Iranian FM emphasizes strikes were proportionate self-defense US officials have confirmed that they were given advance notice Tuesday night before Iranian missile strikes against bases hosting US troops, part of what is seen as a concerted efforts to avoid casualties....
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Operation Fast and Furious: The Forgotten History of the ATF’s Notorious Gunwalking Scandal
by Sam Jacobs | Dec 14, 2019 | Featured Articles
The ATF isn’t all bad. In fact, they had a policy of letting illegal gun purchases go between 2006 and 2011. It ended up getting U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry killed on December 14, 2010, and let Mexican criminals get enough guns that they were found at over...
Trump’s Trade Policy Has Produced Damaging Tariffs but Little Else
by Daniel Griswold | Dec 4, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Farm exports to China are down, manufacturing job growth has stalled, and prices are up for many goods Americans are about to enter the third full year of President Donald Trump’s aggressive tariff regime, which aims to promote US manufacturing, protect key...
10/31/19 Dan Cohen on America’s Treasonous Support for Revolution in Syria
by Scott Horton | Nov 2, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Dan Cohen discusses what he calls one of the greatest scandals in modern American history, America's role in helping start the Syrian civil war. Under President Obama, says Cohen, the CIA started funding and arming the "moderate rebels," who actually were mostly...
Julian Assange Breaks Into Tears as He Is Denied Delay in Extradition Trial
by Dave DeCamp | Oct 21, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in court today in London in hopes of delaying his US extradition case. The judge told Assange he will not have any extra time to gather evidence to help his case, and the hearing will start in February as planned. Reports of...
Washington Is Wrong Once Again – Kurds Join Assad To Defend Syria
by Ron Paul | Oct 14, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When President Trump Tweeted last week that “it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous endless wars,” adding that the US would be withdrawing from Syria, Washington went into a panic. Suddenly Republicans, Democrats, the media, the think tanks, and the war...
The Moment
by Kym Robinson | Oct 4, 2019 | Featured Articles
As an outsider, I had found the ritual of US presidential elections to be fascinating, a helpless voyeur watching how the ebb and flow of war and peace may unfold for the coming years. By that time, I had lost interest in voting, I had become cynical and jaded wary...
Snowden Under Attack by U.S. Government Once Again
by David Nelson | Oct 1, 2019 | Featured Articles
Whistleblower and American hero Edward Snowden is being sued by the Department of Justice over the release of his new book, Permanent Record. The DOJ claims that the contents of the book violate a non-disclosure agreement Snowden allegedly signed when he worked as an...
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Anti-War Blog – She Was Only Ten Years Old
She was only ten years of age. A girl. A daughter. Innocent. Tala Abu Ajwa was roller skating in early September when Israeli government missiles took her life, along with several other civilians. The image of Tala’s pink roller skates still attached to her young body...
CG Announcement November 2024
Me contemplating the Herculean task before me... I will be pausing Chasing Ghosts from its fortnightly cadence of issuance for the remainder of the year. I am taking the time to regroup and focus on the new occasional podcast, WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast as a...
Economics and Everyday Life
"[T]he general principles which regulate our conduct in business are identical with those which regulate our deliberations, our selections between alternatives, and our decisions, in all other branches of life. And this is why we not only may, but must, take our...
The Government Is Full of Domestic Imperialists | Guest: Keith Knight | Ep 306
https://youtu.be/1wmTo16dWck As the Cabinet appointees within the incoming Trump administration take shape, there is cause for hope among libertarians, as well as some cause for concern. Matt Kibbe is joined by Keith Knight, managing editor at the Libertarian...
Want to Know What’s REALLY Happening in Ukraine? Plus, Netanyahu’s Arrest Warrant! Watch Episode 1 of The Kyle Anzalone Show
In the first episode of The Kyle Anzalone Show, I explore global conflicts, focusing on the ICC's war crimes charges against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. I question whether justice will be served and highlight the...
The SANDF is a Military Dumpster Fire
The South African National Defense Force (SANDF) is in tatters. The SA Navy is also in the hazard. One glaring example is the MTU 1163 propulsion engine. Grimms was paid R55 million for a W6 engine overhaul, yet the engine has still not undergone a dyno test or no...
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