US News St. Louis public defenders release an app to combat an abusive bail system. [Link] Customs and Border Patrol plan to ramp up facial recognition and biometric scanning to all people entering the country. [Link] ICE agents regularly make mistakes on immigration...
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Ron and Dan: Can Trump Get Out of Afghanistan?
by Scott Horton | Aug 13, 2019 | Blog
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...
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...
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Biden Leads State of the Union with Anti-Russia Tirade
President Joe Biden opened his State of the Union address with an all-out attack on his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, framing the conflict in Ukraine as a battle between “light” and “darkness.” He pledged to “save democracy” and closed his remarks with an...
Hillary Clinton Wants to Turn Ukraine into Afghanistan
Former Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called to arm up an insurgency to repel Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, joining a growing number of pundits and officials suggesting that Washington should hand Russia its own costly,...
State Officials Pass Anti-Russian Measures to Virtue Signal Support for Ukraine
As supporters of Ukraine make loud displays of solidarity amid Russia’s invasion – including boycotts on Russian vodka – state governments in the US are virtue signaling their own support with proposals for bans and prohibitions on the country’s exports. A bill...
North Korea Conducts Missile Test After Declaring ‘New Situation’ With China
North Korea has conducted a ballistic missile test which it said would help launch new reconnaissance satellites into orbit. Japanese and South Korea officials announced the launch early Sunday, saying the munition traveled 190 miles before landing in the Sea of...
Facebook, Twitter Greenlight Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Posts
The Azov Battalion is an essential element of the Ukrainian National Guard that America has supported with numerous weapon shipments. It is also a neo-Nazi militia that has been fighting separatist forces in Ukraine's eastern Donbass region since 2014. Once on...
Don’t Let the US Foreign Policy Elite Off the Hook
It would be unwise in the extreme to let our horror at Putin's invasion of Ukraine to permit us to forget the many ways in which the U.S. foreign policy establishment for over 20 years set the stage for what's happing now.
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