US lawmakers passed a raft of legislation containing some $95 billion in military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, also approving a bill that will allow Washington to hand Kiev assets seized from Russia and pave the way for a ban on TikTok.
by Will Porter | Apr 20, 2024 | News
US lawmakers passed a raft of legislation containing some $95 billion in military aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, also approving a bill that will allow Washington to hand Kiev assets seized from Russia and pave the way for a ban on TikTok.
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 19, 2024 | News Roundup
US News New Hampshire GOP Adds ‘Defend the Guard’ to Party Platform AWC US Government Rejects Australia’s Call To End Assange Case, Submits 'Assurances' For Extradition The Dissenter Speaker Johnson Unveils $95 Billion Foreign Military Aid Bills AWC New Amendment...
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 16, 2024 | News
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen will attempt to convince the international community to increase economic penalties on Iran as punishment for the drone and missile barrage Tehran launched at Israel. Iran’s attack followed Israel’s assassination of several...
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 15, 2024 | News
A top US official declared that Washington is using economic warfare to prevent Russia from completing a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) pipeline in the Arctic. Officials in Washington threatened the Nord Stream pipelines before explosions destroyed three of the four...
by Will Porter | Apr 4, 2024 | News
A deadly Israeli airstrike on a six-story apartment block early in the Gaza war likely constituted a war crime, rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) has reported.
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 4, 2024 | News
A top US official said that Russia has reconstituted nearly all of its military losses in Ukraine. A core objective for the White House’s $130 billion proxy war in Ukraine was to inflict “strategic defeat” on Russia and leave its forces crippled. Speaking at an event...
by Ted Snider | Apr 4, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Despite the damage done in Ukraine and NATO’s now apparent inability to support Ukraine’s defense against Russia strongly enough, one item in the western win column is the claim that NATO is more unified following the damage done by Donald Trump. Even aside from NATO...
by Will Porter | Mar 30, 2024 | News
The Empire never sleeps – but neither do we. Missed a story? We’ve got you covered. Check out this week in review at the Libertarian Institute.
Sirens don’t always sound before a war—sometimes the warning is a bland memo telling diplomats to pack. We open with the U.S. pullback of non‑emergency staff from Israel and track how similar moves in Lebanon and likely elsewhere signal more than routine caution. From...
A quiet leak says the loud part: some senior voices in Washington think the politics “work better” if Israel strikes Iran first. Not because it changes the threat. Because it changes the story Americans hear. We pull that thread and walk through the actual mechanics...
The special alliance of Israel and the United States have attacked Iran, again. How severe and protracted this war shall become, we do not know. The lapdogs of empire likely will support their masters, the usual coalition such as America’s Ghurkas, or Australia, what...
A journalist gets detained. Carriers surge toward the Gulf. Politicians talk in slogans while the facts stay fuzzy. We connect these threads to show how U.S. power, Israeli interests, and media narratives are steering Washington toward a dangerous collision with Iran...
A wall of U.S. air and naval power now sits within reach of Iran, but does massed hardware equal a winning strategy? We sit down with Colonel Douglas Macgregor to map the real shape of a campaign: suppressing integrated air defenses, cracking command-and-control, and...
No urinals on the USS Ford. This is a feature and not a bug. The main issue is breakdowns with the ship’s Vacuum Collection, Holding and Transfer (VCHT) system, which controls its toilets and sewage collection. The system is split across ten independent zones and...


