2023 was another godsend for cynics. Here’s a round-up of my zestiest lines from my articles in the past year. Some lines were tweaked for this collection. Hearty thanks to Hunter DeRensis and editors at other outlets who ran those articles up the flagpole. "Telling...
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They Always Kill Children
by Kym Robinson | Dec 20, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“Why is the World Silent?” - Chaim Kaplan Humanity has endured self-inflicted savagery for all its history. Modern civilizations have apparently transcended above the primal savagery of ancient barbarity, yet despite technology allowing us to peer in with a voyeur's...

Visiting the Ghosts of Waco
by Jim Bovard | Nov 13, 2023 | Featured Articles
After decades of writing about the greatest atrocity of 1993, I finally visited Waco last week. I was traveling with a friend who was hepped up on seeing Waco’s most popular tourist site—Magnolia, a massive shopping complex spawned by an HGTV program on home...
Collective Guilt is An Excuse for Mass Murder
by Kevin McKenzie | Nov 6, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
Let’s do a thought-experiment. We’ll start with a choose-your-own-adventure. Pick a mass-shooting event from recent U.S. history, but try to pick one where the shooter matches your personal demographics as closely as possible. As a white, male American of a similar...
Amid War on Gaza, Scores of Palestinians Killed By Israeli Forces, Settlers in the West Bank
by Connor Freeman | Oct 20, 2023 | News
Amid Tel Aviv’s massive bombing campaign against the densely populated, besieged Gaza Strip, Israeli forces and illegal settlers have been on a rampage of violence, terror, torture, and murder throughout the occupied West Bank. On October 7, Hamas carried out a...
Watching Us vs. Them Through a Digital Keyhole
by Kym Robinson | Oct 10, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“Soldier and civilian, they died in their tens of thousands because death had been concocted for them, morality hitched like a halter round the warhorse so that we could talk about 'target-rich environments' and 'collateral damage'—that most infantile of attempts to...
US, Bahrain Sign Security Agreement and Invite Other Nations to Join
by Connor Freeman | Sep 13, 2023 | News
Washington and Manama signed a strategic security and economic agreement, which furthers plans to build a US-backed military alliance eyeing Iran in the region, on Wednesday. Concurrently, protests against human rights abuses inside Bahrain are ongoing and the White...
8/31/23 Andy Worthington: Some Good News from Guantanamo Bay
by Scott Horton | Sep 2, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Andy Worthington is back to discuss what’s happening down at Guantanamo Bay. This time there is a positive development. A judge has ruled that statements gathered from the so-called “Clean Team” interrogations of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri cannot be...
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Culture War w/Adam Nutter
Anytime I want to discuss cultural issues professional comedian Adam Nutter is my man. We discuss Big Balls beatdown, Sydney Sweeney, and Epstein subpoenas.
The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Michael Vlahos – America’s Military Is in Big Trouble
Michael Vlahos joins Kyle Anzalone to discusses the state of the US military and Ukrainian casualties during the war.
Anti-War Blog – Little Boy
He walked nearly twelve kilometres, barefoot, hungry. Most children like him, if they are lucky eat a single meal every second or third day. When he arrived to where the wheat was being distributed, he smiled. He was happy. Grateful. He kissed the hand of the American...
Russiagate and Gaza w/Scott Horton
Scott holds court on Russiagate and Gaza.
Another Notch in the Spine
The following is the first draft of a short story for a collection I am working on. I hope you enjoy it. Cheers! --Patrick On the morning of my first kill, I woke up before Mom had come to get me. I gazed up at the concrete ceiling, where the night before, Dad helped...
Never Let Me Go
Recently Patrick Macfarlane, my fellow, fellow at this dear Institute discussed on his Vital Dissent podcast the Kazuo Ishiguro novel, Never Let Me Go. In his books Ishiguro frequently covers memories, relationships and the human condition. Never Let Me Go, is a...
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