45 years after War Powers Act, a first successful challenge In a vote on Thursday, the Senate passed S.J. Resolution 54, in a vote of 56-41. The resolution is a War Powers Act challenge to the unauthorized US involvement in the War in Yemen, and would require the US...
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News Roundup 12/13/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 13, 2018 | News Roundup
Trump signs an executive order creating ‘opportunity zones.’ The zones will have large real estate development tax breaks. Trump’s family stands to benefit from the tax breaks. [Link] Russia will remove nuclear-capable bombers from Venezuela on Friday. [Link] British...
12/11/18 Jonathan Hafetz on Habeas Corpus and Detaining Americans Without Charges
by Scott Horton | Dec 12, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Jonathan Hafetz of the ACLU joins the show to talk about one of their clients, an American citizen detained in Iraq for over a year without charges because of allegations of his being an enemy combatant. Thanks to the efforts of Hafetz and his organization, this man...
12/11/18 Peter Van Buren on the Mueller Investigation
by Scott Horton | Dec 12, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Peter Van Buren comes on the show to talk about his latest article on the Mueller investigation, which he believes is more conspiracy theory than truth. He points out that there's still no evidence of blackmail based on personal matters, and that none of the supposed...
12/10/18 Karen Kwiatkowski on Exposing the War State
by Scott Horton | Dec 12, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Karen Kwiatkowski was one of the whistleblowers on the malfeasance of intelligence agencies leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, recently documented in Rob Reiner's film, Shock and Awe. Kwiatkowski explains that the American people are usually inclined toward an...
12/7/18 Sheldon Richman on Pearl Harbor and Avoiding War with Russia
by Scott Horton | Dec 12, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman comes back on the show to talk about his recent article on Ukraine, and another recent Libertarian Institute article on Pearl Harbor. He outlines some of the history of FDR's involvement in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, explaining how much...
12/7/18 Trita Parsi on Iranian Sanctions
by Scott Horton | Dec 11, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Trita Parsi talks about President Trump's efforts to use sanctions to pressure the Iranian people into overthrowing their government. Parsi and Scott believes this strategy is futile, likening it to the possibility of Americans overthrowing our entire system of...
Trump’s Sanctions Meet His Trade War
by Jacob Hornberger | Dec 10, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
President Trump’s sanctions against Iran have just intersected with his trade war against China. The intersection comes in the form of the arrest of Meng Wanzhou, an executive with Huawei Technologies, one of the most prominent companies in China. Meng was arrested by...
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Cop Kills Man
Look at this shit. Cop is out looking for someone. Sees some other random black guy. Shoots him to death. Now claims this completely innocent man, who just went to get sandwiches for his family, threatened to murder a cop for no reason. That is a lie. The cop is the...
Vijay Boyapati: The Bullish Case For Bitcoin
I recently transferred my crypto to a Ledger wallet, it felt great to have complete control of my assets. No bank, no government and no third party intermediary. With the price of a bitcoin surging to new highs in 2017, the bullish case for investors might seem so...
The Worlds Largest Arms-Producing Companies
No surprise. I don't expect this to change under Biden (or any president). While he didn't make the worse pick for Secretary Of Defense, he did pick an ex-military four star general that took the all to common career path. Military - head of Centcom - retire - work...
Loser Michele Flournoy
She always loses. Like that time she tripled and lost the war in Afghanistan. She could have been Obama's secretary of defense. The first woman(!) and everything. But no, she decided to wait so she could be appointed by Hillary Clinton and be a part of the big women...
Grading Candidates For Biden’s Foreign Policy Team
Robert Wright and Connor Echels at nonzero.org "Background: Flournoy, a candidate for secretary of defense, was an undersecretary of defense in the Obama administration, where she played a big role in designing the Afghanistan “surge.” She is perhaps best known for...
Constitution Revisited on Decentralized Revolution
Aaron Keith Harris and I discussed America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Revisited on the LP Mises Caucus podcast, Decentralized Revolution. Listen here.
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