The Hill: A large majority of voters — 84 percent — are concerned about the prospect of Iran obtaining nuclear weapons, according to a Hill-HarrisX poll released on Monday. That's more than those who expressed concern over other foreign policy issues, including North...
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News Roundup 10/28/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 28, 2019 | News Roundup
US News Maria Butina has been released from a Florida prison and deported to Russia. [Link] In a speech, Pence voices support for the Hong Kong protesters. He also condemned China for being too interventionist. Pence targeted Nike and the NBA for being too supportive...
Economic Creationism
by Logan Chipkin | Oct 23, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Creationism has lost the argument in the public square. Any biologist working to understand life-related phenomena has no choice but to take seriously Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. That is, all of the apparent design and purposefulness that we...
Trump: US May Have to Go to War With Iran Soon
by Jason Ditz | Oct 22, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Speaking to reporters at the White House on Monday, President Trump bragged about his efforts to try to get the US “out of wars,” then warned that “we may have to get in wars, too. OK?“ Trump continued on talking about how ready the US is for a war with Iran, and how...
Sanctions, Deployments & Tanker Attacks: A Timeline of Recent US-Iran Hostilities
by Will Porter | Oct 16, 2019 | Blog
As US relations with Iran plumb new depths in the wake of Washington’s unilateral withdrawal from the JCPOA, it’s easy to lose track of the seemingly endless series of new sanctions, troop deployments and explosions in and around the Persian Gulf in recent months. In...
Don’t Be Sorry, Jane Fonda
by Kym Robinson | Oct 15, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The American war on South East Asia, or more commonly known as the Vietnam War was at its bloody peak when Jane Fonda went to Hanoi. Millions had died, and the promise of victory was ever elusive for the US government. The support for the war inside the United States...
News Roundup 10/15/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 15, 2019 | News Roundup
US News Dallas police shot and killed a woman who was playing video games inside of her home with her nephew. [Link] FBI data shows 30,500 children under the age of ten have been arrested over six years. [Link] Trump sparked outrage when he tweeted about a US Green...
The Conservative Attack on Market Freedom
by Ryan McMaken | Oct 14, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
I haven't run an empirical study on the number of articles published, but it sure seems like conservatives are writing more articles than usual condemning economic freedom, and the people who advocate for it. This would make some sense in the Age of Trump when the the...
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Labor as Commodity
For the individual actor, "as for everyone, other people’s labor as offered for sale on the market is nothing but a factor of production. Man deals with other people’s labor in the same way that he deals with all scarce material factors of production. He appraises it...
WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast Debuts Soon
I am debuting an occasional broadcast called WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast in the next week. It allows me to expand my inquiry into the martial phenomenon beyond the strictures of the niche irregular warfare rubric I labor under in Chasing Ghosts. I’ll dabble in...
Failing Upward: PR Stunt Backfires
The genius public relations mandarins at the Joint F35 program office apparently can't identify the aircraft they have wasted hundreds of billions of dollars on. The picture above appears to be the Chinese J35 facsimile of the F35. You can't make this up. The chaos...
Why We Need to End the Federal Reserve System
A new short documentary from the Mises Institute explains how the Federal Reserve system enslaves us all.
The Shame of Veterans Day
A photograph taken on the morning of March 8, 1906, on the eastern crest of Bud Dajo. (John R. White Papers, Knight Library, University of Oregon) “Happy Veterans Day and thank you for your service” or “thanks for protecting our freedom.” The events at Bud Dajo in the...
Some Things Never Change
"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.” --John Philpot Curran, Irish statesman, 1790
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