Spectacle and theater have come to dominate the political arena today, even more so than ever before. Politicians are now celebrity oligarchs, who use tax revenues to promote their pet projects, and to enhance their personal investment portfolios, while pretending in scrupulously orchestrated performances to care about the populace from whom all of the money they squander is siphoned. Congresspersons who issue dire warnings about global warming jet across the world for photo ops with President Zelensky in Ukraine. The provision by the federal government of Peloton bicycle memberships to...
Iraq War
Non-Interventionism In the Only Sensible Path Forward
Libertarians, Liberty-wing Republicans, and other opponents of non-defensive wars are popularly misconceived to have an “every man for himself” approach to both our economic views and foreign policy positions. Of course, this is patently false in both cases, but this piece will focus on clarifying the latter. Local Libertarian activist Roy Minet, who has also written about the former, touched on the popular myth of isolationism in his 2014 LNP article “Defense should mean defense only." “Apparently, they call anyone who doesn’t support their various military interventions around the globe...
Why Waco Still Matters
The following article was originally published on Antiwar.com in 2005. On April 19, 1993, agents of the U.S. government assaulted the Branch Davidian “compound” at Waco, Texas – a religious community of Adventists under the leadership of David Koresh – killing 74 men, women, and children, including 12 children younger than five years of age. It was an act of state terrorism so blatant that our government and its media enablers have spent 12 years, several official reports [.pdf], and a lot of time and energy lying about the circumstances surrounding the event and covering up the truth....
The New York Times is the King of Fake News. Ashley Rindsberg & Keith Knight
https://youtu.be/UCefpunUNBM ... journalists and media people have generally become not objective reporters, but missionary zealots with their own ideological agenda and brainwashing the public. Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D., Irrepressible Rothbard, pp. 387–88 Ashley Rindsberg is an Israel-based author whose work focuses on the struggle for truth and meaning in an age of crisis. Rindsberg has contributed to the Los Angeles Review of Books, The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, and Publisher’s Weekly. Website Amazon: The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's...
Creative Chaos: How U.S. Planners Sparked the Anti-Government Protests of the So-Called Arab Spring in Syria
“I have been a refugee for 37 years due to my political engagement against the ruling Baath party. I cannot go back to Syria without being punished. But I see what the western countries, Turkey, and the Gulf states are now trying to do to my country. It has nothing to do with human rights or democracy. They want to divide the country and get rid of an opponent to the US´ plans for the region.”- Saliba Mourad Introduction Since the beginning of the Syrian crisis, President Bashar al-Assad has claimed that Syria was the victim of a plot by Western imperialist powers seeking to effect regime...
The Usual Suspects Push for War With Russia
Here we go again. Since the original Gulf War in 1991, a certain pattern has emerged. Every few years, the regime in Washington attempts to whip the American people into a frenzy so as to support the latest American invasion “necessary” for regime change, “spreading democracy,” or some other agenda item. It worked with Iraq in 1991, with Serbia in the late 1990s, and with Iraq again in 2003. It worked in Libya in 2011. They tried it again in 2013, but Americans showed so little interest in the floated Syria invasion that the move was eventually rejected by the White House. The American...
COI #215: A Combat Vet on Biden’s First Year as Commander-in-Chief
On COI #215, Kyle Anzalone is joined by Henri Henrikson to discuss Biden’s first year as president. Kyle and Henri break down Biden’s continuation of the Iraq War, his economic war against Afghanistan which is creating a humanitarian disaster, as well as his failure to bring accountability for America’s air wars and the myriad civilian casualties. Odysee Rumble Donate LBRY Credits bTTEiLoteVdMbLS7YqDVSZyjEY1eMgW7CP Donate Bitcoin 36PP4kT28jjUZcL44dXDonFwrVVDHntsrk Donate Bitcoin Cash Qp6gznu4xm97cj7j9vqepqxcfuctq2exvvqu7aamz6 Patreon Subscribe Star YouTube Facebook Twitter MeWe Apple...
News Roundup 1/13/2022
Covid Rhode Island will deploy 60 National Guardsmen to a psychiatric hospital due to staffing issues. [Link] Oregon will deploy an additional 700 National Guardsmen to medical facilities, for a total of more than 1,200 soldiers. [Link] Biden will deploy the 1,000 military personnel to hospitals in six states. [Link] US News Virginia Beach police used fake DNA reports to get people to confess to crimes. [Link] Biden collected more in tariffs than Trump did. [Link] The US approves the release of five Gitmo detainees. [Link] US officials claim diplomats in Vienna and Paris came down with...
News Roundup 1/11/2022
Covid Hospitals are allowing staff who test positive for covid to continue to work. [Link] Biden will require health insurance providers to provide eight at-home covid tests per month. [Link] US News A court upheld the firing of two LAPD officers who ignored calls to respond to a robbery to play Pokemon Go. [Link] Former Trump administration defense officials are joining the boards of small tech companies. [Link] Latin America A suspected member of the assassination team that killed Haitian President Jovenel Moise was arrested in the Dominican Republic. [Link] The US sanctioned six...
News Roundup 1/5/2022
US News Willie Stokes was released from prison after serving 37 years for a murder he did not commit. Stokes was convicted after police bribed a witness to give a false statement. The witness was convicted for purgery for lying in court. [Link] Biden doubles the government’s purchase of the Pfizer anti-covid treatment from 10 to 20 million courses of the treatment. [Link] The Kentucky National Guard deploys 200 soldiers to Kosovo. [Link] American-backed Ukrainian white-nationalist/neo-Nazi militias are recruiting from around the world, including the US. [Link] Venezuela Venezuela’s...