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Rep Thomas Massie On GOP Amendment To End War In Afghanistan

by Steven Woskow | Jul 17, 2020 | Blog

"A defense bill amendment to repeal authority for military force that has been in place since right after 9-11, effectively expediting plans for a full withdrawal and ending America's longest war." Massie states the biggest obstacle may be that Democrat House Leader...

Trump Fires Scumbag Ukraine-Gate Co-Conspirator

by Scott Horton | Apr 3, 2020 | Blog

Trump should also confiscate all of Michael Atkinson's property and banish him and his family from the United States permanently. If you want to impeach and remove the president, he's plenty guilty of war crimes, but then so are all of you. What you may not do is...

Afghan War Disaster Continues On

by Scott Horton | Dec 14, 2019 | Blog

NYT: At Least 23 Soldiers Killed in Insider Attack in Afghanistan At least 23 [ANA] soldiers were killed while they were sleeping on Saturday in an insider attack in eastern Afghanistan, officials said, the latest episode of enemy infiltration that has raised concerns...

Russia Drops Out of Top Five in Global Military Spending

by Scott Horton | May 1, 2019 | Blog

See that's how they getcha! Doing sneaky shit like dissolving their empire and paring down their military forces. But all the worst liars in America warn that we better watch out! They're tricky, them Russians!

John Bolton On The Warpath

by Steven Woskow | Apr 29, 2019 | Blog

Can Trumps National-Security adviser sell the isolationist President on military force? Dexter Filkins at The New Yorker, an in-depth profile of the most dangerous man in the world.

Back to the future? Bolton, Trump and Iranian regime change

by Gareth Porter | May 20, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Now that the Trump administration has derailed the Iran nuclear deal, the old issue of regime change in Iran is back again. National Security Advisor John Bolton is obviously the chief regime-change advocate in the administration, and there is every reason to believe...

Rand Paul: Congress Moves to Give the President Unlimited War Powers

by A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner | May 16, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics

In the near future, Congress will debate a new Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF). I use the word “debate” lightly. So far, no hearings have been scheduled, and no testimony is likely to be heard unless something changes. That’s a shame, because this is a...

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Restricting Production

"At the bottom of the interventionist argument there is always the idea that the government or the state is an entity outside and above the social process of production, that it owns something which is not derived from taxing its subjects, and that it can spend this...

Ford Follies: The Carrier Grift That Just Keeps Giving

Stop building these things. Even the corporate/access defense media is starting to sound the alarm bells on the multi-billion carrier fiasco that is the USS Ford which is probably causing plenty of public relations professionals in the Navy to go apoplectic. As my...

“Capitalism” Is about Freedom, Not Capital

"Why 'capitalism'? Words have an unfortunate tendency to confuse. Free market capitalism is not really about capital, it is about handing control of the economy from the top to billions of independent consumers, entrepreneurs and workers, and allowing them to make...

Ticonderoga Leaves the Fleet: The US Surface Navy Continues to Shrink

The US Navy surface fleet continues to shrink. And every surface hull commissioned after the Arleigh Burke class in 1991 has been a failure. The Chinese Navy exceeds the US Navy in total warships deployed. What makes this even more astonishing is that the Chinese...

US Forces Booted Out of Niger

2024 is the end of the ten year lease after expending $110 million to build and $30 million a year to maintain the base. The French forces were booted in October 2023. American troops are leaving now and the German troops will leave in September. The military regimes...

They Hate Our Freedom

They Hate Our Freedom Near the end of 2022,[1] the government finally released the notes from the 9/11 Commission’s interview of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney from April 29, 2004. Would you believe it turns out the president admitted that his...

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