The FCC looks to roll back Obama-era net neutrality regulations. [Link] Patrick Cockburn explains how the US and Saudi Arabia could cause war in the Middle East. [Link] The US has added nearly 14,000 troops and contractors to the Middle East in the past four months....
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Continued Intervention in South America
by Javier Quiros | Nov 21, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Despite his anti-establishment reputation, Trump is continuing the U.S. empire tradition of threatening regime change and meddling in other countries’ affairs, not only in the Middle East and Africa, but now with a focus on South America as well. The Trump...
Republican Tax Reform Plan: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
by Laurence Vance | Nov 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
Last month I did a preliminary libertarian analysis of the Republicans’ newest tax-reform plan. I concluded that their “Unified Framework For Fixing Our Broken Tax Code” left us with too many unanswered questions to render a verdict. Now the Republicans have issued...
Searching for a Doctor, Hair Stylist, and Auto Mechanic
by Craig Cantoni | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog
In preparing for our move this coming January from our current home in metro Phoenix to our new home in metro Tucson, my wife Kim and I were recently in Tucson to find a new family doctor, a new hair stylist for her, and a new auto mechanic. These were stressful...
Due Process Is Fading Away. Thank the National Security State
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Nov 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
Equating mere allegations of misconduct with definitive evidence is a growing habit in the United States. That tendency is most prevalent regarding national security matters, and the trend has been building since the onset of the so-called war on terror following the...
GOP Tax Plan Increases the Most Insidious Tax
by Ron Paul | Nov 6, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
Last Thursday, congressional Republicans unveiled their tax reform legislation. On the same day, President Trump nominated current Federal Reserve Board Governor Jerome Powell to succeed Janet Yellen as Federal Reserve chair. While the tax plan dominated the...
A Day in the Life of the Empire
by Charles Goyette | Nov 3, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On March 9, 2015 President Obama formally declared a new national emergency. Most Americans went about their business that day without ever suspecting that what the White House called “an unusual and extraordinary threat to our national security” had suddenly popped...
Going After Iran Would Confirm to the World the US Is a Rogue State
by Emma Ashford and John Glaser | Oct 11, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
During the 2017 presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump was open about his hostility toward Iran and his disdain for the Obama administration’s diplomacy with that country. Since January, the Trump administration has been engaged in an Iran policy review....
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The Shame of Veterans Day
A photograph taken on the morning of March 8, 1906, on the eastern crest of Bud Dajo. (John R. White Papers, Knight Library, University of Oregon) “Happy Veterans Day and thank you for your service” or “thanks for protecting our freedom.” The events at Bud Dajo in the...
Some Things Never Change
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.” --John Philpot Curran, Irish statesman, 1790
Anti-War Blog – Remember
The 11th of November, specifically at 11AM is a sacred time that has taken on a religious observance among the victorious of World War One. A time to officially remember those who died in that war and the many others since, often with the observation of silence for a...
Rust-Bucket Life Extension for the Win
Ticonderoga Class Arleigh Burke Class It seems counterintuitive but keeping old ships commissioned is expensive. Expertise on the hulls ages out and retires, technology moves on and maintenance demands increase and don't decrease. These life extensions are random and...
Censorship Down Under
The Australian parliament pushes through a bill that will now control access to social media. Like most censorship and prohibition acts it is done under the guise of child protection, the fear mongering used has been constant. Children can be groomed, manipulated and...
Right Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription
The populist Sanders-left (which is actually broader because it includes Tucker Carlson and others called rightists) is partly correct and partly incorrect about what happened to the Democrats last Tuesday. They say correctly that the Democrats failed because they...
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