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
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
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
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
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
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
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’
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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