The EU’s return to the Iran nuclear talks in Vienna appears to have borne fruit, as after just four days they have submitted what they are calling the final text that tackled everything.
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Baby Formula: How Government Regulations Cause Shortages. Eric Boehm & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | May 28, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/lNYVQ14SHiM ...[I]mports of infant formula are subject to tariff-rate quotas of 17.5 percent after certain thresholds are met. As the name suggests, tariff-rate quotas are meant to be set high enough that they effectively block additional imports by...
Salafis Throwing Bombs: How American and British Planners Partnered With Al-Qaeda Affiliated Groups At the Start of the Syrian Civil War
by William Van Wagenen | Dec 28, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
For One Day, Protestors Stopped the War Machine
by Jim Bovard | Dec 27, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
I’ve attended most of the major antiwar protests in Washington since 9/11. At a 2005 protest, a cop tried to whack me on the head with a wooden pole. At a 2007 protest, I snapped a picture showing George W. Bush hanging next to the U.S. Capitol. But my favorite...
Episode 622: The Power Of Media Narrative w/ Auron MacIntyre
by Peter R. Quiñones | Aug 26, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
67 Minutes PG-13 Auron MacIntyre is a podcaster and a former reporter. Auron joins Pete to give his unique, 'reactionary,' perspective on everything from the founding, to WW1 and the current CV19 regime. He talks about how the Press not only controls the narrative,...
Krystal and Saager Interview Matt Taibbi On The FBI Setup of General Mike Flynn
by Steven Woskow | May 5, 2020 | Blog
Author and Reporter for Rolling Stone, Matt Taibbi shares insight on newly released documents about the government's handling of Michael Flynn's case and, "Russiagate." https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=460&v=1ppMzbmJQhY&feature=emb_logo
The Coming Coronavirus Critical-Care Emergency
by Scott Horton | Mar 18, 2020 | Blog
A New Yorker reporter has been talking to authors of studies about numbers of ICU beds available around the U.S. There will almost certainly be chaos and triage in hospitals around the country.
Nominally Free
by Scott Horton | Feb 17, 2020 | Blog
In this Washington Post piece about their Orwellian task master Jeff Bezos and Amazon's growing dominance over whathaveyou, the reporter refers offhand to America as a "nominally free" society. Sounds right.
It’s a Metaphor, You Idiots
by Scott Horton | Dec 22, 2019 | Blog
Clint Eastwood is not saying that Atlanta Journal reporter Kathy Scruggs traded sex for new stories. He's saying that she was a whore. This is entirely accurate. And she was not alone. Kathy Scruggs was and will always be a disgrace to journalism and humanity. Just...
NYT Reporter, Former Marine, Thomas Gibbons-Neff Writes About His War in Marjah
by Scott Horton | Sep 20, 2019 | Blog
What a waste. Getting a good reporter out of the whole deal isn't much consolation, but we'll have to settle.
This Isn’t Going To Fit The Current Narrative
by Steven Woskow | Aug 15, 2019 | Blog
More calls for gun control after Philadelphia standoff with police but this man was a convicted felon. What specific laws could have stopped him since he was apparently undeterred by laws we currently have - confiscation, ending all gun sales, tougher sentencing...
Yemeni Video Journalist Maad al-Zekri Denied US Visa to Attend Pulitzer Ceremony
by Steven Woskow | May 29, 2019 | Blog
Maad al-Zekri, Maggie Michael, and Nariman El-Mofty won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and the Atlantic Media's 16th Annual Michael Kelly award for their reporting on the war in Yemen. The reporters were honored for their heroic work covering the...
The Great Jordan Smith
by Scott Horton | Dec 20, 2018 | Blog
She used to be an investigative reporter for the Austin Chronicle, but now she reports on the wrongly convicted for the Intercept. Here, she and also-great reporter Liliana Segura launch a new podcast called Murderville, GA about a man wrongly convicted of being a...
Seymour Hersh’s New Memoir Is a Fascinating, Flabbergasting Masterpiece
by A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner | Jun 4, 2018 | Featured Articles, Politics
At the beginning of Seymour Hersh’s new memoir, “Reporter,” he tells a story from his first job in journalism, at the City News Bureau of Chicago. City News stationed a reporter at Chicago’s police headquarters 24 hours a day to cover whatever incidents were radioed...
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Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
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