Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Ankara would approve Finland’s NATO application before the country’s May election. Erdoğan made the announcement after meeting with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto in Ankara.
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Backdoor Subsidies for Childcare Are a Bad Idea
When the social aspects of Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” agenda died in Congress, it seemed that Democrats’ dreams of rolling out childcare subsidies had also perished. Yet now the media reports that Democratic lawmakers are using other legislation to achieve the...
Israel Kills 15 Civilians in Missile Strike on Damascus Residential Complex
Israel hadn’t launched significant attacks on Syria in several weeks, but did so early on Sunday with a missile salvo against the capital city of Damascus. The missiles hit a residential complex, badly damaging it and the surrounding area. At least fifteen civilians...
Nuland: US Supports Kiev “Hitting” Crimea
Victoria Nuland, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, said last week that the US is “supporting” Ukrainian attacks on Crimea and called Russian military installations on the peninsula “legitimate targets.” Nuland made the comments when asked about a...
Growing Number of Americans Say US Is Giving Ukraine Too Much Aid
As the war in Ukraine nears the end of its first year, Americans are starting to believe Washington is sending too much support to Kiev. Pew Research conducted a poll in January and found the proportion of Republicans that are opposed to the current level of assistance is now at 40%. The US has pledged well over $100 billion in aid to Kiev, mostly in arms and other military equipment.
A Defense of Mutual Aid Societies
The libertarian community is unique on account of its ability to ignore standard political and social conventions. Libertarians value freedom and understand why it needs free markets. However, libertarians do not possess a conservative loyalty to the system as it is...
News Roundup 1/17/2023
Russia Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov told BBC on Friday that Ukraine is a “de facto” NATO member since it’s equipped with so many of the alliance’s weapons and dismissed the idea that his comments were controversial. AWC British Prime Minister Rishi...
Oxfam Finds Scores of Civilians Killed By US, UK Weapons in Yemen
A human rights monitoring group has released a new report finding at least 87 Yemeni civilians were killed with American or British weapons during a 14-month period. The Oxfam report reviewed 1,700 attacks on civilians and found Saudi Arabia used US or UK weapons in...
US Dismisses Putin’s Christmas Ceasefire as ‘Cynical Ploy’
The State Department on Thursday rejected Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order for a unilateral ceasefire in Ukraine for Orthodox Christmas, which is celebrated on January 7, as a “cynical ploy.”
News Roundup 1/1/2023
Russia After over 10 months of fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces, there’s no sign that 2023 will bring peace to Ukraine as the warring parties have radically different demands, and the US continues to escalate aid for Kyiv and its role in the war. AWC...
12/22/22 Connor Freeman: Biden Escalates Toward War With Russia
Download Episode. Scott’s first guest on Antiwar Radio this week was Connor Freeman, the Assistant Editor at the Libertarian Institute. They talk about the Ukrainian strikes deep in Russian territory, and the apparent green light Washington gave Kyiv to carry out...
Section 230 Is a Subsidy for Surveillance
The Twenty-Six Words That Created the Internet is a nice book title. It might even be an interesting read. But it is also false. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He stated that the power of the Web was its universality as a permissionless, decentralized,...
News Roundup 12/15/2022
US News Sgt. Isaac Lambert was awarded nearly $1 million from Cook County after the Chicago police officer was punished for reporting a case where an off-duty officer shot an unarmed autistic child. NBC The White House is preparing to limit the number of Haitians,...
News Roundup 12/13/2022
Russia A weekend dispute in northern Kosovo has fueled a new round of controversy, and tensions, as the Kosovar military threatened to move against ethnic Serbs who were blocking the road, leading to a standoff. AWC NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that...
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