President Joe Biden signed an executive order allowing Washington to blacklist Israeli settlers that attack Palestinians in the West Bank. Over the past four months, there has been widespread violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, killing nearly 100 children...
Sanctions
News Roundup 2/1/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 1, 2024 | News Roundup
Haiti Kenyan President Says Force Can Be Deployed to Haiti as Early as Next Week The Institute Venezuela Venezuela Threatens to Block Deportation Flights from US If Biden Moves Forward with Sanctions WSJ State Department Threatens to Reimpose Sanctions on Venezuelan...
Diplomatic Process Between US and Venezuela Breaks Down
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 31, 2024 | News
The first steps of a path aimed at improving ties between the US and Venezuela have been abandoned. Washington has reimposed sanctions on Caracas and threatened more. Venezuelan officials say the country will block deportation flights from the US. Last October,...
News Roundup 1/15/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 15, 2024 | News Roundup
Ukraine The New York Times Says Ukraine Is Struggling to Hold Territory NYT The Institute US Says Aid to Ukraine “Ground to a Halt” CNBC American Citizen Jailed in Ukraine for His Political Views Dies AWC Korea North Korea Test Fires Missile NYT Israel White House...
Imperialists Will Always Double Down
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jan 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
While one could choose many appropriate representatives of the quotidian inanity of U.S. foreign policy—the deleterious consequences of which somehow never do anything to dent the authors’ respective career prospects—one could find many equal to but none better than...
News Roundup 12/29/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 29, 2023 | News Roundup
Venezuela Venezuela Responds to UK Warship Deployment to Guyana By Conducting War Games AP Ukraine Russia Says US Demands Prevent Hostage Swap El Pais US Announces $250 Million Arms Package for Ukraine AWC Ukraine Beginning to Lose Gains Made During Costly...
News Roundup 12/24/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 24, 2023 | News Roundup
Ukraine Biden Issues Executive Order Allowing Sanctions on Banks Doing Business with Russia WSJ Japan to Send Patriot Interceptors to the US, Freeing Up American Supplies to Send to Ukraine BBC Ukrainian Soldiers Facing Shortage of Artillery Shells WashPo Western...
What’s Happening in Myanmar?
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Dec 19, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In early November, Myanmar popped into the periphery of the corporate press, as a coalition of rebel ethnic paramilitary forces began overrunning military outposts and towns in the country’s north and west. With a series of coordinated rebel offenses continuing, two...
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Israel’s Amazing Feat
Israel has accomplished quite a feat: its crimes against the people of Gaza are of such a large scale that they make Hamas's Oct. 7 crimes look small.
Pentagon Follies: Accounting for DEI Expenditures
Inclusion, Equity and Diversity (IED) is communism in blackface. This viral contagion has raced to the top of government bureaucracies and, of course, facilitates a race to the bottom in quality and competence. The wizards at the Pentagon who have yet to account for...
A Soho Forum discussion of COVID with Tom Woods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKzl5CngE5Q Check out Tom's great book, Diary of a Psychosis.
US Abrams Tanks Withdrawn from Fighting in Ukraine
Five four million dollar tanks up in smoke. They'll make every excuse they wish but the days of manned tanks are over. Ukraine has lost five Abrams tanks in recent months, The New York Times reported this month, citing an unnamed senior US official. At least three...
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?