Stephen Zunes talks about Joe Biden's shameful history helping to advocate for the invasion of Iraq in 2002 and 2003. These days he claims he was caught up in the aftermath of 9/11 and was simply mistaken about the intelligence, like everyone else who voted for the...
Politics
Greater Idaho Movement Is the Latest Indicator of a Shift toward Decentralization
by José Niño | Mar 11, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Recently disgruntled residents of rural counties in southwest Oregon have been organizing a petition to move Idaho’s border westward to form a “Greater Idaho” that could also potentially include parts of Northern California. This petition...
Year Zero 101: A Direct Republic with Donnie Gebert
by Tommy Salmons | Mar 10, 2020 | Blog, Year Zero
Donnie Gebert of the Direct Republic podcast and author of The Null Hypothesis of Politics joined Tommy for episode 101. Donnie's idea of a Direct Republic, decentralization down to the individual, was thought up within a mind trained and educated by the DOD to topple...
The Reality of the Wuhan Novel Coronavirus
by Zack Sorenson | Mar 8, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
Exponential functions. Understand this, and you’ll grasp the reality of the Wuhan Novel Coronavirus from China. I know math sucks, but if you can get this, you’ll lift the fog on just how bad this is. With the Novel Coronavirus (called SARS-CoV-2), some speculate that...
Separation of Economy and State
by Keith Knight | Mar 8, 2020 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHQdldtKPRo&t=4s If a group of people do not coercively monopolize how a country thinks, won't people think bad thoughts thus do bad things? Shouldn't we have common sense thought control? If this "cure" seems worse than the...
2/28/20 Peter Van Buren on Russiagate II and the Coronavirus Panic
by Scott Horton | Feb 28, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Peter Van Buren about the resurgence of the narrative that Russia is interfering in American elections, this time in the form of apparent support both for Trump's reelection and for Bernie Sanders to get the Democratic nomination. Van Buren notes that...
It’s the Bureaucracy, Genius: How Bureaucracy Has Lowered Productivity and Income
by Craig Cantoni | Feb 26, 2020 | Featured Articles
The supposed brightest minds, educated in the supposed best universities, can’t figure out why American productivity has languished in this era of technological innovation, resulting in income growth being lower than it would otherwise be. Well, my mediocre mind came...
The WTO Is Both Irrelevant and Unnecessary
by Ryan McMaken | Feb 26, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is in a state of crisis. Despite grandiose dreams of a global trade organization that would enforce global bureaucrats' broad vision for multilateral trade agreements, the world looks more and more like it neither wants nor needs an...
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ICJ Declares Israel’s Occupation Illegal
The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel’s prolonged occupation of Palestinian territory violates international law.
What a strange fetish it all is…
Is it a fetish? There are some fascinating memes and clips doing the rounds of Trump lately. The populist appeal has become silly. The trouble is that some supposedly serious people are unironically aroused by it all. Then again, maybe it’s just for the LOLs? Grown...
Tariffs Violate Freedom
Debate goes on over who suffers from U.S. tariffs. Biden and Trump, for example, think U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods hurt China, not Americans. This is nonsense. Even if they hurt Chinese producers (who can sell their goods elsewhere), the tariffs still hurt...
If Pigs Could Fly: The F35 Continues to Miss the Mark
The Pentagon will continue to pay Bugatti prices for Yugos until the morale improves. Software upgrades have haunted this flying circus since its "full operational status" was fabricated years ago. The combination of a severely Sovietized acquisition system married to...
The Empire Strikes Back: Soldiering and Brain Injury
Whatever empires do abroad eventually comes home. Yet another unintended consequences come home in a tidal wave. This is personal; I was diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury in 2019. I spent nearly a quarter century in the US military. I know there's a connection....
US Surface Navy is No Longer a Global Force
The US Navy may credibly dominate the Atlantic but the Pacific Ocean is no longer an exclusive US naval domination calculus. The Arctic is still dominated by the Russians and will remain so. The US Navy's ability to build functioning surface ships is compromised...
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