Wednesday morning Trump announced new sanctions on Iran rather than sending in the B-52s in response to Iran's missile attack response to America's killing of their top general Qassem Soleimani. So that's wrong but sure could be worse. Then he declared that the UN...
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Australia and New Zealand Show the True Nature of Social Security
by Laurence Vance | Jan 7, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
Writing at the Christian Post in “Will Social Security Go Broke?” Christian financial advisor Chuck Bentley recently answered a question about Social Security from a “Worried Millennial”: I’m a recent college graduate with my first “real” job. With that comes paying...
News Roundup 1/7/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 7, 2020 | News Roundup
US News The Idaho Republican Party passed two antiwar resolutions at the direction of Afghan and Iraq War vets. [Link] Iranian-Americans attempting to enter the US are facing additional questions, long detentions, and questions of their loyalty to the US. [Link] Over...
The Central Details of the Soleimani Assassination
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 6, 2020 | Blog
What happened? On January 3rd, the US used drone strikes to assassinate the leader of Iran’s Quds Force, General Qasem Soleimani, at Baghdad Airport. The airstrike also killed Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) deputy Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis and several other...
Nullify Government Tyranny: In 2020, Harness the Power of Your Discontent
by John Whitehead | Jan 3, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice
Twenty years into the 21st century, and what do we have to show for it? Government corruption, tyranny and abuse have propelled us at warp speed towards a full-blown police state in which egregious surveillance, roadside strip searches, police shootings of unarmed...
Big Spender Trump Is Drowning in His Swamp
by Jacob Hornberger | Jan 2, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics
First it was the generals who took control over U.S. foreign policy, preventing President Trump from bringing the troops home from the Middle East and Afghanistan, as he said he was going to do. And now, it’s the federal bureaucracy that has absorbed Trump. According...
Examples of Dedication to Freedom
by Richard Ebeling | Jan 1, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
When Austrian economist Friedrich A. Hayek (1899–1992) wrote his famous book The Road to Serfdom (1944) in the midst of the Second World War, he mentioned in the preface that he had often been told by his socialist colleagues that he would, no doubt, hold an important...
“Rules of Origin” Show Why Trade Agreements Aren’t Free Trade
by Robert Murphy | Dec 31, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Ludwig von Mises famously argued that people must choose between outright socialism and unfettered capitalism, because there is no coherent “middle ground” between the two. The allegedly reasonable compromise of a highly interventionist state — where the authorities...
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Fiji Follies Mimic First World Navigation Problems
There are now eight (there were nine before this disaster) total patrol vessels in the navy of Fiji; this is simply negligence and lack of proper training much like the US Navy collisions in 2017. It is extraordinarily expensive to reconstitute a vessel that has...
Up in Smoke: The Other Space Race Continues
A comprehensive ban on all nuclear testing occurred in the 1990s. The Soviet Union's last nuclear test took place on 24 October 1990; the United Kingdom's on 26 November 1991 and the United States' on 23 September 1992. Advances in the ICBM arena have continued apace...
Robert Fisk – The Road to Palestine – Anti-War Blog
In Part Two of his Three part series, From Beirut to Bosnia, Robert Fisk gives detail to the tragedy of Palestine. As it was then when the series was made, 1993, the people of Palestine had already suffered tremendously. A lost people, those blamed for the crimes of...
New Book Is A Must Read For Iraq War 2 Enthusiasts
Iraq War 2 is ancient history, like Athens’ defeat at Aegospotami or the NATO-Russia Founding Act. But for some of us, it seems like only yesterday we were being lied into one of the greatest geopolitical disasters of the Western imperial order. There’s a new book...
It’s a Crazy World
What's to be said about people who grieve over the deaths of Palestinian children in Gaza at the hands of the U.S.-backed Israeli military while simultaneously cheering the Mengele-style wrecking of children's lives in America and elsewhere at the hands of...
Fat Amy Can’t Catch a Break
Fat Amy is a nickname for the F35 Lightning II. As long as an F16 and comparable in weight to a heavy class F15, the F35 isn't necessarily a light aircraft. Flying cost per hour may have been reduced to $34,000 per hour. Maybe. The mission capable rate, the percentage...
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