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Totalitarian Tendencies in Drone Strikes by States*

by Laurie Calhoun | Mar 30, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

*Note: “Totalitarian Tendencies in Drone Strikes by States” was published in Critical Studies on Terrorism on March 30, 2018, and is provided here, with the publisher’s permission, in manuscript form. (Citation: Laurie Calhoun (2018) Totalitarian tendencies in drone...

Episode 96: Talking Count Dankula, Lauren Southern and Radical Islam with Antony Sammeroff of the Scottish Liberty Podcast

by Peter R. Quiñones | Mar 28, 2018 | Blog, Free Man Beyond the Wall

Mance welcomes Antony Sammeroff, co-host of the Scottish Liberty Podcast, host of the Be Yourself and Love it Podcast and author of Procratination Annihilation, to talk about current events in Great Britain pertaining to individual liberty. Antony's Book Scottish...

The Untold Story of John Bolton’s Campaign for War With Iran

by Gareth Porter | Mar 22, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Everyone knows Bolton is a hawk. Less understood is how he labored in secret to drive Washington and Tehran apart. In my reporting on U.S.-Israeli policy, I have tracked numerous episodes in which the United States and/or Israel made moves that seemed to indicate...

They Lied Us Into War, All of Them

by Scott Horton | Mar 22, 2018 | Blog

And I don’t just mean Iraq War II. A friend wanted a list, so I whipped one up real quick. Gulf of Tonkin 1967: McNamara knew it was a mistake before LBJ used it as an excuse to escalate. Daniel Ellsberg’s firsthand account from inside the Pentagon:...

News Roundup 3/21/18

by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 21, 2018 | Blog

The police officer who shot and killed Justine Damond has finally been charged with murder. [Link] Sacramento police shoot and kill a young man. Police report mistaking a cell phone for a gun. The two police officers shot the man 20 times. [Link] The Senate votes to...

Righter Than Right

by Hunter DeRensis | Mar 19, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Politics

“I like it. A lot of good things,” said Donald Trump, describing libertarianism in late 2015. I’m skeptical if President Trump, then or now, could give even a basic definition of the liberty philosophy. But despite that ignorance, I believe Trump has paved the way to...

3/16/18 Eli Clifton on Mike Pompeo's and Trump's neocons ties

by Scott Horton | Mar 16, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Eli Clifton joins Scott to discuss his latest piece with Jim Lobe, "Pompeo: Springtime For Irano/Islamophobes." Clifton describes how the neocons have direct access to the Trump presidency and how they've whipped up a consistent stream of Islamaphobia in the United...

3/16/18 Eli Clifton on Mike Pompeo’s and Trump’s neocons ties

by Scott Horton | Mar 16, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

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Pentagon Acquisition: Rotten From Head to Toe

The pattern is a revolving door of deliberate insider trading and influence by hiring retiring flag officers with active Rolodexes to be exploited in bent bidding and shadowy acquisition practices in an already sclerotic and gummed-up acquisition system that can't...

The Business of America: War, War, War!

Sachs mentions Timber Sycamore which was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the CIA and supported by the United Kingdom and some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. The aim of the program was to remove Syrian president Bashar...

Mises on Wages under Capitalism

"While daily experience taught impressively that under capitalism real wage rates and the wage earners’ standard of living were steadily rising, while it became from day to day more obvious that the traditional walls separating the various strata of the population...

Anti-War Blog – Do They Really Know It’s Christmas?

Every year as the end of December crawls near, the spirit of Christmas grips those sometimes Christians, even atheists join in and celebrate it as a cultural habit and the true believers further confirm their faith. The spirit of celebration is one of joy, community,...

Winter Reading

Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton’s new book is shaking things up and making a stir all at once. Provoked: How Washington Started The New Cold War With Russia And The Catastrophe In Ukraine is a read it and weep. Or, for the War Party hacks, don’t read it;...

A Warhead That Could: The Extinction Event for Exquisite Military Platforms

Chalk up another crafty Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) to the Russian military. I am hoping the West has noticed the game changer that a conventional warhead on hyper-sonic IRBMs and ICBMs has changed the balance of power in near peer and peer combat for the...