Alan Kuperman explains the true story of the 2011 civil war in Libya, which the United States famously and disastrously supported. Contrary to the narrative that this uprising was started by regular, educated citizens like doctors and lawyers, Kuperman and his...
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JAMA: Fluoridated Water During Pregnancy Causes Lower IQs
You insane conspiracy kooks. -- Uh, I mean the Journal of the American Medical Association: An influential medical journal published a study Monday that links fluoride consumption during pregnancy with lower childhood IQs—a finding that could undermine decades of...
This Is Your Brain on Government Intervention (in the War on Drugs)
Ludwig von Mises, in his Critique of Interventionism, stated that one government intervention in the market creates unintended consequences, which inevitably justifies the next government intervention. Nowhere is this more true than in the healthcare and drug...
Hamid Hayat Finally Free!
Remember him? He was the 22-year-old entrapped by Robert Mueller's FBI into ... Actually, he didn't do anything at all! All that happened was the government informant who had infiltrated his family tricked him into saying some bs about loving Osama, before the actual...
Correction: Islamic State Population Size
Thanks to John in the Reddit room for the heads up. I said on Tom Woods' show that the Islamic State, which controlled eastern Syria and western Iraq from June 2014-December 2017, was the size and population of Great Britain, but that's wrong. It was the size of the...
The War In Afghanistan – Will Trump Finally End It?
Rod Nordland and David Zucchino in The New York Times review the current state of Afghanistan’s military. Their assessment is that the Afghan government forces are good at getting killed by Taliban fighters. It has gotten so bad that the government doesn't even put...
News Roundup 8/12/19
US News The US tells Germany that it must increase defense spending to 2% of GDP - the NATO target - or risk the US moving troops deployed in Germany to Poland. [Link] Defense Secretary Esper visits Mongolia on a mission to build ties. [Link] Korean Peace The ongoing...
Biden Is Doubling Down on Iraq War Lies
Stephen Zunes reminds us of the real history of Joe "The Fix is In" Biden and the destruction of Iraq.
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