Patrick Cockburn discusses the recent attacks on a Saudi oil facility, an American drone, and two Japanese tankers, all of which have been pinned to various degrees on Iran. It's unclear to what extent Iran actually was involved—it's always possible that this is a...
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In The Middle Of The Night In The Village
by Steven Woskow | Sep 27, 2019 | Blog
It’s a scene repeated every night – soldiers and Border Police officers gathering at a military base in the West Bank, waiting for the order to head out for another arrest raid. Jerusalem Post reporter Anna Ahronheim rides along with the IDF troops on raids of...
9/23/19 Hannah Cox: the Death Penalty is Just Another Failed Big Government Program
by Scott Horton | Sep 25, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Hannah Cox, from Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty, who explains why anyone who favors smaller government should oppose the death penalty. Among the problems she cites: one in nine death penalty convicts are later outright exonerated,...
Another Giant Non-Scandal — Toldyaso
by Scott Horton | Sep 25, 2019 | Blog
Yes, Trump asked the new Ukrainian president to take a look at the firing of the prosecutor who had previously been investigating a natural gas firm that was paying then Vice President-Biden's son Hunter $50,000 per month to sit on their board. No, there is nothing...
Joint US-Afghan Strike Kills 40 Civilians at Wedding
by Jason Ditz | Sep 24, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For the second time in a week, a US military operation in Afghanistan has ended with a large number of civilians dead, and US officials offering very dubious arguments as to why it wasn’t their fault. The Sunday night attack saw US and Afghan commandos raid a house in...
Cancel Culture
by Jennifer Monroe | Sep 22, 2019 | Jen the Libertarian
From the successful cancelling of Shane Gillis to the attempted cancelling of Justin Trudeau and Brett Kavanaugh (again) to the "cancel culture isn't real" argument its been quite a week for cancel culture. Let's talk about it...
More Americans Soldiers To Saudi Arabia – A Reminder Of Who They Are Protecting
by Steven Woskow | Sep 22, 2019 | Blog
A brutal regime that seeks to maintain power at any cost. More here SAUDI Arabia has brutally executed 134 people so far this year, including six who were kids when they were arrested. The slain were tortured and slaughtered by brutal methods – including crucifixion...
Pressure-Release Valves in Participatory Fascism
by Robert Higgs | Sep 21, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Almost every nation in the world has adopted a system of participatory fascism, whereby nominally representative governments can abridge and restrict someone’s nominally recognized private-property rights. Participatory fascism may enjoy the appearance of popular...
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Fiji Follies Mimic First World Navigation Problems
There are now eight (there were nine before this disaster) total patrol vessels in the navy of Fiji; this is simply negligence and lack of proper training much like the US Navy collisions in 2017. It is extraordinarily expensive to reconstitute a vessel that has...
Up in Smoke: The Other Space Race Continues
A comprehensive ban on all nuclear testing occurred in the 1990s. The Soviet Union's last nuclear test took place on 24 October 1990; the United Kingdom's on 26 November 1991 and the United States' on 23 September 1992. Advances in the ICBM arena have continued apace...
Robert Fisk – The Road to Palestine – Anti-War Blog
In Part Two of his Three part series, From Beirut to Bosnia, Robert Fisk gives detail to the tragedy of Palestine. As it was then when the series was made, 1993, the people of Palestine had already suffered tremendously. A lost people, those blamed for the crimes of...
New Book Is A Must Read For Iraq War 2 Enthusiasts
Iraq War 2 is ancient history, like Athens’ defeat at Aegospotami or the NATO-Russia Founding Act. But for some of us, it seems like only yesterday we were being lied into one of the greatest geopolitical disasters of the Western imperial order. There’s a new book...
It’s a Crazy World
What's to be said about people who grieve over the deaths of Palestinian children in Gaza at the hands of the U.S.-backed Israeli military while simultaneously cheering the Mengele-style wrecking of children's lives in America and elsewhere at the hands of...
Fat Amy Can’t Catch a Break
Fat Amy is a nickname for the F35 Lightning II. As long as an F16 and comparable in weight to a heavy class F15, the F35 isn't necessarily a light aircraft. Flying cost per hour may have been reduced to $34,000 per hour. Maybe. The mission capable rate, the percentage...
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