More than 40 percent of the Afghan Air Force students enrolled in the U.S.-based training program to fly the AC-208 Combat Caravan, a light attack combat aircraft, went AWOL, according to a quarterly report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan...
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America Cannot Save Afghanistan
by Robert Gaines and Scott Horton | Apr 30, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
After nearly two decades of bloodshed, meaningful progress is finally being made towards a conclusion of the war in Afghanistan. Negotiations with the Taliban in Qatar have achieved an uncommon consistency. On the domestic front, a bipartisan resolution matching the...
Use of Facial Recognition in Airports Draws Anger
by Steven Woskow | Apr 27, 2019 | Blog
Eoin Higgins at Common Dreams: We're basically capturing that picture at the boarding gate, providing it to U.S. Customs and Border Protection," said Farrell. "They're identifying the traveler." "It's actually the U.S. government that's implementing the biometric...
Israel’s Fifth Column Suffers Crushing Defeat At Hands of the First Amendment
by Scott Horton | Apr 26, 2019 | Blog
Why does Israel and its partisans hate free speech so much? It's because stealing and killing and lying is at the core of Israel's national strategy and daily public policy, and they're slightly worried the U.S. government might one day stop letting them take money...
You Love Government So Much
by Scott Horton | Apr 26, 2019 | Blog
Don't you? Yeah, you do. Don't lie. What would we ever do without them, you cry. Update: "Half of all black kids in the U.S. will receive a visit from child services, according to one study by the American Journal of Public Health." HALF. "Prior to this [happening to...
USA Sock-Puppet Egyptian Dictator Extends ‘Term’ to 2030
by Scott Horton | Apr 24, 2019 | Blog
What a disgrace. A "referendum," they call it. Sure. And screw the NYT and their tone here. As though their agenda diverges one iota from that of the U.S. State Department on this or anything else.
Iraq War III 1/2 (Including Syria) is Going to Stay Ugly As Hell From Now On
by Scott Horton | Apr 19, 2019 | Blog
Thanks to the U.S.A., George W. Bush's war in Iraq and Barack Obama's war in Syria caused this. Ain't no way to fix it now. Especially in western Iraq. Those people are screwed forever.
Mueller Report Obliterates Russiagate
by Glenn Greenwald | Apr 18, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
The two-pronged conspiracy theory that has dominated U.S. political discourse for almost three years – that (1) Trump, his family and his campaign conspired or coordinated with Russia to interfere in the 2016 election, and (2) Trump is beholden to Russian President...
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What Full Liberalism Is Not About
"Liberalism is a doctrine directed entirely towards the conduct of men in this world. In the last analysis, it has nothing else in view than the advancement of their outward, material welfare and does not concern itself directly with their inner, spiritual and...
Greeks Refuse to Purchase Fifty Million Dollar Floating Dumpsters From the US Navy
These floating dumpsters cost the American taxpayer 500-600 million per ship. The US Navy is trying to garage sell these malfunctioning ships to Greece and they are onto the scam. The Greek Defense Minister is smarter than the average bear. Glad to see that even...
Aesthetics and Frequencies w/Mano Elia
Mano is back to discuss the image of God in the world.
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...
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