The New York Times has published a letter from former war crime prosecutor Benjamin Ferencz. Ferencz was a prosecutor at the Nuremberg war trials. His website is here. From his Bio. The U.S. had decided to prosecute a broad cross section of Nazi criminals once the...
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What Percentage Of Your Life Has The US Been At War?
by Steven Woskow | Jan 9, 2020 | Blog
Philip Bump at The Washington Post Nearly a quarter of Americans have never experienced the U.S. in a time of peace
bitcoin is Dead: Part 4
by Phil Gibson | Jan 8, 2020 | Blog, Economics, Libertarianism
Click here for Part 3 For the audio version, check out my podcast A Boy Named Pseu where you can download it on all podcast platforms. (read starts at 8:54) Read full piece here. If bitcoin is dead, then Nigerians aren’t living off it Bitcoin is empowering the...
Was Kataib Hezbollah Even Responsible For That Rocket Attack?
by Scott Horton | Jan 7, 2020 | Blog
They denied it. Scott Ritter wonders whether what's-left-of-ISIS is jerking our chain: The U.S. blamed Iranian-backed Khaitab Hezbollah (no relation to the Lebanese Hezbollah group), for the attacks. There are several problems with this narrative, first and foremost...
Did Iran Kill 600 Americans in Iraq War II? No.
by Scott Horton | Jan 5, 2020 | Blog
Due to the current ubiquity of claims that Iran killed 600 Americans in Iraq War II, I figured it might be worth bringing up the fact that that is a complete and damnable lie. In the case of Petraeus’s surge against Sadrist forces in Sadr City and Najaf in 2007 and...
Russia and China Have Their Own Problems
by Scott Horton | Dec 18, 2019 | Blog
The U.S. has no reason to fear their alliance. In fact only U.S. threats incentivize them to grow closer in their relations. #swissforeignpolicynow
Only American to lead FBI and CIA says Trump presents ‘dire threat’ to country
by Scott Horton | Dec 16, 2019 | Blog
Of course he does. He's a president of the U.S. government after all. But man, either the National Security State has the dumbest PR department in history or Trump has the most brilliant one. But he probably couldn't really afford to pay them what it would cost for...
12/6/19 Tom Collina: America’s Dangerous “Nuclear Sponge”
by Scott Horton | Dec 8, 2019 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show
Tom Collina tells Scott about the "nuclear sponge", a collection of land-based nuclear weapons in America's upper midwest, whose real purpose is just to absorb the strikes of a nuclear attack by a hostile power rather than to actually be used in an attack of their...
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Contours of The Global Imperial Architecture
Antiwar.com recently published an article jointly written by Institute Director Scott Horton and this author (Weeks). The piece, “Strategic Treason: The Empire Fetes Man Who Killed US Troops,” discussed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s trip to New York City, which...
The Most Important Chapter of Hayek’s Most Important Book
Economist Friedrich Hayek's most popular book, The Road to Serfdom, contains a particularly important chapter titled "The End of Truth." That chapter, with a new foreward by economist Daniel D. Klein of George Mason University, is now available to read with updated...
Standards!
Secretary of War Hegseth recently brought the perfumed princes to the Pentagram to give a short speech on standards. I am glad for the name change since the DoD has never troubled themselves with defending the nation. Someone: "How come there aren't any fat Marines?"...
Short Story – Context
He clenched his fist around the USB, impatience gripping him as he waited. He had just finished pacing only to sit down, unaware of his rocking back and forth. Once he saw her, he was back to his feet. He wanted to push it into her hand and disappear. Instead, she...
The Impasse
Liberty is only acceptable for a virtuous people.
The Great Enrichment Is Real
From about 1800 to the present the world's economy did something good, which looks to be permanent and looks to be justified. If contrary to the evidence we cling to our prejudices about economic history—our view that the Industrial Revolution was improverishng, or...
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