The White House reversed course and now says a ceasefire in Lebanon cannot be contingent on a deal in Gaza Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Israel was prepared to send Lebanon back to the “Stone Age” with a massive bombing campaign. The White House desperately tries...
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House Votes To Bar State Department From Citing Gazan Health Ministry
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 28, 2024 | News
If passed into law, US diplomats would be unable to discuss casualty figures from Palestinian sources that are generally considered credible. During the debate of the State Department funding bill, the House added a provision that would bar American diplomats from...
Israeli DM: ‘Significant Progress’ Made in Removing Restrictions on US Arms Shipments
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 28, 2024 | News
US officials say a hold remains on a single shipment of heavy bombs Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant claimed he made “significant progress” on increasing the flow of weapons from the US to Tel Aviv. The White House has blocked one shipment of 2,000-pound bombs...
US Admits Allies in Syria Using Child Soldiers
by Will Porter | Jun 26, 2024 | News
The State Department has acknowledged that America’s top partner in Syria, the Kurdish-led “Syrian Democratic Forces” (SDF), is still using underage fighters
EU Approves Military Aid to Ukraine Drawn From Frozen Russian Assets
by Connor Freeman | Jun 26, 2024 | News
European Union foreign ministers have approved, for the first time, the transfer of approximately €1.4 billion ($1.5 billion) in military and financial aid to Kiev, using interest profits drawn from frozen Russian central bank assets.
FBI Requests 20-Year Wait Before Producing OKC Records
by Ken Silva | Jun 26, 2024 | Featured Articles, OKC
It’s been about nine years since Utah attorney Jesse Trentadue filed a Freedom of Information Act request for records about a CIA asset and FBI informant who helped fund the Oklahoma City bombing, as well as for records about a neo-Nazi bank-robbery gang also involved...
Russia Warns US ‘Retaliatory Measures Will Follow’ Deadly Attack on Crimea
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 25, 2024 | News
The Kremlin said the US has effectively become a party to the conflict In response to a deadly strike on the Crimean Peninsula that killed four and wounded over 100, the Russian Foreign Ministry said that Washington had effectively become a party to the war, and...
Israeli Defense Chief Heads to US to Discuss Next Phase of Wars in Lebanon, Gaza
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 24, 2024 | News
A prosecutor at the International Criminal Court is seeking an arrest warrant for Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant The Israeli defense minister Gallant is traveling to the US to discuss the next stage of the wars in Gaza and Lebanon. Washington is pushing for Tel...
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The Welfare-State Paradox
"Whether ... a system of social security is a good or a bad policy is essentially a political problem. One may try to justify it by declaring that the wage earners lack the insight and the moral strength to provide spontaneously for their own future. But then it is...
The Ford Follies: Yes, It Can Get Worse
Brent Eastwood does a splendid job elucidating so many of the problems of the fatally flawed Ford super-carrier. I suspect he had to say "promising" but there is nothing here for the 21st century; this is the chariot and crossbow of the next generation. This is the...
The Steady Rise in Living Standards
"The history of capitalism as it has operated in the last two hundred years in the realm of Western civilization is the record of a steady rise in the wage earners’ standard of living. The inherent mark of capitalism is that it is mass production for mass consumption...
Pentagon Acquisition: Rotten From Head to Toe
The pattern is a revolving door of deliberate insider trading and influence by hiring retiring flag officers with active Rolodexes to be exploited in bent bidding and shadowy acquisition practices in an already sclerotic and gummed-up acquisition system that can't...
The Business of America: War, War, War!
Sachs mentions Timber Sycamore which was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the CIA and supported by the United Kingdom and some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. The aim of the program was to remove Syrian president Bashar...
Mises on Wages under Capitalism
"While daily experience taught impressively that under capitalism real wage rates and the wage earners’ standard of living were steadily rising, while it became from day to day more obvious that the traditional walls separating the various strata of the population...
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