The U.S. city of Memphis, Tennessee released several videos on Friday showing the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols by police. Nichols, a 29-year-old black FedEx worker who had been stopped for reckless driving, succumbed to his wounds in the aftermath of the incident....
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News Roundup 1/25/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 25, 2023 | News Roundup
Russia The Biden administration is now leaning toward sending its M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine despite recent comments from Pentagon officials about how they would be difficult for Ukrainian forces to maintain, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. AWC The risk of...
FBI COINTELPRO Is Back, And Worse Than Ever
by Jim Bovard | Dec 27, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Elon Musk has opened the floodgates to expose the FBI’s latest war on Americans’ freedom of speech. The FBI massively intervened to pressure Twitter to suppress accounts and tweets from individuals the FBI disapproved of, including parody accounts. The FBI and other...
New Jersey Resident Exposes Totalitarian Implications of Facial Recognition
by Michael Maharrey | Dec 27, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
When we warn about the growing pervasiveness of facial recognition systems, people often shrug and say, “it’s no big deal if you have nothing to hide.” The experience of a New Jersey woman illustrates the dangerous flaw in that thinking. Kelly Conlon went to New York...
Washington Erases Red Lines, Escalates Proxy War with Russia
by Connor Freeman | Dec 15, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since the Cuban Missile Crisis, the possibilities of nuclear war have never been higher. The American ruling class and NATO picked a fight with Russia on its borders and have sought to use Ukraine as a human battering ram to “weaken” Moscow, eying a larger, future...
Some Aussie Songs Against the Wars
by Kym Robinson | Dec 14, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Music can be powerful, possessing the ability to conjure emotion in a few minutes what an essay never could. Australia has a rich history of talented singers, writers, and performers creating music that is unique to the sunburned continent. Australia also has a rebel...
Resisting Tyranny, Colonial Style
by Michael Maharrey | Nov 21, 2022 | Featured Articles
As the British put increased pressure on the American colonists in an effort to force them into submission, the colonists backed up their increasingly forceful rhetoric with concrete actions to undermine British authority. The colonists began perfecting this formula...
11/11/22 Muhammad Sahimi on the Iranian Protests and the Risk of Foreign Intervention
by Scott Horton | Nov 16, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. On Antiwar Radio this past Sunday, Scott was joined by Muhammad Sahimi to discuss the protests in Iran. Sahimi gives some background about how the brutal death of Mahsa Amini after she had been detained by Iranian morality police sparked protests...
US Treasury Secretary: India, China Won’t Be Subject to Price Cap on Russian Oil
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 14, 2022 | News
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Washington would be happy to see New Delhi continue to buy oil from Moscow at a price above a G7-imposed price ceiling set to take effect next month. The announcement came after India declared it would buy oil from Russia and ignore the price cap.
India Pledges to Buy More Russian Oil as West Seeks to Isolate Moscow
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 8, 2022 | News
Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar says his country has no plans to stop importing Russian energy. The statement was made as Western countries plan to roll out price caps on Moscow’s oil exports next month.
Betrayal of the American Left
by Dan McKnight | Oct 31, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
I’m sure most of you remember the liberal protests against George Bush’s invasion of Iraq. They were big, they were loud, they were sometimes rude. And I can’t vouch for all of their hairstyle choices. But they were right. The invasion of Iraq was a criminal...
Czech Protesters Rail Against Inflation, Sanctions & Ukraine Proxy War
by Connor Freeman | Oct 29, 2022 | News
Amid ever-escalating tensions over the West’s proxy war in Ukraine and the devastating inflation ripping Europe apart, Czech protesters gathered in Prague demanding the coalition government’s resignation, the Associated Press reported.
Congress, NGOs Pressure White House to Sanction Africans
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Oct 24, 2022 | News
The Joe Biden administration is resisting pressure from Congress and humanitarian orgs to blacklist African leaders, Robbie Gramer reported in Foreign Policy. Lawmakers and several NGOs have argued the sanctions are needed to punish human rights abuses across the continent.
News Roundup 10/18/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 17, 2022 | News Roundup
Haiti The US has drafted a UN Security Council resolution calling for the deployment of an international force to help the Haitian government quell protests and unrest, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. AWC The US and Canada sent Haiti armored vehicles and...
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Reminder: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Almost Started a World War Based on a Lie
On November 15th, the Associated Press reported that "A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people". Since Poland is a member of the North American Treaty Organization, that would mean that America along...
Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
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