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5/13/22 David Stockman on Washington’s Military Keynesianism

by Scott Horton | May 14, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. Scott interviews David Stockman about the war in Ukraine and the American economy. They begin by discussing the war in Ukraine. Stockman argues that the irrational motivator behind Washington’s actions is Trump-Derangement Syndrome — that Putin is...

‘America First’ Means Anti-Bush, Not Antiwar

by David Brady | May 12, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics

Donald Trump, despite not being perfect (far from it), was useful in making the idea of chronic interventionism and foreign entanglements unpopular, but as much credit as the New Right is given, they are hardly antiwar. The New Right is largely a rejection of the...

Joe Biden Blames Everyone for Inflation (Except Himself)

by Ryan McMaken | May 11, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics

Speaking at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, President Joe Biden on Tuesday morning declared inflation to be his top “domestic priority” and insisted that inflation would not be a problem were it not for covid and the war in Ukraine. There was little room,...

The War in Ukraine and the ‘Star Wars Effect’

by John Weeks | May 10, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

The American media’s Ukraine narrative is a vast deception that functions as a reassuring fantasy. The facts on the ground in Ukraine have overwhelmed the narrative being deployed in the West, but the American media simply ignores those facts. The effect is to placate...

Europe Is Trapping Itself Through Monetary Manipulation

by Tom Luongo | May 9, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

There’s a lot of news flying around about the changes happening in global currency trading. From “Gas for Rubles” to “What the Hell is Going on With the Yen?” there are a lot of questions and very few answers as to what it all means and whose on which side of the...

Biden Speaks with German Leader Scholz Amid Kiev-Berlin Tensions

by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | May 6, 2022 | News Roundup

The United States and Germany will reject all Russian territorial claims in Ukraine, leaders from both countries said during a recent phone call, as relations between Berlin and Kiev plumb new depths over alleged close ties between the German president and his Russian counterpart.

News Roundup 5/3/2022

by Kyle Anzalone | May 3, 2022 | News Roundup

US News A judge grants qualified immunity to police officers who arrested and held a man for operating a parody Facebook account. [Link] The FBI conducted nearly 2 million warrantless searches using Russian cyber threats as an excuse. [Link] Lawmakers will likely...

US Declares Support for Venezuela Regime Change Effort

by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | May 3, 2022 | News Roundup

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Washington would continue to back Juan Guaido’s claim to power in Venezuela. The statement came just weeks after the White House held talks with Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro.

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Anti-War Blog – Osama Bin Laden won

Bin Laden Won He won and the US warmasters are celebrating. Imagine rejoicing after a government falls to the descendants of Al-Qaeda. We don’t have to because the Washington gang are doing just that. The Islamo-Fascist Jihadis who terrorised the minds of the West for...

We Can’t Consume Our Way to Prosperity

Once upon a time, John Stuart Mill could write these words truthfully ("Of the Influence of Consumption on Production," 1844): It is no longer supposed that you benefit the producer by taking his money, provided you give it to him again in exchange for his goods. He...

Pearl Harbor: Not What You May Think it Was

I have always had my doubts but Jane Shaw brings the receipts. RedDR needed the war because his communist takeover of America was failing bigly and a war empowered government like nothing else. A decade ago I began to research the history of the Pearl Harbor attack....

Anyone Can Be a Capitalist, part 2

"It might be argued that only the 'rich' can afford to be capitalists, i.e., those who have a greater amount of money stock. This argument has superficial plausibility, since ... for any given individual and a given time-preference schedule, a greater money stock will...

Anyone Can Be a Capitalist, part 1

"[A]ny man can be a capitalist if only he wants to be. He can derive his funds solely from the fruits of previous capitalist investment or from past 'hoarded' cash balances or solely from his income as a laborer or a landowner. He can, of course, derive his funds from...

Billion Dollar Disasters Continue to Steam Ahead

Word. The Zumwalt-class destroyer will never be the battleship of the twenty-first century. It’s the U.S. Navy’s version of the Russian Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier. Yet another multi-billion dollar failure. Yet, the instant that the Zumwalt-class appears to...