With a peace agreement between the US and the Taliban nearly completed, will President Trump be able to do what his two predecessors were unable to do – end the US military’s 18 year war on Afghanistan? Neocons at home are screaming that we must stay, Trump has...
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Left and Right: ‘No’ Prospects for Liberty
by Peter R. Quiñones | Aug 13, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones, Politics
Social Media is a sewer. Sure, it’s a medium that makes it easy to reach out to family, share photos and even documents; but places like Facebook, and especially Twitter, have become digital war zones in which the extremes on both sides of the political spectrum go to...
Capital Punishment’s Sockdolager
by John Dangelo III | Aug 13, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Asa’s story is the quintessential tale of rags to riches coupled with a class-defying love affair. A rural “savage” who’s left a wealthy estate by a distant family member, only to run up against envious schemers from polite society, Asa falls in love with a poor...
8/9/19 Pete Quinones on Gun Control, Health Care, and the War on Drugs
by Scott Horton | Aug 12, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Pete Quinones, formerly Mance Rayder, discusses some of his recent articles for the Libertarian Institute, covering gun control, Trump's election in 2016, and Bernie Sanders' proposed health care laws. After the shootings last week in El Paso and Dayton, many...
News Roundup 8/12/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 12, 2019 | News Roundup
US News The US tells Germany that it must increase defense spending to 2% of GDP - the NATO target - or risk the US moving troops deployed in Germany to Poland. [Link] Defense Secretary Esper visits Mongolia on a mission to build ties. [Link] Korean Peace The ongoing...
8/9/19 Eric Margolis on the Dangers of Nuclear War Between India and Pakistan
by Scott Horton | Aug 11, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Eric Margolis about the recent legal change that will now allow non-Kashmiris to buy land in Kashmir. Kashmir is majority Muslim, and has been the subject of territorial disputes between India and Pakistan for years. The fear is that the legal change...
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...
8/9/19 Hunter DeRensis on the Dangerous Foreign Policy of ‘National Conservatism’
by Scott Horton | Aug 10, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Hunter DeRensis about the National Conservatism Conference, part of a movement that DeRensis describes as trying to come up with intellectual rationalizations for Trumpism after the fact. Crucially, this new national conservatism movement did not...
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I Did Not Come To Lead Lambs, I Came To Awaken Lions
Not speaking clearly may be the first problem of politics. It is much like the old axiom, often misattributed to Burke, that for evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing. In much of the world, conservatism has been living in fear since the last...
Why Do Climate Alarmists Dislike Climate Realist-Optimists So Much?
F. A. Hayek, the Nobel-Prize-winning economist of the Austrian tradition, provided a possible answer to the question posed in the title. Although Hayek (1899-1992) to my knowledge had nothing to say about the climate controversy, his views on macroeconomics met with a...
Resistance Is Futile: How The War On Terror Supercharged State Power
“What,” I sometimes ask students in a class I teach on the history of terrorism, “was the name of the Islamic State’s branch in Europe?” It is a trick question: the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) never set up a full-fledged European branch. The group’s...
The Antiwar Comic: The War Against Protest
Shh. Don't tell Facebook, YouTube or Twitter about this comic. Be a shame to retweet. More comics at the Webomic Factory.
For Every Action There Is An Equal And Opposite Reaction
I never speak it out loud, but recently I’m constantly repeating a movie our daughter used to watch when she was little. Over the Hedge I believe it was called. I constantly hear the little squirrel straining to see the end of the newly constructed impediment, in his...
Five Myths About Drone Warfare
Myth 1. It's "precision bombing" Myth 2. Drone warfare is ethical Myth 3. If the war is legal so is the weapon Myth 4. Drones are a triumph of technology Myth 5. Drones are effective Aerial bombardment has not created peaceful states, nor defeated IS, nor stopped the...
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