recent survey from YouGov found that 61% of Americans think a world war within the next five to ten years is “very likely” or “somewhat likely,” while only 21% say that such a scenario is “not very likely” or “not likely at all.” It’s notable that Democrats, who are...
The Growing Fissures in NATO Unity
by Ted Snider | Apr 4, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Despite the damage done in Ukraine and NATO’s now apparent inability to support Ukraine’s defense against Russia strongly enough, one item in the western win column is the claim that NATO is more unified following the damage done by Donald Trump. Even aside from NATO...
War is the Health, Wealth and Death of the State
by Bill Buppert | Apr 4, 2024 | Blog
“War is the health of the state.The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany. There is work to be done to prevent this war of ours from passing into popular mythology as...
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The US Paper War Tiger is Way Behind
The Ukraine and Russian forces have been building drones for less than three thousand dollars and the "Affordable Mass" efforts in the US had an original floor price of three hundred thousand dollars because that is the way the American "defense" acquisition system...
Caution: Hard Times Ahead
Comfort is a thief. Life is hard. Do more and suck less. Class dismissed.
Yet Another US Navy Surface Ship Fiasco
As I have mentioned, the US Navy can't catch a break from the cavalcade of calamities that is Navy shipbuilding for two generations. First they removed the 155mm gun when it was disclosed it was 800 thousand dollars a round Advanced Gun System (AGS) then it took five...
We: Records 1-5
Reading We, a Russian dystopian novel.
The US Navy Does the Right Thing: At Last
This is the first US Navy decision I can get behind in years. The US Navy just cancelled its Constellation class frigate program because it is absolutely incapable of building hulls and ships that work. They have not launched a successful surface ship since 1991 with...
If Wishes Were Buses
Like a major air disaster that leaves blackened wreckage scattered far and wide, Zohran Mamdani’s New York collision with reality hurtles ahead. The mayor-elect has once again put on display a key reason that catastrophe is inevitable. It is worse than just...
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