US News A police officer who tased a man in the genitals was denied qualified immunity. [Link] Julian Assange and Stella Moris marry in a UK prison as Assange faces extradition to the US. [Link] Colorado will divest from Unilever in its state pension fund because of...
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US Sanctions China for ‘Repressive Acts’ After Telling Beijing to Cut Ties with Russia
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Mar 22, 2022 | News Roundup
Washington has imposed new sanctions on Chinese officials, saying they are in response to “repressive acts” against ethnic and religious minorities. The move comes just days after the Joe Biden administration threatened penalties over China’s continued relations with Russia.
News Roundup 3/18/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 18, 2022 | News Roundup
US News The spending bill includes a provision that prevents spies from working for foreign governments. [Link] Russia Secretary of State Antony Blinken says a US citizen was killed in Ukraine. [Link] Biden withdrew CIA paramilitaries from Ukraine last month. [Link]...
Against Public Interest, Supreme Court Protects Torture Cover-Up
by Jim Bovard | Mar 15, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Supreme Court declared last week that Americans have no right to learn the grisly details of CIA torture because the CIA has never formally confessed its crimes. The verdict symbolizes how the rule of law has become little more than a form of legal mumbo-jumbo to...
A Four-Step Guide to the Cancel Culture Playbook
by Thomas Eddlem | Mar 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
Cancel Culture only has a total of four plays in its playbook: Accuse of misinformation/fringe opinion Accuse of racism Accuse of sex abuse Accuse of national security threat/threat to democracy After that, they're out of plays. And Cancel Culture nearly always uses...
White House Says China Will Pay a Price for Supporting Russia
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Mar 13, 2022 | News Roundup
China will face major “consequences” should it help Russia evade an ever-growing raft of American sanctions, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan has warned, just a day before he’s set to meet with Beijing’s top diplomat in Rome. Sullivan’s warning on...
News Roundup 3/14/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 13, 2022 | News Roundup
Russia National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan says the US will respond if China helps Russia avoid sanctions. [Link] Sullivan says the US will respond to Russia over the killing of an American journalist in Ukraine. [Link] Sullivan warned Russia that NATO would...
After Ukraine, Is Taiwan Next?
by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 9, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
While the western world busts its own fingers googling the location of Ukraine, many newly-minted Ukrainian partisans have loudly predicted that China will capitalize on the crisis to finally invade Taiwan. Indeed, the day the Russian military began its so-called...
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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...
Economics Is about Individual Choice
"The light which the economic theorist can throw on an economic process, or on the outcome of such a process, is viewed as deriving from his ability to relate back the process to the individual acts of choice of which the process is made up. Through the theorist’s...
New WarNotes Podcast Episode is Live Monday 16 December 2024
Ep 005 "Fixing Fight Club: 21st Century Nuclear Renaissance" In this episode, a complete reassessment of American nuclear weapons has to be done. In the future near-peer and peer fight, nuclear weapons will be an option in the 21st century and no one can predict how...
How Far We’ve Come
"The conditions under which modern man of the capitalist West must act are different from those under which his primitive ancestors lived and acted. As a result of the providential care of our forebears we have at our disposal an ample stock of intermediate products...
The Vulnerable Capitalist
"Popular literature attributes enormous 'power' to the capitalist and considers his owning a mass of capital goods as of enormous significance, giving him a great advantage over other people in the economy. We see, however, that this is far from the case; indeed, the...
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