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Drug Overdose Deaths, 2016: Casualties of War

by Thomas L. Knapp | Jun 12, 2017 | Blog

Drug overdose is now the leading cause of death among Americans under 50, the New York Times‘s Josh Katz reports. In 2016, overdoses claimed somewhere between 59,000 and 65,000 lives. That’s more American lives than were lost in the Vietnam war. It’s 20 times the...

Reverse Gateway Drug: Opioid Deaths Plummeting in States with Legal Weed

by James Holbrooks | Mar 29, 2017 | Blog

This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. As Attorney General Jeff Sessions continues to lament what he views as a blight on society, a new study is showing that states with medical marijuana programs are seeing drastic reductions in opioid-related...

Opioid Deaths: Another Drug War Failure

by Steve Chapman | Mar 20, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice

Illicit drug use is an old phenomenon, and Jeff Sessions has an old solution: take off the gloves. "We have too much of a tolerance for drug use," the attorney general complained to an audience of law enforcement officials Wednesday, promising more aggressive...

Losing Hearts and Minds: The Failed Drug War in Afghanistan

by Scott Burns | Nov 4, 2016 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

This week, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) reported that opium production in Afghanistan rose by 43 percent in 2016. The report is disturbing on many levels. But it is especially disturbing considering the billions of dollars the U.S. government...

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Joe Biden is Such a Liar

He lies about everything. This time it's his uncle Ambrose who was lost at sea during WWII. Genocide Joe lies that he was eaten by cannibals, smearing the people of Papua New Guinea, who fought as America's allies in that war.

John Boyd: Persona Non Grata at the Pentagon

COL John Boyd was quite the maverick in the military ranks and rocked the boat all the time. You will not though incredibly capable, he was never promoted to flag rank. One of the best insights he ever gave was that when one distills strategy simply, it is:...

Class versus Identity Politics?

Parts of the "left" and "right" often lament that class politics has given way to identity politics. I don't get that. Class was the original modern political identity, and state privilege was part of the cause. Libertarians and classical liberals long warned that...

Trita Parsi Interview on Israel and Iran

A good one, by Michael Holmes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSuUSf2P5RU

An American Bombing

The most mainstream documentary about the truth behind the Oklahoma Bombing is now running on HBO. An American Bombing is a great, if partial, vindication of the great work of Glenn and Kathy Wilburn, J.D. Cash, Roger Charles, Jesse Trentadue, Richard Booth, Wendy...

The Waco Tragedy

Last year, I sat down with author David Hardy and filmmaker Dan Gifford for a 13-hour in-depth review of the ATF, FBI and US Army's slaughter of the Branch Davidians of Waco, Texas on this day in 1993. Also feat. James Tabor, Paul Fatta, David Thibodeau, Jim Bovard,...

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Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

by Jim Bovard

Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...

The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger

by Joseph Solis-Mullen

Today the front pages and bookstores are filled with tales of the so-called "China Threat." From spy balloons to Fentanyl pipelines, genocide to dreams of world domination: CHINA! But is it all true? Is any of it? Now, for the first time, the speciousness of these and...

Questioning the COVID Company Line: Critical Thinking in Hysterical Times

by Laurie Calhoun

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