US News Missouri adopts a new anti-BDS law. [Link] A video surfaced of a NY police officer beating a homeless man for no reason. [Link] A Michigan judge sentenced a 15-year-old girl to juvenile detention for failing to complete online schoolwork during Covid-19....
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A Halo for the Civil War is Hogwash
by Jim Bovard | Jul 16, 2020 | Featured Articles
“If the people who started wars didn’t make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?” said Rhett Butler, the savvy anti-hero in Gone with the Wind. Politicians, activist historians, and social justice warriors have awarded the American Civil War an ex post...
7/10/20 Bas Spliet on the American War that Destroyed Libya
by Scott Horton | Jul 14, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Bas Spliet is back to discuss the disaster that was America and the UN's involvement in Libya after 2011's Arab Spring. Spliet reminds us that Libya was once one of the wealthiest countries in north Africa, ruled by a secular dictator with relative liberty and...
News Roundup 7/14/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 14, 2020 | News Roundup
US News A fire injured twenty-one people on the USS Bonhomme. The ship is docked in San Diego. [Link] The federal government ran an $867 billion deficit in June. The US is running a $2.7 trillion deficit for the year. With three months left in the year, the current...
News Roundup 7/8/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 8, 2020 | News Roundup
US News A new law in northeastern Italy gives the government the power to arrest people who refuse Covid treatment. [Link] CENTCOM top Gen. Kenzie says he did not see a “causative link” between the alleged Russian bounties to the Taliban and the deaths of US soldiers...
With Only Four Exceptions, Senate Republicans Vote to Remain in Afghanistan
by Brad Polumbo | Jul 8, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
With Americans growing ever more divided amid national upheaval over racial inequality and a global pandemic, it has perhaps never been more apparent that the United States has no business trying to fix the world with so many problems on our own doorstep. Whatever his...
The Russian Bounties Hoax
by Scott Horton | Jul 2, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There’s no reason for you to accept the story about the Russian military paying Afghan militants to kill American troops in Afghanistan. The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post all started this controversy late last week with incredibly thin...
Dangerous Game: How the Wreckage of Russiagate Ignited a New Cold War
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Jul 1, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
It’s been nearly four years since the myth of Trump-Russia collusion made its debut in American politics, generating an endless stream of stories in the corporate press and hundreds of allegations of conspiracy from pundits and officials. But despite netting scores of...
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US Hypersonics Off to Stuttering Start (Again)
This is part of the "prompt strike" initiative trying to increase the speed of delivery of munitions operationally. It took two years of delays to have a first test launch in December 2024 (maybe, Pentagon is shady on launch date actual); The missile at the core of...
Carrier Follies: Yet Another Failure Arrow in the Quiver
You had one job. Well, two. You can't launch and receive aircraft reliably. Nor apparently can you detect and deploy sensor capabilities to aim the aircraft that occasionally leave the very expensive deck. The radar has actually degraded over time. The dual-band radar...
David Hearst Explains Trump’s Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza
Trump aims to help Israel ethnically cleanse Gaza and deepen its apartheid regime in the West Bank.
“Riviera of the Middle East…”
There’s optimism among the small government conservatives, liberty nationalists and MAGA hardliners from the first weeks of Trumps second presidency. The exposure of USAID to the world, revealing waste, nefarious conduct and ideologically bias that only proves that...
Fixing Fight Club: A Missive to DOGE
President Trump, SECDEF, Mr. Musk and DOGE, I am the host of Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast and WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast. You are about to embark on a dark journey to discover the existential mismanagement and beggared martial imagination of the...
Abolish Antitrust!
"That there is inequality of ability or monetary income on the free market should surprise no one. As we have seen above, men are not 'equal' in their tastes, interests, abilities, or locations. Resources are not distributed “equally” over the earth.16 This inequality...
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