Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
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Interview: Danny Sjursen Explains War in the Age of Biden
by David Gornoski | Jan 25, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
David Gornoski starts the show by commenting on ridiculous establishment-friendly media coverage given to the Biden inauguration. Also in the show, David brings to our attention the recent nonsensical censorship taken against him by YouTube. Plus, Ret. Major Danny...
Jim Bovard in the Daily Caller: Can Ending ‘Endless Wars’ Save Trump’s Presidency?
by Scott Horton | Aug 13, 2020 | Blog
Check it out: Four years ago, Donald Trump electrified campaign audiences by denouncing “Trigger Happy Hillary” Clinton. Trump bragged in 2016 that his advisers knew “how to avoid the endless wars we are caught in now” but he has yet to deliver on what many voters...
Keith Preston on: American Secession The Looming Threat Of National Breakup
by Steven Woskow | Jul 14, 2020 | Blog
From Keith Preston at Attack The System: A review of F.H Buckley's book American Secession (available on Amazon) Americans have never been more divided, and we’re ripe for a breakup. The bitter partisan animosities, the legislative gridlock, the growing acceptance of...
Axios: Republican Operatives Launch Pro-Biden Super PAC
by Scott Horton | Jun 17, 2020 | Blog
A group of prominent Republican operatives that includes former officials from the Trump and George W. Bush administrations are launching a super PAC to turn out GOP voters for Joe Biden in November, organizers tell Axios. Details: The "Right Side PAC" aims to...
‘Our Focusgroup Has Determined ‘Truth’ is a Great Gimmick This Year’
by Scott Horton | Dec 2, 2019 | Blog
Not actual truth. Just the word, "truth." And then, oh, it turns out, not so much. From the NYT pre-mortem on Kamala "is a cop" Harris's failed campaign for president: "Then there was Ms. Harris’s campaign message. Extensive polling led her to believe that there was...
Misinformed Voters
by Matt Knight | Sep 21, 2019 | Blog
This will probably come as no surprise to regular readers of LI, but a 2018 survey on basic political knowledge revealed that the average American voter is not simply uninformed, but is systematically misinformed. The survey asked 24 questions to a sample of 1,000...
No, She’s Not Complaining About Having an Election ‘Stolen’ from Her
by Peter R. Quiñones | Aug 19, 2019 | Blog
This is where people need to stop paying attention to the messenger and listen to the message. This is all a set up for future elections. Voter Suppression Worse Now Than in the 1960s, Stacey Abrams Says
Dan McAdams on the Media’s Hilarious Gabbard Narrative
by Scott Horton | Aug 2, 2019 | Blog
These idiots. The best they can do is claim that Tulsi Gabbard is some kind of "Russian agent!" and that oh, no, "some rightwingers like her." But what do these rightwingers or libertarians like about her? That she's (relatively) antiwar! That is supposed to be...
Philip Weiss: It’s About The Benjamins
by Steven Woskow | Jul 18, 2019 | Blog
Philip Weiss at Mondoweiss is correct in pointing out that the strategy of Trump and the Republicans is to exploit the division in the Democratic party around support for Israel. The main target is large democratic donors. While Trump and the Republicans have been...
Trump Goes to North Korea, Reopens Talks
by Scott Horton | Jun 30, 2019 | Blog
Hey Trump!: we like it when you end wars. -The American voters
The Antiwar Comic: The Boycott Boycott
by Tony DiGerolamo | Aug 6, 2017 | Blog
AIPAC has definitely lost some power over recent years, but they're still a force in D.C. This boycott law is so weird. More webcomics at The Webcomic Factory.
Wrong as Usual
by Charles Goyette | Nov 9, 2016 | Blog
Tim Carney has a funny tweet about the election: "Low-income rural white voters in Pa. voted for Obama in 2008 and then Trump in 2016, and your explanation is white supremacy? Interesting." Found that jewel in an election post-mortem by Glenn Greenwald at The...
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Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
What Kind of Liberal?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am a Locke-Smith liberal.
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