Democratic Senator Robert Menendez loses an appeal to the Supreme Court, and he will face bribery charges. Menendez is accused of accepting bribes from an ophthalmologist, then protecting the ophthalmologist from a $8.9 million Medicare dispute. [Link] Electronic...
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US Launching Soaring Number of Airstrikes Against ISIS in Iraq, Syria
by Jason Ditz | Mar 21, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Over 7,000 Strikes Carried Out in Just the Last Two Months With the fighting against ISIS increasingly confined to densely populated cities like Mosul and Raqqa, the US air war against them continues to escalate precipitously, with record numbers of airstrikes in...
News Roundup 3/18/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 18, 2017 | Blog
This article explains the differences in Western media coverage of the battle for Aleppo and the battle for Mosul. [Link] A police officer who murdered a man will not face civil litigation for murdering the man. The 11th Circuit Court granted the officer qualified...
News Roundup 3/17/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 17, 2017 | Blog
Trump picks a Boeing executive, Patrick Shanahan, to become deputy US defense secretary. [Link] Trump is asking Congress to pass an immediate $30 billion in additional spending for the Pentagon. $5 billion is for the Pentagon to use in its war against ISIS. The...
3/15/17 Eric Margolis on Trump’s “Levantine Madness” – war escalation and deployment of US forces all over the Middle East
by Scott Horton | Mar 15, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Eric Margolis, a war correspondent and author of American Raj, discusses the US-backed motley crew fighting for full control of Mosul against the Islamic State - which never would have gained a foothold if Saddam Hussein or his sons still led Iraq; new US escalation...
News Roundup 3/14/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 14, 2017 | Blog
The White House has ordered the State Department to look for up to a 50% cut to the funding the US gives to the UN. The US currently spends $10 billion to fund the UN each year. [Link] Seema Verma has been approved by the Senate to head the Center for Medicare and...
News Roundup 3/13/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 13, 2017 | Blog
The Trump Administration is looking to loosen counterterrorism rules that are intended to prevent civilian casualties. The administration may also declare some regions to be "areas of active hostilities." These moves will allow the military to carry out raids and...
Trump Sends the Marines to Syria
by Scott Horton | Mar 8, 2017 | Blog
Haven't I told you for the last year or more he was going to send the Marines to eastern Syria? I admit I thought he's send 'em to Mosul first, but I guess the special ops guys have got that handled -- for now. Well now he's sent Marine artillery and infantry too. Now...
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Trump Bombs Iran: Bovard’s First Penalty Flags
If only the Japanese had issued a "time for peace" statement after bombing Pearl Harbor like Trump did tonight. Shakespeare wrote: "Cry havoc and loose the dogs of war." Trump had his 4 minute victory lap statement tonight. Will he still be strutting on Independence...
UTOPYC: A Realistic Libertarian Utopia
What if there were a country with no state, no taxes, no politicians, and no public institutions? That’s the premise of Utopyc, a novel that answers the need—long identified by Rothbard—for a libertarian narrative capable of moving, convincing, and inspiring. The...
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,...
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