The US Is Dropping Bombs Faster Than It Can Make Them
April 26, 2016
Like about 90% of the news today, this would be terrific satire, if it wasn’t true. America is dropping so many bombs on ISIS that the country is in danger of running out. “We’re expending munitions faster than we can replenish them,” said Air Force Chief of Staff General Mark Welsh. Secretary of Defense Ash […]
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Escalation Without Representation: Syria, Iraq, and Black Sea
April 25, 2016
According to the Washington Post, President Obama had promised the US public no fewer than eight times that he would not put US troops on the ground in Syria and would not mount ground operations in Syria. Then the pretext of a rescue operation of the Yazidi minority was cooked up in 2014 and the […]
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Contractor Hired Former African Child Soldiers To Guard US Forces in Iraq
April 25, 2016
A defense contractor hired mercenaries from Africa for $16 a day to guard American bases in Iraq, with one of the company’s former directors saying no checks were made on whether those hired were former child soldiers. The director of Aegis Defense Services between 2005 and 2015, said contractors recruited from countries such as Sierra […]
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Daniel McAdams on How the War Party Works
April 22, 2016
At Mises.org, Jeff Deist interviews Daniel McAdams, head of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. Daniel is a foreign policy expert, having worked for many years on Capitol Hill and as an election monitor in eastern Europe. Daniel and Jeff discuss the role Dr. Paul played in creating the noninterventionist populism visible in […]
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Saudis To Kerry: We Created ISIS… And CIA Knew
April 21, 2016
It was US intervention in the Middle East, say the Saudis, that led us to create first al-Qaeda and then ISIS. The US attack on Iraq tipped the balance in the region in favor of Iran and counter-measures needed to be taken. This is nothing new. The CIA helped create and back the Mujahideen in […]
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Ron Paul on Collateral Damage – Obama OKs More Civilian Drone Death
April 20, 2016
Civilians will continue to pay a heavy price in the ongoing US war on at least seven other countries. According to a recent article, the Pentagon has issued new rules permitting a strike on a target even if up to ten innocent civilians may also get killed. Additionally, the “signature strikes” (whereby any male of […]
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President Obama Can Help Save Saudi Youth Facing Beheading
April 20, 2016
One concrete outcome that President Obama could pursue on his visit to Saudi Arabia is saving the lives of three Shia youth sentenced to be executed, most likely by beheading, for participating in nonviolent protests. Sparing their lives could also help ease the Shia/Sunni tensions that have engulfed the region. Ali al-Nimr, Dawood al-Marhoon, and […]
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A First-Hand Account of the US Kill List
April 20, 2016
There’s a new and horrifying first-hand account of the US drone war that recently made it into a mainstream news publication. Over at The Independent in the UK, they present the story of Malik Jalal, a Pakistani man that is trying to get off the US’s “Kill List”. At this point, the skeptical reader might reasonably […]
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Enemies Everywhere – The US War On The World
April 19, 2016
The USS Donald Cook, equipped with the Aegis combat system, recently found the Russian air force unwelcoming as the US conducted military maneuvers just 50 miles from Russian soil. The Russian flyover was greeted in Washington with howls of “aggression!” But why was a US Naval vessel whose purpose is to target enemy missiles — […]
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‘Humanitarian Interventionist’ Convoy Kills Kid in Cameroon
April 19, 2016
While it would be inappropriate to directly blame US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power for the tragic death of a little boy in Cameroon today, it would also be inappropriate to exculpate the ambassador. The US Ambassador, who is the embodiment of the “humanitarian” interventionist cult that makes up the Left Wing faction of […]
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