It's a matter of national security! CNBC: "How a tiny flatware manufacturer in upstate New York could win big from $738 billion defense bill": “Manufacturing in general is a strategic asset for our country,” Roberts said. “If you can’t make things, you rely on other...
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Only American to lead FBI and CIA says Trump presents ‘dire threat’ to country
by Scott Horton | Dec 16, 2019 | Blog
Of course he does. He's a president of the U.S. government after all. But man, either the National Security State has the dumbest PR department in history or Trump has the most brilliant one. But he probably couldn't really afford to pay them what it would cost for...
12/13/19 Jerrod Laber on America’s Futile War in Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Dec 14, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Jerrod Laber about the status of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan following the Washington Post's release of their "Afghanistan Papers" last week. Laber thinks that if and when American troops leave, things are sure to get worse in the short term. The...
Betraying the Constitution
by John Whitehead | Dec 11, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
“It is the responsibility of the patriot to protect his country from its government.”—Thomas Paine While Congress subjects the nation to its impeachment-flavored brand of bread-and-circus politics, our civil liberties continue to die a slow, painful death by a...
US-Israeli Defense Pact
by Steven Woskow | Dec 5, 2019 | Blog
The Jerusalem Post is reporting that Netanyahu and Pompeo are close to finalizing a National Defense Pact between the US and Israel that was created by The Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA). JINSA is the think tank founded by Michael Ledeen. ...
Betraying the Constitution: Who Will Protect Us from an Unpatriotic Patriot Act?
by John Whitehead | Dec 4, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
While Congress subjects the nation to its impeachment-flavored brand of bread-and-circus politics, our civil liberties continue to die a slow, painful death by a thousand cuts. Case in point: while Americans have been fixated on the carefully orchestrated impeachment...
Send Thanksgiving Greetings to Chelsea Manning, Heroic Whistleblower In Jail
by Jim Bovard | Nov 27, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
Working with Wikileaks almost a decade ago, Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning provided some of the most damning revelations on U.S. foreign policy and military atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan. Trump’s Justice Department indicted Wikileaks’...
The Real Bombshell of the Impeachment Hearings
by Ron Paul | Nov 25, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics
The most shocking thing about the House impeachment hearings to this point is not a “smoking gun” witness providing irrefutable evidence of quid pro quo. It’s not that President Trump may or may not have asked the Ukrainians to look into business deals between...
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Richman Interviewed on “Ideas Having Sex”
Chris Kaufman interviewed me about my book What Social Animals Owe to Each Other on his podcast Ideas Having Sex. Listen here or on your podcast platform.
US Navy Follies: The Other Ghost Fleet
The US Navy and Marines have not conducted an amphibious assault on contested beach since Inchon in Korea (10-19 September 1950 although arguably the last major contested amphibious campaign in May of 1945 of Okinawa) and have practically abandoned surface maritime...
Anti-War Blog – Be Proud
Proud mother come and see what your soldier sons are doing, see them search crying children who no longer can walk the streets to go from home to school. They kidnap little boys, to torture or imprison. Maybe they shatter their arms and send them on their way. Cry for...
The Culture of Lying and Deceit in the US Army
It's not just the Army and all the services practice this level of institutional cravenness and dishonesty. Deceit and covering up errors is a long time practice in the US uniformed armed forces. The article is older but more true over time. The gravest peril of the...
Manned Tanks: Stop Building These Things
Arguably one of the best manned tanks ever made, the refurbished M1 Abrams is not faring well in the Ukraine and it is estimated the UKR forces have lost 20 of the 31 tanks supplied to them. This is not only a result of inadequate training, immature doctrine and...
Lead-bottom: McHale’s Navy Comes of Age in the 21st Century
USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE-11) 2020 The US Navy continues to go the way of the Royal Navy from a storied force in history to a surface fleet plagued with problems and seemingly incapable of getting anything right as we have documented in these pages at the...
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