https://youtu.be/d-sRdUT73-Q In war, State power is pushed to its ultimate, and, under the slogans of “defense” and “emergency,” it can impose a tyranny upon the public such as might be openly resisted in time of peace. War thus provides many benefits to a State, and...
Politics
Talk of Secession is the ‘New Normal’
by José Niño | Feb 23, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
Secession is a four-letter word for the millions of Americans who have gone through the conventional educational pipeline that teaches them that the American state is indivisible and sacrosanct. However, intellectually honest historians whose minds haven’t been warped...
Another Bogus Impeachment
by Jim Bovard | Feb 22, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
The Senate impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump confirms historian Henry Adams's adage a century ago that politics “has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.” The impeachment process was a farce that should fortify Americans’ disdain for...
2/18/21 Phil Weiss on BDS, Biden and Israel’s Apartheid State
by Scott Horton | Feb 18, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Phil Weiss is back to discuss Israel, beginning with the observation us that now that the two-state solution is essentially off the table for good, it's impossible to ignore the fact that Israel is an apartheid state that has enshrined in law its subjugation of the...
The Truth About U.S. Foreign Policy. Scott Horton and Keith Knight.
by Keith Knight | Feb 18, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpAs8tIkKso BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/fsuFv4muLBqT/ LBRY: https://lbry.tv/@KeithKnightDontTreadOnAnyone:b/The-Truth-About-U.S.-Foreign-Policy.-Scott-Horton---Keith-Knight.:2 Archive:...
The Banned Books of the Cold War-Era Soviet Union
by Kym Robinson | Feb 17, 2021 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”- George R. R. Martin The authoritarian nature of the Soviet Union has been buried by apologist revisionism and has been romanced in the...
The Establishment Will Never Let Us Leave Afghanistan
by Andrew Bacevich | Feb 12, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
With the 20th anniversary of the Afghanistan war now just around the corner, Americans might reasonably wonder whether the nation’s longest war is ever going to end. After carefully considering the question, two retired four-star generals, two former U.S. senators,...
Cooperation vs. Coercion, Society vs. Government. James Harrigan and Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Feb 11, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/hi9b0pddQ5M ... in a world of voluntary social cooperation through mutually beneficial exchanges, where one man’s gain is another man’s gain, it is obvious that great scope is provided for the development of social sympathy and human friendships. It...
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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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