Gareth the Great in the American Conservative: The fingerprints of Pompeo are all over this provocation to war. In a striking parallel to the deception that accompanied the Gulf of Tonkin crisis in 1964—in which the American public was told about an attack on a U.S....
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Iranian Plane Crash
by Scott Horton | Jan 8, 2020 | Blog
As Tom Woods pointed out in this great speech 10 years ago, when there’s an earthquake, hurricane, plane crash or other major disaster in Iran, we all feel terrible and grieve for the loss of life and donate to charity over it and the rest. But then we’re supposed to...
Was Kataib Hezbollah Even Responsible For That Rocket Attack?
by Scott Horton | Jan 7, 2020 | Blog
They denied it. Scott Ritter wonders whether what's-left-of-ISIS is jerking our chain: The U.S. blamed Iranian-backed Khaitab Hezbollah (no relation to the Lebanese Hezbollah group), for the attacks. There are several problems with this narrative, first and foremost...
War Powers Resolutions Don’t Matter
by Zack Sorenson | Jan 7, 2020 | Blog
Marbury v. Madison took the written U.S. Constitution and superseded it with a British style system of an unwritten constitutionality. This was judicial review and it lasted until the New Deal when the jurisprudence of limited government figured out that the...
Did Iran Kill 600 Americans in Iraq War II? No.
by Scott Horton | Jan 5, 2020 | Blog
Due to the current ubiquity of claims that Iran killed 600 Americans in Iraq War II, I figured it might be worth bringing up the fact that that is a complete and damnable lie. In the case of Petraeus’s surge against Sadrist forces in Sadr City and Najaf in 2007 and...
Iran: Deaths in custody. Sexual violence. Hunger strikes.
by Scott Horton | Dec 22, 2019 | Blog
Nah. U.S.A. Today: What we uncovered inside ICE facilities across the US
China Commissions 2nd Aircraft Carrier, Challenging U.S. Dominance
by Scott Horton | Dec 18, 2019 | Blog
Claims the New York Times. But America has 10 aircraft carrier battle groups and hundreds of naval aircraft.
Russia and China Have Their Own Problems
by Scott Horton | Dec 18, 2019 | Blog
The U.S. has no reason to fear their alliance. In fact only U.S. threats incentivize them to grow closer in their relations. #swissforeignpolicynow
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The Welfare-State Paradox
"Whether ... a system of social security is a good or a bad policy is essentially a political problem. One may try to justify it by declaring that the wage earners lack the insight and the moral strength to provide spontaneously for their own future. But then it is...
The Ford Follies: Yes, It Can Get Worse
Brent Eastwood does a splendid job elucidating so many of the problems of the fatally flawed Ford super-carrier. I suspect he had to say "promising" but there is nothing here for the 21st century; this is the chariot and crossbow of the next generation. This is the...
The Steady Rise in Living Standards
"The history of capitalism as it has operated in the last two hundred years in the realm of Western civilization is the record of a steady rise in the wage earners’ standard of living. The inherent mark of capitalism is that it is mass production for mass consumption...
Pentagon Acquisition: Rotten From Head to Toe
The pattern is a revolving door of deliberate insider trading and influence by hiring retiring flag officers with active Rolodexes to be exploited in bent bidding and shadowy acquisition practices in an already sclerotic and gummed-up acquisition system that can't...
The Business of America: War, War, War!
Sachs mentions Timber Sycamore which was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the CIA and supported by the United Kingdom and some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. The aim of the program was to remove Syrian president Bashar...
Mises on Wages under Capitalism
"While daily experience taught impressively that under capitalism real wage rates and the wage earners’ standard of living were steadily rising, while it became from day to day more obvious that the traditional walls separating the various strata of the population...
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