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Bernie on Russian Interference: “I’ve seen some of their Tweets and stuff”

by Brad Hoff | Feb 22, 2020 | Blog

Bernie was put in an awkward spot. As Consortium News put it: Sanders was put in a difficult spot. If he said, “Show me the proof that Russia is trying to help me,” he ran the risk of being attacked for disbelieving (even disloyalty to) U.S. intelligence,...

MEK Cultists Escape, Describe Their Imprisonment to the NYT

by Scott Horton | Feb 20, 2020 | Blog

These are the people that Howard Dean, Ed Rendell, Rudy Giuliani, John Bolton and so many other corrupt, bribed war mongers want to put in power in Tehran: Dozens of former members now live independently in Albania. I met 10 of them, who each described being...

The Conscience of a Liberal by Paul Krugman – REBUTTED

by Keith Knight | Feb 12, 2020 | Blog, Don't Tread on Anyone

Economist Robert P. Murphy and I discuss Krugman's take on leftism, the morality of the state, welfare, economic cycles, inequality, the great depression and much more! In short, Krugman fails to explain why the state has a moral right to do things (initiate violence...

Does Foreign Press Have First Amendment Rights?

by Zack Sorenson | Jan 23, 2020 | Blog

“We have now learned from submissions and affidavits presented by the United States to this court that they do not consider foreign nationals to have a First Amendment protection,” - WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson The text of the First Amendment is:...

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Celebrate Juneteenth the Right Way

Today is Juneteenth. I celebrate the lethal electrocution of two communist spies on this day in 1953; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple, were executed for their espionage service to Stalin and the USSR They became good communists on that...

The “Least Performing” Circus Continues at the US Navy (and Elsewhere)

***Have been out of pocket for conference attendance*** The US Navy and the Pentagon continue the grand sclerotic and arthritic three ring circus of staggering inabilities to deliver any exquisite platforms on time, on budget and within scope. The sterling track...

Be Careful What You Ask for

You wanted America First. You got it. Did you think it wouldn't be conceived in national collectivist terms? The clue's in the name. It's America First, not Americans First.

Phony Noninterventionists

Call me naive, but I increasingly suspect that much of today's "left" is not antiwar on principle. Rather, it's anti-American war because, in its view, America (not just the government) is rotten to the core: bourgeois, racist, patriarchal, heteronormative, blah,...