Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept: How The Armed Services Committee, In The Middle Of A Pandemic, Approved A Huge Military Budget And More War In Afghanistan. For anyone that needs a reminder of what Democrats (and some Republicans) were saying about V.P. Dick Cheney...
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Dem, GOP Zionists Are The Tiniest Little Crybaby Millennial Snowflakes
by Scott Horton | Jul 9, 2020 | Blog
For all their shameful excesses, the Antifa Social Justice Cancel Culture Warriors have nothing on those Americans who prioritize serving the interests of the foreign nation of Israel. Here Florida GOP state legislators are going after a Florida State University...
The Breonna Taylor Tapes
by Scott Horton | Jul 9, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Justice, Scott Horton
If this one hadn't gone viral, the "law" would have buried innocent slain victim Breonna Taylor's heroic boyfriend Kenneth Walker under the prison for attempting to murder a cop. Now the tapes of his interrogation have been released. As NBC News explains: Walker was...
How the Pentagon Failed To Sell ‘Bountygate’ Hoax to U.S. Intelligence
by Gareth Porter | Jul 9, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The New York Times dropped another Russiagate bombshell on June 26 with a sensational front-page story headlined, “Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says.” A predictable media and political frenzy followed, reviving...
ICE Forms Nexus of Federal, State, Local, and Private Surveillance of Americans
by Michael Maharrey | Jul 9, 2020 | Featured Articles
When it comes to the rapidly growing national surveillance state, federal agencies such as the NSA and FBI get most of the attention. But in fact, state and local law enforcement agencies, and increasingly private third-parties, make federal surveillance possible. A...
How State Regulations Perpetuate Overpriced Housing
by Mitchell Harvey and Tam Alex | Jul 9, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
In Economic Facts and Fallacies (2011), Thomas Sowell argues that housing regulation and zoning laws, not markets, are to blame for the modern scourge of unaffordable housing. Sowell is still right. Government housing regulations have exacerbated construction costs,...
More On Michele Flournoy From Kelly B. Vlahos
by Steven Woskow | Jul 8, 2020 | Blog
Highly educated, elitist upbringing, high achiever, successful - 'She’s a technocrat—smart and efficient and highly bred for Washington’s finely tuned managerial class." "But elite is as elite does. She went from Beverly Hills High School to Harvard to Oxford, and...
The Biden Foreign Policy Team: Liberal Foreign Policy Hawks With Corporate Interests
by Steven Woskow | Jul 8, 2020 | Blog
What would foreign policy be in a Joe Biden administration? According to Jonathan Guyer at The American Prospect a Biden administration would consist of Michèle Flournoy at Secretary Of Defense surrounded by a who's-who of ex-Obama think tankers that represent...
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Unlawful Shield
Check out Cato's great new project Unlawful Shield, "Dedicated to Abolishing Qualified Immunity." "Qualified immunity is a legal doctrine invented out of whole cloth by the U.S. Supreme Court that protects government agents, including particularly law enforcement...
Robert Higgs: Astute Socialists Opt for Participatory Fascism in Practice
From the Independent Institute: "Astute socialists (if that’s not an oxymoron) opt for participatory fascism, not outright socialism, in practice. They know that outright socialism—the nationalization and central control of all the major means of production—is a...
The Onion Calls It: John McCain Edition
So, I think they published this in the "John McCain will die soon but hasn't died yet" phase of the news cycle a couple of days ago. Still, The Onion killed it. "John McCain Requests His Ashes Be Launched Into Iraq" You know, one last hurrah. Apropos, when Bush or...
NeoCons Not Ideologues; They’re Just Corrupt
Thanks LRC.com for this gem reported at zero hedge. Russia warns of "chemical provocation" as John Bolton cites intel warning of imminent use of chemical weapons by Assad (or whatever). You know the worst thing about Neo Cons? It's one thing for American Power to be...
Episode 147: Intersectional Feminism is Cancer and Here’s Your Cure
40 Minutes Mance invited "Jen the Libertarian" to come on the show and talk about her recent podcast entitled, "Toxic Intersectionality and White Guilt." Most libertarians hear these terms and immediate shut down, but with the influence these "schools of thought" have...
John McCain Was a Horrible Person and Horrible Senator and I’m Glad He’s Finally Dead.
Is this really supposed to be a thing: social pressure to "honor" -- and never diminish -- John McCain like he was some kind of hero? He wasn't. He was a terrible man. He was a liar, a warmonger, a servant of the neoconservatives, who pushed for every bloody and...
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