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Manchester Bomber Motivated by “Revenge” not Religion

by Eric Schuler | May 25, 2017 | Blog

A new Wall Street Journal profile of the suspected Manchester, UK terrorist Salman Abedi offers our first clues into the motive for the deadly attack. And while we still don't have all the details, it appears that the motivation was not religion. The WSJ piece is...

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia: A US Ally or Danger to the World?

by Phillip Parrish | May 24, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Donald Trump was in the news over the weekend because he made his first foreign trip to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. President Trump and his family were greeted at the airport by King Salman, who rode to the Ritz Carlton hotel with the President. Later in the...

Maintaining the Swamp

by Will Porter | Mar 7, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

In a key foreign policy speech on the campaign trail, Donald Trump vowed that war and aggression would not be his first instincts as president. While that drew measured praise from many non-interventionists, the new administration has already begun to crush any hope...

2/22/17 Brad Hoff on US plans for Syrian regime change in the 1980s – eerily similar to today

by Scott Horton | Feb 22, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Brad Hoff, a US Marine veteran and writer on Middle East affairs, discusses the newly declassified CIA document from 1986 entitled "Syria: Scenarios of Dramatic Political Change," that spells out a regime change policy remarkably similar to today's anti-Assad rhetoric...

Don’t Rebrand the ‘Countering Violent Extremism’ Program—Just End It

by Jesse Walker | Feb 3, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice

The question shouldn't be which groups the program ought to target. It's whether the program should exist at all. For the Southern Poverty Law Center, the move suggests that "President Trump wants the government to stop its efforts to prevent terrorism by far-right...

Trump’s Foreign Policy: An Unwise Inconsistency?

by Ron Paul | Jan 25, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Throughout the presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s foreign policy positions have been anything but consistent. One day we heard that NATO was obsolete and the US needs to pursue better relations with Russia. But the next time he spoke, these sensible positions were...

Trump’s Team Should Ditch the ‘Clash of Civilizations’

by Emma Ashford | Dec 11, 2016 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

If there is one common thread that connects President-elect Donald Trump’s foreign-policy appointments, it is the belief that the United States is engaged in a civilizational war against “radical Islamic terrorism.” Indeed, while Trump himself—with his ambivalence...

The Coming War on ‘Radical Islam’

by Uri Friedman | Dec 2, 2016 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

In the fall of 1990—around the time U.S. troops arrived in Saudi Arabia, enraging Osama bin Laden—the historian Bernard Lewis sounded an alarm in The Atlantic about brewing anti-Americanism in the Muslim world. “[W]e are facing a mood and a movement far transcending...

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The Aircraft Carrier is the Crossbow and Chariot of the Modern Age

The US Navy, of course, is desperately trying to get authorization to build more Ford-class carriers. Ironic that they name the carrier after a violence broker famous for being rather clumsy and unable to navigate around. The first of class doesn't work properly: it...

Here’s an Idea

If you can't tell the difference between 2024 America and 1930s Germany, let's not have a conversation, okay?

Meanwhile, Over in Sadist Land

Palestinian baby rescued from dead mother’s womb dies in Gaza hospital

Kyle Anzalone on Judge Nap: US Troops to Ukraine?

Watch Kyle's latest appearance on Judge Napolitano's show 'Judging Freedom.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG37NaExv_0

If Israel’s Apologists Insist ‘From the River to the Sea’ Is Genocidal…

Apologists for Israel’s genocide in Gaza reject freedom for Palestinians and insist on Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish supremacist state.

I Met a Man

Located nearly three hours drive from Adelaide, the property rested in the South-East. The nearest township a good thirty minutes if you pushed your vehicle over dirty unselaed road. It was a job that a mate threw my way, help out some old timers that he knew through...

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