The myth of the Afghan safe haven just won't die. In 2001, after the 9/11 attacks, the United States invaded Afghanistan and quickly smashed the Taliban government. It also killed hundreds of members of the al Qaeda group that had launched the attacks, although...
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2017 Review: Yemen
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 29, 2017 | Blog
On the night of Trump’s inauguration, he approved a raid on al-Qaeda in a village in central Yemen. Two Americans were killed in the raid: Chief Petty Officer Ryan Williams and 8-year-old Nawar Anwar al-Awlaki. Nawar was hit in the neck with a bullet and died in her...
News Roundup 12/27/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 27, 2017 | Blog
Will Grigg on the Christmas truce in 1914. [Link] A 14-year-old girl had been charged with child pornography for sending a nude photo of herself. [Link] James Bovard outlines waste and abuse at DHS. [Link] The FDA food recall process takes up to 10 months for the...
2017 Review: Syria
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 26, 2017 | Blog
In the lead up to the 2016 election, Candidate Trump talked a somewhat sensible policy on Syria. He wanted to end the support of rebels, and he preferred Assad to the jihadists, he desired to work with the Russians to achieve the shared goal of “knocking the hell out...
12/20/17 Matthew Hoh on Afghanistan and Trump's newest National Security Strategy
by Damon Hatheway | Dec 20, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Afghan war whistleblower Matthew Hoh returns to discuss the latest developments in Afghanistan, recalls his thought process when he blew the whistle in the lead up to Obama's surge, and describes the perverse incentives created by the military for advancement. Hoh...
12/20/17 Matthew Hoh on Afghanistan and Trump’s newest National Security Strategy
by Damon Hatheway | Dec 20, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Afghan war whistleblower Matthew Hoh returns to discuss the latest developments in Afghanistan, recalls his thought process when he blew the whistle in the lead up to Obama's surge, and describes the perverse incentives created by the military for advancement. Hoh...
News Roundup 12/15/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 15, 2017 | Blog
The FCC voted to repeal Net Neutrality regulations. [Link] The Walt Disney Company is attempting to acquire 21st Century Fox. [Link] In 2017, the US sold 58% of all global weapon sales. [Link] Nick Turse explains how Trump has expanded on the Obama policy of using...
Yemen’s Silent Numbers: Official Death Count Masks War’s Toll on Civilians
by Will Porter | Dec 11, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Nobody knows how many are dying in Saudi Arabia’s bombing campaign, rights groups say Faced with war, starvation and disease, the people of Yemen are suffering the worst humanitarian crisis on Earth. After over two years of active conflict, war monitors and human...
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The Worker as Free Person
"In the market economy the worker sells his services as other people sell their commodities. The employer is not the employee’s lord. He is simply the buyer of services which he must purchase at their market price. Of course, like every other buyer an employer too can...
Defund Government Money to Think Tanks That Don’t Think
A 2022 document. In service of the green agenda, the RANDians have lost their minds...again. Stop funding the RAND Corporation; zero out all government funding to it. https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RRA1500/RRA1524-2/RAND_RRA1524-2.pdf My...
Labor as Commodity
For the individual actor, "as for everyone, other people’s labor as offered for sale on the market is nothing but a factor of production. Man deals with other people’s labor in the same way that he deals with all scarce material factors of production. He appraises it...
WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast Debuts Soon
I am debuting an occasional broadcast called WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast in the next week. It allows me to expand my inquiry into the martial phenomenon beyond the strictures of the niche irregular warfare rubric I labor under in Chasing Ghosts. I’ll dabble in...
Failing Upward: PR Stunt Backfires
The genius public relations mandarins at the Joint F35 program office apparently can't identify the aircraft they have wasted hundreds of billions of dollars on. The picture above appears to be the Chinese J35 facsimile of the F35. You can't make this up. The chaos...
Why We Need to End the Federal Reserve System
A new short documentary from the Mises Institute explains how the Federal Reserve system enslaves us all.
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