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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The Pause That Refreshes
I will be spending the holidays with my children and grandchildren at an undisclosed bunker location in the inland Rocky Mountain west and off the 'net until the new year when I will resume blogging at the Institute... Since I paused Chasing Ghosts and started...
Good Plan Means My Plan
"All this passionate praise of the supereminence of government action is but a poor disguise for the individual interventionist’s self-deification. The great god State is a great god only because it is expected to do exclusively what the individual advocate of...
Who Needs What?
"[I]t is evident ... that the man, who first made himself clothes and built himself a cabin, supplied himself with things which he did not much want, since he had lived without them till then; and why should he not have been able to support in his riper years, the...
Whose Plan?
"The alternative is not plan or no plan. The question is whose planning? Should each member of society plan for himself, or should a benevolent government alone plan for them all? The issue is not automatism versus conscious action; it is autonomous action of each...
What Full Liberalism Is Not About
"Liberalism is a doctrine directed entirely towards the conduct of men in this world. In the last analysis, it has nothing else in view than the advancement of their outward, material welfare and does not concern itself directly with their inner, spiritual and...
Greeks Refuse to Purchase Fifty Million Dollar Floating Dumpsters From the US Navy
These floating dumpsters cost the American taxpayer 500-600 million per ship. The US Navy is trying to garage sell these malfunctioning ships to Greece and they are onto the scam. The Greek Defense Minister is smarter than the average bear. Glad to see that even...
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