The European Union is developing proposals on what to do with assets seized from the Russian central bank by member states. According to European officials, the bloc may invest the money and hand the returns to Ukraine.
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Pentagon Seeks to Scrap Problematic Littoral Combat Ships in 2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 28, 2022 | News Roundup
The Pentagon's 2023 budget proposal calls for retiring 24 ships to make way for more expensive vessels. All nine of the Navy's Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) would be among those scrapped. The LCS program has been plagued with issues. The most serious are...
COI #166: The Architects of the Afghan War Failed Upwards
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 23, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #166, Scott Spaulding – host of Why I'm Antiwar – returns to the show for the third installment of the 'Villains of the Afghan War' series. Scott breaks down the role of David Kilcullen, the godfather of counterinsurgency under the Bush administration....
COI #80 – Foiled “Militia Plot” Fuels DC Security Theater
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 8, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #80, Kyle and Will cover liberal war hawk Neera Tanden's failed bid to lead the Office of Management and Budget. While she faced opposition on both sides of the aisle, senators largely pointed to her aggressive Twitter posts, passing over her more egregious...
Don’t Bailout The Share Buyback Queens
by Steven Woskow | Mar 17, 2020 | Blog
From Wolf Richter at Wolf Street. The Trump administration is considering a $850-billion stimulus package (bailout) for corporate America. This includes a bailout for the airline industry - the same airline industry that spent the past few years spending cash and...
Christopher Tapp Suing Idaho Falls Police Over Wrongful Murder Conviction
by Scott Horton | Dec 28, 2019 | Blog
The cops, DAs and judges from Idaho Falls ought to all be caged like the criminals they are for the next 20 years to pay for what they did to this innocent man. Instead the same people responsible will be their own judges, will hand themselves immunity and then if...
WATCH: NYPD Attacks Innocent Mom, Rips Baby from Her Arms, Taxpayers Shell Out $625k
by Matt Agorist | Dec 17, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
New York, NY — Jazmine Headley and her one-year-old son waited in a Brooklyn public assistance office last year for two hours in an attempt to receive some aid. That aid would never come, however, as an appalling video shows, police would show up, rip Headley’s baby...
The Police Are The Most Dangerous Criminals in Society
by Scott Horton | Nov 30, 2019 | Blog
All you gotta do is read the Free Thought Project: Autistic Boy Heartbroken After Cops Raid Wrong Home, Kill His Boxer Service Dog High-Ranking Officer Arrested on Over 600 Counts of Child Sexual Abuse Taxpayers to Be Held Liable After Cop Shows Up to Mass Shooting,...
Cops Dump 10 Rounds Into 82yo Partially Deaf Man Because ‘He Couldn’t Hear Them’
by Matt Agorist | Nov 21, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
Gary, IN — An 82-year-old “granddaddy” is currently fighting for his life after police opened fire on him Sunday night. According to the family, the elderly victim is partially deaf and couldn’t hear the police commands, so they filled him full of holes. According to...
Innocent Man Rots In Jail For Two Years on False Charges
by Scott Horton | Aug 28, 2019 | Blog
Easily disprovable false charges, as they eventually were. It goes without saying, but should be said that not one person involved in this travesty will ever be held accountable for their crimes in any way. Not the bearer of false witness, not the cops, not the DAs,...
Proof That “the Rich” Aren’t Going to Fund the Tidal Wave of New Spending
by John Phelan | Mar 2, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
So, $47 billion on free college tuition; $1 trillion for new infrastructure; $1.4 trillion to write off student loan debt; at least $7 trillion on a Green New Deal; $32 trillion on “Medicare for All.” By one estimate, these new spending proposals total an estimated...
The Immigration Issue in Libertarianism
by Per Bylund | Sep 18, 2018 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Over a decade ago, I wrote an article published at Mises.org on the libertarian immigration conundrum. The “conundrum” was the seemingly unbridgeable differences between, if not contradictory views of, the two libertarian answers to the immigration question. The point...
Torturing the Truth: The Tax Cut Debate vs. the English Language
by Thomas L. Knapp | Apr 28, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
On April 26, the Trump administration released a one-page summary of its tax reform proposals. The following morning, US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin appeared on CBS This Morning to discuss those proposals. Co-anchor Norah O’Donnell didn’t waste any time...
Debt Ceiling Déjà Vu
by Jacob Hornberger | Feb 27, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
Two days ago, President Trump sent out a tweet crowing that the national debt went down by $12 billion in the first month of his administration, as compared to the first month of the Obama regime, when it went up by $200 billion. If Trump really believes that he is...
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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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