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Sanctions, Deployments & Tanker Attacks: A Timeline of Recent US-Iran Hostilities

by Will Porter | Oct 16, 2019 | Blog

As US relations with Iran plumb new depths in the wake of Washington’s unilateral withdrawal from the JCPOA, it’s easy to lose track of the seemingly endless series of new sanctions, troop deployments and explosions in and around the Persian Gulf in recent months. In...

10/14/19 Ramzy Baroud on Israel’s Torture and Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians

by Scott Horton | Oct 16, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Ramzy Baroud joins the show for an update on Israel and Palestine. He wants to dispel some common misconceptions about Israel, starting with the fact that the country didn't even exist before 1948, while Palestine has a history that goes back thousands of years....

Empire of Islands: Geopolitics of the Philippines

by Sal Mayweather | Oct 16, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Empire refers to a grouping of territories under one common authority. Although nowadays it’s more applicable than ever, the term has peculiarly disappeared from the political lexicon. The term connotes romantic images of Rome and Britain at their heights. As the...

Stop Pushing the Envelope: Consequences of US Foreign Policy (Past & Present)

by Phil Gibson | Oct 12, 2019 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Op Eds

So Iran oil tankers get bombed by the Saudis. Funny how that happens to slide into your Friday morning news cycle there. Almost like it was intentional or something. Now Trump is sending 3000 troops to help the Saudis fight off Iranian threats. What threat if they...

News Roundup 10/10/19

by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 10, 2019 | News Roundup

US News Attorney General Barr has been traveling to other countries in the investigation into the origins of Russiagate. [Link] Democratic Senators are concerned Trump will withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty. It is a deal with Russia that allows unarmed flights over...

Blowback: CSIS Study Says 4 Times As Many Militants Since 9/11/2001

by Steven Woskow | Oct 1, 2019 | Blog

Blowback from the US war on terror is actually creating more terrorist. Zerohedge is reporting the results from a study published by Center for Strategic and International Studies including a map showing where the expansion of terrorism has occurred. "Despite nearly...

Book Review of Scott Horton’s Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan

by Nick Weber | Oct 1, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism

I must confess, the absurdity of me writing a review of Scott Horton’s book is akin to the absurdity of the war in Afghanistan, albeit without the hundreds of thousands of dead bodies and billions of government no-bid military contracts and after eighteen years,...

News Roundup 10/1/19

by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 1, 2019 | News Roundup

US News Immigration officials use free translation services like Google Translate to read the social media posts of refugee applicants. [Link] Haiti Protests in Haiti are escalating. Police used live fire to break up protests last week. [Link] Europe Croatia announced...

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“I now saw, I saw. I was made blind before. I now saw.”

I was going over the notes that I had taken for this current book that I am writing, and I found a quote from a conversation with a lady. I shall spare the details of what the focused conversation was about but she said something really interesting, “I learned who my...

Russia is Now the Apex Military Predator

For those of you paying attention, the Institute has been far ahead of the curve in checking its bias and making a bloody and dispassionate appraisal of Russian fighting abilities. The Coprophile Media has been in the the bag for the Ukrainians and had a tough time...

Blue Collar Power Hour w/Kyle Matovcik & Typo

Kyle invited Typo and myself to join him for his 400th episode. Don’t forget ALP

The 250th Anniversary of the Colonial Divorce Proceedings

This is the semiquincentennial anniversary of the "shots heard 'round the world" at Lexington Green on 19 April 1775. Some call this civil war the Revolutionary War. It was a civil war because when the alert muster activated and Paul Revere and his fellow horsemen...

The Biden Junta and Domestic Terrorism

“Domestic terrorism” was used to justify the administration’s censorship agenda targeting its political and social opponents.The First and Second Amendments were targeted, of course. In secret. All fifteen pages of this document are an Orwellian nightmare. Then the...

The Madness Continues: Ground Troops in Yemen?

The Houthis occupy the western on third of the map above of Yemen. A ground presence will not succeed, the Saudis and a coalition of nine nations have made no progress since their invasion in 2015. US involvement in this conflict directly will not end well. Officials:...