Three Palestinian medical staffers released from Israeli captivity say they were severely abused and humiliated. Multiple Israeli outlets and human rights organizations have documented the systemic abuse of Palestinians in detention, including torture, sexual crimes,...
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Haiti’s PM Agrees to Resign Amid Unrest
by Will Porter | Mar 12, 2024 | News
Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has announced that he will step down and make way for a transitional government.
Israel Tightens Grip on Aid Entering Gaza
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 12, 2024 | News
The head of the UN aid organization for Palestinians, UNRWA, reported that Tel Aviv has rejected aid shipments for Gaza because the supplies included children’s scissors and other life-saving mediations. Israel has used a multitude of tactics to reduce the flow of aid...
Russia Producing 3 Times More Shells Than US, Europe Combined – Report
by Will Porter | Mar 12, 2024 | News
Russia’s defense industry is turning out nearly three times more artillery shells than its American and European counterparts, according to a NATO intelligence report obtained by CNN.
Leaked Video: Israeli Soldiers Boast After Executing Unarmed Palestinian
by Will Porter | Mar 12, 2024 | News
Israel’s military said it has launched a probe into leaked footage which appears to show IDF troops boasting about the summary execution of an elderly man in Gaza.
Netanyahu Will Ignore Biden’s ‘Red Line’ Move Forward Attack Rafah
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 12, 2024 | News
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hit back at President Joe Biden after the American leader criticized the onslaught in Gaza. Netanyahu said he would order an attack on Rafah, and insisted his policies are popular among Israelis.
How Washington Killed the Nuclear Arms Control System
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Mar 12, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
During the Cold War, world populations faced the ongoing nightmare of a nuclear attack coming out of the blue. All it would have taken was one miscalculation by either side. Such a trigger could even have taken the form of a false alert. We know that at least one such...
Europe Doubled Arms Imports Over 5 Years
by Will Porter | Mar 11, 2024 | News
Europe nearly doubled its purchases of weapons in recent years, with Ukraine helping to drive the trend as it boosted imports by more than 6,000%, according to data compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
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A War of Unyielding Horror
That's what the Washington Post calls Israel's slaughter of innocents in Gaza.
Failure Follies: The US Navy Continues the Race to the Bottom
The collapse of western martial civilization is sticking to its schedule. The Wasp class LHD, USS Boxer, has suffered yet another engineering casualty. On this, the Navy delivers with a spectacularly consistent track record of failure with the Little Crappy Ships, the...
More on Immigration and Public Property
Inspired by scholar Simon Guenzl, it occurred to me that regarding "state-claimed" so-called public property, people have been wronged not primarily as taxpayers but as potential homesteaders. (See Guenzl's "Public Property and the Libertarian Immigration...
The F35: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
“Soon after publication ‘Superiority’ was inserted into the Engineering curriculum of MIT, to warn the graduates that the Better is often the enemy of the Good, and the Best can be the enemy of both, as it is always too late.” - Arthur C. Clarke Superiority by Arthur...
Thomas Szasz: Champion of Freedom
Today is the 104th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Szasz (1920-2012), the great if unappreciated libertarian and defender of individual autonomy and dignity. A psychiatrist by profession, for over 50 years, Szasz was the foremost critic of the social-control system...
Iran Attack Liveblog (PHOTOS/VIDEOS)
My live coverage of Iran's missile and drone attack on Israel Saturday night, as it happened. Obviously much of this information has either been confirmed, disproven or become obsolete by now, but the thread is full of interesting details that didn't make it into my...
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