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.
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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...
On the Ground at DC’s Pro-Assange Protest
by Jim Bovard | Oct 10, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Saturday, protests supporting freedom for Julian Assange erupted around the world. In London, 7,000 protestors linked hands to surround the Parliament building, demanding that the United Kingdom not extradite Assange to the United States for a show trial. Protests...
COI #334: Biden Says World On Brink of Nuclear War
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 10, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #334, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover the latest escalations in the war in Ukraine as well as some recent news about the protests in Iran and the JCPOA. Kyle discusses President Joe Biden’s statement that we are closer today to nuclear “Armageddon” than...
This Week At The Libertarian Institute
by Will Porter | Oct 8, 2022 | News
The Empire never sleeps – but neither do we. Missed a story? We’ve got you covered. Check out this week in review at the Libertarian Institute.
Free Assange Movement Plans Global Protests Before Extradition to US
by Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman | Oct 7, 2022 | News
Supporters of journalist Julian Assange and freedom of the press are holding international protests on October 8th. The founder of Wikileaks is set to be extradited to the United States. Advocates for Assange say his conviction in an American courtroom would mean the...
9/23/22 Chip Gibbons on the CIA’s War on Assange
by Scott Horton | Sep 28, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott talks with journalist Chip Gibbons about an article he wrote for Jacobin that details the CIA’s 2019 plots to surveil, kidnap and even poison Julian Assange. First, Scott and Gibbons reflect on the impact of Assange and Wikileaks. They then...
Stop Trying to Rebrand Slavery
by Jim Bovard | Sep 27, 2022 | Featured Articles
When did slavery become so chic? From The New York Times to the Aspen Institute to a bevy of failed generals and weaselly ex-diplomats, the caterwauling for mandatory national service is rising. After decades in which political betrayals and federal failures destroyed...
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Scott Horton Talks Assange w/ the Great Danny Davis & Matt Hoh
Our very own Scott Horton joined Danny Davis and Matt Hoh to discuss the release of the heroic WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, who was freed from a UK prison on Monday. He spent five years there awaiting extradition on trumped up charges under the US Espionage Act.
Julian Assange and the Criminalization of Journalism
Julian Assange was persecuted for over a decade for heroically exposing the criminal organization in Washington, DC. His crime was doing journalism.
About Bloody Time They Let Him Go…BUT…
“About Bloody Time,” the common Aussie utters to the news that Assange is now free. They are letting Assange go free, to return to Australia. The condition was that he had to reach a plea deal. Admit he was guilty. A compromise that removes a man from his legal limbo,...
The Continuing US Icebreaker Fiasco
There will be no more new US icebreakers. There is no capability in the manufacturing base. There are no industrial design talent stacks or ability to build icebreakers that work under government contracts. The shipyard throughput is a little above zero. The Arctic is...
Kyle Anzalone on the Tom Woods Show!
Our very own news editor Kyle Anzalone has hit the Big Time. Check out his first (but surely not last) appearance on the Tom Woods Show, where he discussed all the latest in foreign policy news, from the Middle East to Eastern Europe.
The Yemeni Mouse That Roared
The picture above is the anti-ship missile employed by the Houthi in Yemen. American taxpayers have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on the world's most advanced naval force. The U.S.-led campaign against the Houthi rebels, overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war in...
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