In recent times, accusations of "price gouging" have become prevalent, often targeting producers utilizing strategies like dynamic pricing and “shrinkflation.” Such accusations, echoed by political figures including President Joe Biden, overlook the intricate dynamics...
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White House Lobbies Against Ban on Purchase of Americans’ Data
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 11, 2024 | News
For years, several federal agencies have been spending US tax dollars to buy Americans’ data from private bulk sellers. As some members of Congress seek a new law against the practice, the Joe Biden administration is pushing back on the effort to curtail the power to...
F-35 Cleared To Carry Nuclear Weapons
by Will Porter | Mar 11, 2024 | News
The Pentagon has given the green light to equip the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter with thermonuclear weapons, a military spokesman told Breaking Defense.
These are Major Developments
by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 11, 2024 | Blog
Times, they are a-changing. This morning I was walking my son down the hallway of the elementary school to his classroom. A great number of the parents and kids were late to school, and the teachers were grumbling about difficulties caused by Daylight Savings Time. I...
Will the Ghost of Duncan Lemp Haunt Gun-Grabbing Politicians?
by Jim Bovard | Mar 11, 2024 | Featured Articles
If you post a photo of a rifle on Instagram, tag it to your hometown, and add a caption like “green tip armor piercing gets the girls wet," Maryland police can cite that to get a no-knock search warrant and kill you in a pre-dawn assault on your bedroom. In his novel...
Imperial Assisted Suicide
by John Weeks | Mar 11, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The United States Imperial Government (USIG) claims to be keeping the peace, underwriting the liberal, rules-based international order and safeguarding the global security architecture. This is not true. What the USIG is actually doing is killing people, helping get...
Six Questions for Socialists
by Keith Knight | Mar 9, 2024 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/8V1_acTYaaQ The very same people who say that government has no right to interfere with sexual activity between consenting adults believe that the government has every right to interfere with economic activity between consenting adults. – Thomas...
UN Says Sudan Facing ‘World’s Worst Hunger Crisis’
by Will Porter | Mar 8, 2024 | News
A massive food crisis is looming over Sudan nearly one year after fighting erupted between the army and rebel militants, the United Nations has warned
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Firing Blanks: The Pentagon as a Fiscal Disaster Factory
I have mentioned previously that the introduction of all the latest and greatest western weapons in the inventory given to the Ukraine would have some very deleterious effects in the future. One was permitting possible future antagonists to observe and and take...
Can’t We All Get Along?
Pre-Zionism and pre-Israel, Arab-Muslims, Arab-Christians, and Arab-Jews (yes!) got along in many places as neighbors and friends. Compare that to Europe. Arab and Jewish nationalism messed it up. See Avi Shlaims's Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew.
Lying Politicians Gonna Lyingly Politick
House Speaker Mike Johnson speaking on Holocaust Remembrance Day: We remember what happened then [in Nazi Germany], and today, we are witnessing American universities quickly become hostile places for Jewish students and faculty. The very campuses which were once the...
The Purpose of the Antisemitism Awareness Act
The point of the House-passed (and misnamed) Antisemitism Awareness Act is not to empower the Education Department to sue and defund colleges under civil rights law. It is to make lawsuits unnecessary by chilling expression.
The Prussian Culture of Disobedience
"The German and Prussian officer corps are the officer corps with the greatest culture of disobedience–with maybe the exception of the French. The stories and events that kept alive the virtue requiring an officer–even in war–to disobey an order “when justified by...
Zionism versus Judaism
From the start, political Zionists identified their program with Judaism the religion (despite their secularism, even atheism). Also from the start, Jews -- including the most tradition-bound Jews -- vigorously disavowed that identification. They were shamed as...
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