Residents of Piketon, Ohio have long suspected that the area’s sky-high cancer rate stems from the nearby Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant (PORTS), which served as a uranium enrichment facility for nuclear bombs throughout the Cold War. Recent reporting from Local...
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Top Gun: Maverick and Participatory Propaganda
by John Weeks | Jul 11, 2022 | Featured Articles
Top Gun: Maverick is a brilliant film. Any film that can elicit the praise of Ben Shapiro, Willie Geist and Russell Brand, receive a five-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival and make over $1 billion is, as the Stalinists would say, “objectively”...
China Lashes Out After FBI & MI5 Accuse Beijing of International Crimes
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Jul 8, 2022 | News Roundup
Beijing has rejected allegations from US and British officials that it is stealing from Western firms, calling the claim “completely far-fetched” while slamming the United States as the “biggest threat to world peace and development.”
Afghanistan Stripped of ‘Major Ally’ Status
by Will Porter | Jul 7, 2022 | News Roundup
President Joe Biden is set to revoke Afghanistan’s “Major Non-NATO Ally” (MNNA) label, nearly one year after the collapse of Kabul’s US-backed government to Taliban militants.
A MAD Heist
by Laurie Calhoun | Jul 5, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Wars are fought by leaders who intend to win, one way or another, using any and all means available to them. The Cold War was a decades-long series of proxy battles between the two nuclear-armed superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, during which the...
Decentralization Means Different Strokes for Different Folks
by Ryan McMaken | Jul 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
Most commentary on the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization—which overturns Roe v. Wade—has focused on the decision's effect on the legality of abortion in various states. That's an important issue. It may be, however, that...
7/1/22 Shireen Al-Adeimi: The Ceasefire in Yemen is Not Enough
by Scott Horton | Jul 3, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott is joined by Shireen Al-Adeimi to discuss the war in Yemen. They talk about the War Powers Resolution in Congress and the Ramadan ceasefire, which is holding for now. Al-Adeimi points out that the Saudis dropping their support for former...
106 Years Later, the Somme Still Echoes
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jul 1, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A couple weeks ago, I watched a documentary series called Apocalypse: WWI. In the same way that Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old did, this recent viewing reiterated the war's true human cost to me. For instance, today is the 106 anniversary of the beginning of...
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The Purpose of the Antisemitism Awareness Act
The point of the House-passed (and misnamed) Antisemitism Awareness Act is not to empower the Education Department to sue and defund colleges under civil rights law. It is to make lawsuits unnecessary by chilling expression.
The Prussian Culture of Disobedience
"The German and Prussian officer corps are the officer corps with the greatest culture of disobedience–with maybe the exception of the French. The stories and events that kept alive the virtue requiring an officer–even in war–to disobey an order “when justified by...
Zionism versus Judaism
From the start, political Zionists identified their program with Judaism the religion (despite their secularism, even atheism). Also from the start, Jews -- including the most tradition-bound Jews -- vigorously disavowed that identification. They were shamed as...
Sen. Mitt Romney Admits TikTok Censorship is All About Protecting Israel
Of course it is. No one hates free speech more than Zionists. You know, because accurate descriptions of Israel make them look bad.
The F35 Continues NOT to Stick the Landing
“I’m getting tired of over-promising and under-delivering,” F-35 program head Air Force Lt. Gen. Mike Schmidt said. The newly-envisioned Block 4 would instead focus on delivering “‘must-have’ content,” Schmidt wrote, which will include an undefined “subset” of 88...
At First I Hated Rian Johnson
For making the very worst Star Wars movie, Episode 8, and ruining Luke Skywalker. But now I realize that he was just making a film about how disappointing it was to meet Mark Hamill.
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