Ron Paul on Libya War Escalation – Congress AWOL
August 3, 2016
The Obama Administration announced yesterday that it would begin a sustained bombing campaign against ISIS in Libya. The Administration said it was acting in response to a request by the Libyan “Government of National Accord,” which was created by the UN rather than voted in by the Libyan people. Asked about the scope of this […]
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After Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 2, 2016
On August 6 each year, the world commemorates the dawn of the atomic age by remembering the obliteration of Hiroshima. In May, President Obama laid a wreath in the Peace Park that marks ground zero there. This is also the time each year when politicians, historians, veterans, and peace activists revisit the decision to use […]
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Massive Deployment of US WMD Spotlighted by Peace Group
August 2, 2016
The ad pierces your consciousness and catches you by surprise. Plastered on the side of Seattle’s King County Metro it hurls you momentarily back in time, to a time when nuclear weapons were an imminent threat to our survival. Or did the era never end? The ad – sponsored by local Ground Zero Center for […]
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I’m Paying Taxes, But What Am I Buying?
August 2, 2016
Acclaimed author and vice-president of the American Anti-Imperialist League, Mark Twain, popularized the expression, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Bureaucrats revel in distorting life’s spontaneous order with data-driven government policies and interventions. They hide behind their numbers to provide a facade of respectability, or in other instances, employ data […]
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US Celebrates Unprecedented Expansion of Global War on Terror, and Other Stories
August 2, 2016
US Celebrates Unprecedented Expansion of Global War on Terror The US announced a new target country in the War on Terror, as airstrikes rained down on Sirte, Libya. The target was ISIS and heavy casualties were reported in the initial aftermath, though it’s not clear whether any were civilians. It’s not the US’s first rebound […]
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Ron Paul on Capt. Humayun Khan: Sacrifice or Victim?
August 1, 2016
Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s team invited the parents of Capt. Humayun Khan, killed in Iraq in 2004, to speak at the convention and criticize Republican nominee Donald Trump’s policy on Muslim immigration. It was a classic trap and Trump bumbled into it. The ensuing blow-up may have made great ratings for the media, […]
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Who the Muslim Father’s DNC Speech Really Pandered To
July 31, 2016
Last Thursday night, speaking at the Democratic National Convention, Khizr Khan paid tribute to his son, U.S. Army Captain Humayun Khan, who died in Iraq on June 8, 2004, after he tried to stop a suicide bomber. As for every parent, husband, wife, brother, sister and friend who lost someone any war, I grieve with […]
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Russia Scholar Stephen Cohen vs. CNN Host Who Tries To Link Trump to Putin
July 31, 2016
Russian Scholar Stephen Cohen says Donald Trump is being wrongly linked to Putin and criticized because he’s trying to end the new Cold War.
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Tom Woods on War
July 30, 2016
The Mises Institute‘s Tom Woods explains the economics of empire:
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Chris Coyne: What is the Military Industrial Complex?
July 29, 2016
When govt and private military contractors get too close, “People are shipped off to fight and die without making our nation any safer”. Unfortunately as a result of the Military Industrial Complex in the U.S. not all acts of war actually end up making our nation any safer. When govt and private military contractors get […]
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