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News Roundup 12/29/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 29, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Biden says he will implement a ban on unvaccinated Americans from accessing domestic air travel if medical experts approve the plan. [Link] The LAPD releases the footage of the killing of 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta. Orellana-Peralta was killed when...
News Roundup 12/28/2021
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 28, 2021 | News Roundup
Covid The CDC says people who test positive for covid but do not have symptoms only need to quarantine for five days. The CDC then recommends five days of mask-wearing. The World Bank says nearly 100 million people fell into poverty during the covid pandemic. [Link]...
Is Virtue Signaling Vicious?
by Laurie Calhoun | Dec 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
Virtue signaling—the practice of highlighting what one takes to be one’s own moral superiority, often by loudly denouncing the character and comportment, including the speech, of other people—has become a dominant mode of rhetoric throughout social media and network...
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...
News Roundup 12/23/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 23, 2021 | News Roundup
US News US airstrikes have dropped about 54% since Biden took office. [Link] Military families in Hawaii believe they have been exposed to contaminated water for months longer than the Navy currently admits. [Link] The US sanctions three people in Brazil for...
Supply Chain Chaos w/Huntsman
by Tommy Salmons | Apr 26, 2021 | Year Zero
The Huntsman joined Tommy to discuss the supply chain, shortages, and logistics in order to better inform the public as to why they are experiencing more scarcity and higher prices. Donate The Huntsman on Twitter
Federal Court Strikes Down California’s Ban on High-Capacity Magazines
by Scott Horton | Aug 15, 2020 | Blog
Well what do you know?
Iran: Deaths in custody. Sexual violence. Hunger strikes.
by Scott Horton | Dec 22, 2019 | Blog
Nah. U.S.A. Today: What we uncovered inside ICE facilities across the US
Trump Increases Strikes Against Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Oct 4, 2019 | Blog
The war he wanted out of the most. At least they're talking again.
USA Claims Syria Using Chlorine Gas
by Scott Horton | May 22, 2019 | Blog
And already attempting to build it up into a pretext for more strikes. Funny, since the most credible claims of Syrian use of poison gas were just finally completely debunked last week. How dare Assad attempt to finish the war against Obama and Brennan's al Qaeda...
Trump Drone Strikes AQ Targets in Lybia
by Scott Horton | Mar 25, 2018 | Blog
Says the NYT.
3/13/17 Samuel Oakford on keeping count of the civilian casualties from international airstrikes in Iraq and Syria
by Scott Horton | Mar 13, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Samuel Oakford, an investigative journalist and contributor to Airwars.org, discusses the grossly underreported official number of civilians killed by coalition and Russian airstrikes in Iraq and Syria in the ongoing fight against ISIS; and why the Airwars estimates...
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Military Conscription is Slavery: Woodrow Wilson Edition
By the guidelines set down by the Selective Service Act, all males aged 21 to 30 were required to register to potentially be selected for military service. At the request of the War Department, Congress amended the law in August 1918 to expand the age range to include...
The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
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...
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