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Preparedness versus “Price-Gouging”: Don’t Hold Out for a Hero

by Thomas L. Knapp | Sep 1, 2017 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

As the US Gulf Coast continues to reel under the impact of Hurricane Harvey, the word “hero” finds itself in much, and appropriate, use. From government first responders to Louisiana’s “Cajun Navy” to just plain old friends and neighbors, people are pitching in and...

Preparedness versus "Price-Gouging": Don't Hold Out for a Hero

by Thomas L. Knapp | Sep 1, 2017 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

6/12/17 Eric Margolis on the 1967 Six-Day War and its aftermath

by Scott Horton | Jun 12, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Eric Margolis, the famous foreign affairs correspondent and author of “War at the Top of the World” and “American Raj”, on the 1967 Arab Israeli War that started fifty years ago this June. In a wide ranging interview, Margolis delivers a 101 on postwar Middle Eastern...

Nuclear Colonialism

by Zack Sorenson | Jun 3, 2017 | Blog

This is interesting. Erik Prince, former Blackwater man - God bless 'im - suggests a literal military viceroy for Afghanistan. So much for the end of history, eh? China, Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the EU might be forced to keep up with the Joneses. Then...

5/29/17 Ken Klippenstein on newly revealed torture methods

by Scott Horton | May 29, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Ken Klippenstein discusses “CIA Documents Expose the Failed Torture Methods Used on Guantamo’s Most Famous Detainee”. The article exposes the unknown and inhumane torture methods used on Abu Zubaydah, once the success case cited by the Bush administration for its...

3/31/17 Arnaldo Claudio on National Security Advisor Gen. H.R. McMaster’s human rights violations of Iraqis in 2005

by Scott Horton | Mar 31, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show

Arnaldo Claudio, a retired senior US Military Police officer, discusses his 2005 investigation of human rights abuses of detainees in Tal Afar, in a camp commanded by then-Colonel H.R. McMaster, whom Claudio threatened to arrest. According to Claudio, detainees were...

All of Life Is a Beautiful Exchange

by Marc Guttman | Nov 2, 2016 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

Many of us in the Northern Hemisphere, Earth are enjoying autumn. For me, every year at this time the weather is comfortable, waves are up for surfing, beaches are empty, and for those of us more northern, the leaves of deciduous plants are changing colors, providing...

Meddling Abroad Invites Meddling at Home

by Sheldon Richman | Oct 22, 2016 | Blog

I'd have more sympathy for the "no foreign influence" demand if government policy stopped at the water's edge.

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I Met a Man

Located nearly three hours drive from Adelaide, the property rested in the South-East. The nearest township a good thirty minutes if you pushed your vehicle over dirty unselaed road. It was a job that a mate threw my way, help out some old timers that he knew through...

UN Review: No Evidence UNRWA Staff Are Terrorists

The UN’s review on UNRWA’s neutrality notes that Israel provided no evidence for its claim that staff members belong to terrorist organizations.

Joe Biden is Such a Liar

He lies about everything. This time it's his uncle Ambrose who was lost at sea during WWII. Genocide Joe lies that he was eaten by cannibals, smearing the people of Papua New Guinea, who fought as America's allies in that war.

John Boyd: Persona Non Grata at the Pentagon

COL John Boyd was quite the maverick in the military ranks and rocked the boat all the time. You will not though incredibly capable, he was never promoted to flag rank. One of the best insights he ever gave was that when one distills strategy simply, it is:...

Class versus Identity Politics?

Parts of the "left" and "right" often lament that class politics has given way to identity politics. I don't get that. Class was the original modern political identity, and state privilege was part of the cause. Libertarians and classical liberals long warned that...