Jimmy Aldaoud was laid to rest in his home state - Michigan. He was deported to Iraq under the Trump administrations deportation policy even though he had never been to Iraq, did not speak the language, was mentally ill and dependent on insulin. Aldaoud was born in a...
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Wall Street Journal: Rich Get Richer
by Scott Horton | Aug 31, 2019 | Blog
Due to government economic policy: The decadelong economic expansion has showered the U.S. with staggering new wealth driven by a booming stock market and rising house prices. But that windfall has passed by many Americans. The bottom half of all U.S. households, as...
I Think I Just Saved Democracy. You’re Welcome.
by Arlo Pignotti | Aug 25, 2019 | Blog
My latest hairbrained scheme that just might work. The U.S. Capital used to be in New York City, but became so infested with lobbyists it had to move to Philadelphia, and then again to what is now Washington, D.C. One look at D.C. and obviously we need another move....
Beyond One-Liners: A Guide to the Democratic Debate on Criminal Justice
by The Marshall Project | Aug 18, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Wednesday night’s debate saw the first extended discussion of criminal justice issues as the Democratic presidential candidates jockey in a crowded and competitive field. Several candidates teed off those issues to score political points and jab at opponents. While...
The Return of Doomsday
by Scott Horton | Aug 12, 2019 | Blog
Former Energy Secretary Ernest J. Moniz and former Senator Sam Nunn have a new article in Foreign Affairs about the nuclear weapons crisis between the United States and Russia. We can't run it as a viewpoint since the authors accept false conventional narratives about...
It Is All About the Benjamins
by Scott Horton | Aug 11, 2019 | Blog
Wealthy Jewish donors meet to decide how to spend their money influencing American politics to help Israel. In this case, they've decided to go after Rep. Rashida Tlaib for supporting BDS. Ron Kampeus writes: At the Jewish federation round table, there was a...
Sheldon Richman From 1991 ‘Ancient History’: US Conduct in the Middle East Since World War II and the Folly of Intervention
by Scott Horton | Jul 22, 2019 | Blog
Check out this magnificent thing that Sheldon Richman wrote back in August 1991 about "Uncle Sam" ruining everything in the Middle East since back when the U.S. took over for the British.
Who Owns The US Government? Hint, Not The American People
by Steven Woskow | Jul 10, 2019 | Blog
President Trump doubled as chief dealmaker on Tuesday. “We're going to be signing a document today, very large transaction,” said Trump. “It’s a transaction that will be purchasing a lot of Boeing jets, that means a lot of jobs,” he added without elaborating....
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The Slobbering Beast of Power
Beneath the uniforms, costumes of power or the suits of fashionable exuberance lurks naked flesh. Often flabby and unimpressive. The victims of such know the putrid stench on their breath, the sickly odour of sweat, the repulsive effluent of discharge as it penetrates...
Stop Funding the NGO: No Grift Overlooked
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are non-profit, voluntary, and independent citizen groups operating at local, national, or international levels. The very nature of NGOs needs a complete overhaul. The very term NGO has an undeserved cache of innocence and...
Recent Writing in Defense of Free Immigration
"The Trumpian Ice Age: The Frigidity of Collectivism" "Immigration Policy in an Nth-Best World" "Free Movement Increases Wealth" "Static Analysis Clouds Immigration Debate" "More on Immigration and Public Property" "Immigration Control Threatens the Rule of Law"...
Alex Wins Again
I was a technical climber as a young man and just watched the amazing Alex Honnold free solo the Taipei 101 tower in Taiwan. Individual achievement is the bedrock of pushing the envelope in human creativity and innovation. I think free solo is eventually going to kill...
Report Card
What's the problem? So far the Trump administration has been Pretti Good.
The Kyle Anzalone Show: ICE Using AI to ID Targets, Breaking Down Trump’s WEF Speech
Greenland on the table, NATO on edge, and an algorithm deciding who gets a knock at the door. We dive into President Trump’s Davos remarks claiming the U.S. will pursue Greenland, then trace the fallout across European capitals as Denmark draws a hard line on...
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