Netanyahu had been working to sabotage the talks in the weeks leading up to his trip to Washington The Israeli assassination of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in the Iranian capital of Tehran is expected to derail negotiations for a hostage and Gaza...
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COI #647: Israeli Assassinations Aim to Draw America Into Major Middle East War
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 31, 2024 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #647, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest news from the Middle East.
Help Publish Scott’s New Book, ‘Provoked’
by Dave Smith | Jul 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
What's up, everybody? Recently, in preparation for an online debate, I asked Scott Horton for an early copy of his new book Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War With Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine. As I said on my podcast, the thing is just...
Israel’s Imperial Techno-Optimism
by John Weeks | Jul 31, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Saturday, a rocket struck a soccer field in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. At least twelve people were killed, mostly teenagers and children. Israel blamed the Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah for the attack. Hezbollah denied the charge and claimed...
News Roundup 7/31/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 31, 2024 | News Roundup
China US Announces $500 Million in New Military Aid for Philippines Amid China Tensions AWC Israel State Department Won’t Call Israeli Rape of Palestinian Prisoners a War Crime AWC Israeli Strike Hits Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza AWC Palestinians Return to Rubble in...
Is the Medal of Honor Now Subject to Woke Revisionism?
by Bill Buppert | Jul 31, 2024 | Blog
Note: We just returned from a short vacation visiting new grandchildren hence the brief interregnum of posting. The Medal of Honor is the highest citation for combat action in the US military. It's premature to say exactly what direction this is going because the DoD...
Israeli Strikes on Crucial Yemeni Port Cause $20 Million in Damage
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 30, 2024 | News
An Israeli airstrike on a fuel depot at the Yemen Port of Hodeida has resulted in tens of millions of dollars in damages to the important facility. Hodeida is a crucial point of entry for food and other goods reaching the Yemeni people. Port official Nasr al-Nusairi...
Two Decades Later, the Applause Continues…
by James Wile | Jul 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel spoke before a joint session of the United States Congress on July 24 to address the terror attacks of October 7 and ask for continued support for his war on Gaza. Before Netanyahu even arrived in Washington DC, my thoughts...
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6 Hours of Scott Horton: On with Smith, Murphy, Woods & Russell
Scott's been making the libertarian podcast rounds with our friends Dave Smith – the very failed comedian – the great economist and successful comedian (on Twitter) Bob Murphy, historian and email marketing master Tom Woods, and Clint Russell of the Liberty Lockdown...
Restricting Production
"At the bottom of the interventionist argument there is always the idea that the government or the state is an entity outside and above the social process of production, that it owns something which is not derived from taxing its subjects, and that it can spend this...
Ford Follies: The Carrier Grift That Just Keeps Giving
Stop building these things. Even the corporate/access defense media is starting to sound the alarm bells on the multi-billion carrier fiasco that is the USS Ford which is probably causing plenty of public relations professionals in the Navy to go apoplectic. As my...
“Capitalism” Is about Freedom, Not Capital
"Why 'capitalism'? Words have an unfortunate tendency to confuse. Free market capitalism is not really about capital, it is about handing control of the economy from the top to billions of independent consumers, entrepreneurs and workers, and allowing them to make...
Ticonderoga Leaves the Fleet: The US Surface Navy Continues to Shrink
The US Navy surface fleet continues to shrink. And every surface hull commissioned after the Arleigh Burke class in 1991 has been a failure. The Chinese Navy exceeds the US Navy in total warships deployed. What makes this even more astonishing is that the Chinese...
US Forces Booted Out of Niger
2024 is the end of the ten year lease after expending $110 million to build and $30 million a year to maintain the base. The French forces were booted in October 2023. American troops are leaving now and the German troops will leave in September. The military regimes...
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