A joint investigation by Reuters, AFP, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International found on October 13 an Israeli tank conducted a lethal attack on journalists in southern Lebanon. Since October 7, Israeli military operations have killed and injured scores of...
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U.S. Aid, Political Rights, and Civil Liberties in the Middle East and North Africa
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Dec 6, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The period 2003-2018 saw Washington annually spending hundreds of millions to tens of billions of dollars supporting regimes across the Middle East and North Africa. While some of the effects and outcomes of these “investments” are obvious, such as the lost wars in...
The Real Problem With Our Foreign Policy…
by Ron Paul | Dec 6, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Over the weekend Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin explained to the American people what’s really wrong with U.S. foreign policy. Some might find his conclusions surprising. The U.S. standing in the world is damaged not because we spent 20 years fighting an Afghan...
12/4/23 Diego Rivera on Defend the Guard’s Growing Momentum
by Scott Horton | Dec 5, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Diego Rivera returns to the show to give an update on Defend the Guard. He shares some good developments about the effort to pass the legislation. Then the two discuss the importance and practicality of this approach to fighting the war machine....
Kissinger and My Interstate 81 Epiphany
by Jim Bovard | Dec 5, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Henry Kissinger died last Wednesday. So far, I’ve been handling the grief pretty well. Kissinger was the most esteemed war criminal in American history. As Richard Nixon’s National Security Advisor, Kissinger summarized the president's order for bombing Cambodia:...
More Journalists Killed as Israel Resumes Military Operations in Gaza
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 4, 2023 | News
At least three Palestinian journalists have been killed in the Israeli onslaught in Gaza since Tel Aviv broke a truce and resumed military operations on Friday. Human rights groups have described the dozens of dead journalists in the besieged enclave as...
News Roundup 12/4/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 4, 2023 | News Roundup
US News Sen. Wyden Threatens to Block Vote on NSA, US Cyber Command Nominee. The Hill Ukraine Secretary of State Antony Blinken dismissed reports that the US was pushing Ukraine towards negotiating an end to the war with Russia during a meeting of NATO foreign...
Henry Kissinger: War Criminal and Enemy of Mankind
by Ryan McMaken | Dec 4, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Former U.S. secretary of state and national security advisory Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday. He was 100 years old. Kissinger is perhaps most notable for his work during Nixon Administration when he helped Nixon prolong the Vietnam War and expand it to Cambodia and...
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Niger Tells Americans To Leave: American Influence in Africa will be Non-existent in Ten Years
More please. More State Department behavior like this will reduce the American footprint of influence planet-wide. “[Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine] said the Nigerian leaders took particular umbrage at remarks by Molly Phee, the State Department’s top...
The Logic of It All
This is how some people think: Business has long used the government to gain benefits it could not get in the marketplace. I have the cure for that: Abolish the market and expand the government to encompass all of society.
Another Aspect of the Eternal Intelligence Failure in the West
Had a brain zephyr. I know this because I am on the spectrum. The intelligence community (IC) hires high IQ but neuro-divergent individuals who have difficulty with tone and context and that colors reporting, assessments and final analyses. Couple that with...
What Is Easy and What Is Not Easy
It is easy to oppose Israel's massacre in the Gaza Strip. Just watch a few horrifying videos. What is not easy is understanding the price system, its prerequisites -- private property and free exchange -- and its benefits for mankind, including civil peace.
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.
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