Recently, The Wall Street Journal joined the flood of American mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, Politico and several others, in preparing the American public for a Russian victory. After nearly two years, over $113 billion of U.S. taxpayers’...
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American Soldiers Are Being Put in Danger for Israel
by Brad Pearce | Jan 3, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since the October 7 attacks restarted conflict between Israel and Hamas, U.S. troops have been under fire all over the Middle East. Thus far, most attacks have been deflected with minimal damage, but it is only a matter of time before one gets through and causes a...
Ukrainians Turn Against War But Are Afraid to Speak Out
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 2, 2024 | News
As the war in Ukraine nears the end of its second year, Ukrainians are turning against fighting and towards diplomacy. One former official said that Ukrainian soldiers are currently fighting and dying for nothing. The Times reports, “Many Ukrainians are growing tired...
Wilson’s Folly, the Washington Hegemon and Why There Is Still No Peace on Earth
by David Stockman | Jan 2, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Another Christmas and there is still no peace on earth. And the proximate cause of that vexing reality is the $1.3 trillion warfare state planted on the banks of the Potomac—along with its web of war-making capabilities, bases, alliances and vassals stretching to the...
12/28/23 Robert A. Pape on Israel’s Major Strategic Mistake
by Scott Horton | Dec 30, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott is joined by Robert A. Pape to discuss the dangerously flawed assumptions behind Israel’s strategy in Gaza and with the Palestinians more broadly. Scott and Pape talk about how these same mistakes have been made numerous times in recent...
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...
12/21/23 Jeremy Hammond: Yes, What’s Happening in Gaza Is a Genocide
by Scott Horton | Dec 25, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott is joined by Jeremy Hammond to talk about the war in Gaza. They discuss Israel’s strategy of making Gaza uninhabitable and look at the relevant history that has led to this moment. They also discuss the proper language to use when talking...
12/21/23 Angela McArdle on How the Libertarian Party is Opposing the War State
by Scott Horton | Dec 25, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Libertarian Party Chair Angela McArdle returns to the show to talk about the upcoming antiwar rally and the broader antiwar strategy of the Party. She shares the plans in the works for a second Rage Against the War Machine rally in Washington DC...
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The Purpose of the Antisemitism Awareness Act
The point of the House-passed (and misnamed) Antisemitism Awareness Act is not to empower the Education Department to sue and defund colleges under civil rights law. It is to make lawsuits unnecessary by chilling expression.
The Prussian Culture of Disobedience
"The German and Prussian officer corps are the officer corps with the greatest culture of disobedience–with maybe the exception of the French. The stories and events that kept alive the virtue requiring an officer–even in war–to disobey an order “when justified by...
Zionism versus Judaism
From the start, political Zionists identified their program with Judaism the religion (despite their secularism, even atheism). Also from the start, Jews -- including the most tradition-bound Jews -- vigorously disavowed that identification. They were shamed as...
Sen. Mitt Romney Admits TikTok Censorship is All About Protecting Israel
Of course it is. No one hates free speech more than Zionists. You know, because accurate descriptions of Israel make them look bad.
The F35 Continues NOT to Stick the Landing
“I’m getting tired of over-promising and under-delivering,” F-35 program head Air Force Lt. Gen. Mike Schmidt said. The newly-envisioned Block 4 would instead focus on delivering “‘must-have’ content,” Schmidt wrote, which will include an undefined “subset” of 88...
At First I Hated Rian Johnson
For making the very worst Star Wars movie, Episode 8, and ruining Luke Skywalker. But now I realize that he was just making a film about how disappointing it was to meet Mark Hamill.