This article was originally published at the Institute last year on Memorial Day and is reprinted below. On Memorial Day, the media do their usual sacralizing of war. Instead, it should be a day for the ritualized scourging of politicians. During the last 70 years,...
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News Roundup 5/27/21
by Kyle Anzalone | May 27, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Only 22% of high school seniors tested proficient in science. [Link] The Pentagon is refusing to disclose troop numbers in Iraq, Syria, and Afghanistan. [Link] Great Power Ukraine says it is upset that NATO states have not taken action to make Ukraine an...
News Roundup 5/19/21
by Kyle Anzalone | May 19, 2021 | News Roundup
US News A city in California has dropped charges and paid a settlement to two journalists. The city gave the journalists access to documents, then claimed the journalists hacked the government. [Link] Senator Tim Kaine says he is hopeful for a repeal of the 1991 and...
News Roundup 5/18/21
by Kyle Anzalone | May 18, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Biden is considering keeping a Trump-era Pentagon rule that allows the Department of Defense to carry out psyops with less oversight from the State Department. [Link] Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Russia is advancing illegal claims in the Arctic....
5/13/21 Jim Bovard on the Dangerous Consequences of America’s Secret Police State
by Scott Horton | May 15, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Jim Bovard discusses the way the American surveillance state has slowly dismantled the fourth amendment, especially thanks to the FISA courts and the way they've enabled legal loopholes for spying on nearly any American citizen. Bovard cites interventions by the NSA...
Moral Rhetoric vs. Reality
by Laurie Calhoun | May 13, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Philosophers tend to divide normative theories of morality into two broad categories: deontological and teleological. Deontological theories prioritize right action over good outcomes. If an action is wrong, then it is intrinsically wrong, regardless of the...
Correcting the Lapdog Media
by Jim Bovard | May 13, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Former CNN White House correspondent Michelle Kosinski declared on Twitter last week that American journalists would “never expect…Your own govt to lie to you, repeatedly” and “Your own govt to hide information the public has a right to know.” Kosinski denounced...
COI#108 – Biden Feeds the War Machine guest Dave DeCamp
by Kyle Anzalone | May 12, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
Dave DeCamp, News Editor at Antiwar.com, returns to Conflicts of Interest to discuss Biden’s foreign policy through his first 100 days in office. As a candidate, Biden pledged to end the forever wars and scale back tensions with Iran. While he has reduced some US...
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Frigate Failure Follies
I am currently doing a podcast series on what appears to be a droll subject but it is critical to getting big projects right. If you can't articulate and create a rational and effective Concept of Operations, you will fail. Th Navy never disappoints in failure lately....
History and Peace
"[E]very person must take his life and every nation must take its history as it comes; nothing is more useless than complaining over errors that can no longer be rectified, nothing more vain than regret. Neither as judges allotting praise and blame nor as avengers...
History and Conflict
"We cannot eradicate the past from our memories. But it is not the task of history to kindle new conflicts by reviving hatreds long since dead and by searching the archives for pretexts for new conflicts. We do not have to revenge crimes committed centuries ago by...
Around Us the World dies in hate (poem thing) -Anti-War Blog
In the time that the smoke ate the sun, Poison that blinded my eyes washed by tears, Tears that fall from fear because we shall never have years, Maybe days or if so lucky weeks. The sirens yawn more than we can sleep, The birds have left though the sky is...
Four Star Admiral Slams Body Parts in the Cash Register
ADM Robert Burke arrested for corruption. This is on the heels of the Fat Leonard scandal. This is the tip of the iceberg in corruption. And remember this four star admiral retired with an estimated annual pension of approx 200k. 200,000 dollars a year. "Instead, the...
Wayback Snapshot: Japanese Invasion on American Soil
Yes, American soil has been invaded and occupied in the twentieth century. "In June 1942, the United States launched its first offensive in the Pacific, the Aleutian Campaign. From June 1942 to May 1943 Japan held the Island of Attu. The Battle of Attu took place May...
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