For Americans, the crux of gun control laws has been how to disarm dangerous individuals without disarming the public at large. Ever-present in this quest is the question of how the perception of danger should impact guaranteed freedoms protected within the Bill of...
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9/14/19 Robert Naiman on How Congress Could Stop the War in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Sep 17, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Robert Naiman explains why the Saudi-led war in Yemen, which Scott calls the worst thing the U.S. is doing right now, is unjust and unconstitutional. President Obama started to support the Saudis in their campaign during his second term, supposedly as a favor in...
New York Times Persists in Russia Election Hacking Conspiracy Theory
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Aug 20, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
“Russia Targeted Election Systems in All 50 States, Report Finds”, read the headline of a New York Times article published on July 25, 2019. In it, the Times asserted as fact that, during the 2016 US presidential election season, the Russian government attempted to...
8/2/19 Muhammad Sahimi on the Truth Behind Economic Sanctions
by Scott Horton | Aug 3, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Muhammad Sahimi about President Trump's new sanctions on Iran, which are even stricter than those imposed by President Obama, since they eliminate some of the previous waivers and cover even necessary goods like food and medicine because, even though...
Weapons of War On Our Streets: A Guide to the Militarization of America’s Police
by Sam Jacobs | Jul 15, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics
The claim often heard from those attempting to pass more gun control legislation is that all they’re trying to do is get the “weapons of war off our streets,” but it’s simply untrue that “weapons of war” are available to the general public. You’d last about three...
6/24/19 Trita Parsi on the Manufactured Threat of Iran’s Nuclear Program
by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Trita Parsi assesses the current risk of America going to war with Iran, given all the recent pressure from President Trump's advisers to do so. Parsi reminds us that America has no real reason to fear Iran's civilian nuclear program, since they were already...
Island Gun Laws: The History of Gun Control and Crime in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK
by Sam Jacobs | May 15, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
“We know that other countries in response to one mass shooting have managed to craft laws that almost eliminate mass shootings. Friends of ours, allies of ours, Great Britain, Australia, countries like ours. So we know there are ways to prevent it.” President Obama,...
Bodies and Blood in Libya
by Steven Woskow | May 8, 2019 | Blog
The US and it's allies unleashed this hell on the people of Libya. "Every night we are under air strikes,” says Ali breathlessly. He is a 22-year-old fighter from the coastal town of Zawiyah, and part of the loose military coalition from across western Libya that has...
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Terrestrial Speed Demon: Non-Nuclear Throw-Weight Comes of Age
Russians play chess and the West plays Naked Twister. ICBMs and IRBMs have been hyper-sonic since the 1950s. Replace the warhead with a terrestrial-launched Rod from God and you have a very effective non-nuclear option to reach anywhere in the northern hemisphere with...
Macgregor Steps Up to the Plate
COL Douglas Macgregor shows the stark choices ahead a defense establishment in the US and the west that is inexorably grinding to a halt in effectiveness and incompetence. The incoming President has three choices: 1. Allow service bureaucracies or external events to...
Mr Jarfart
Just think about this, whatever your child or your niece, nephew and some strangers kids are feeding their eyes with is likely attached to a clown or maybe a cynical conglomerate that knows social media and children fed algorithms will make them rich. Those little...
Free Trade Facts Don’t Matter to Democrats or Republicans
Both parties tend to ignore facts about the benefits of free trade because both parties oppose free trade.
The Government Had to Bankrupt Spirit Airlines to Save It
The US government is very good at destroying things on the pretense that its actions are required to save the things destroyed.
Paul Krugman: The Dollar Can’t Collapse! Unless…
The scenarios under which Krugman says the dollar could collapse are not hypothetical. They are already here.
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