Save Yemen, Stop Raytheon Benefit Concert in Cambridge, Massachusetts

October 23, 2019

As Professor Griff always says, "hip hop is the infinite power healing of our people, it serves as a voice for the voiceless." Public Enemy and other groups like the Geto Boys taught us this through songs like "Fuck a War" and "Fight the Power." During the era of the Vietnam War, popular music conveyed […]

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Trump’s Plunder Doctrine Comes to Syria

October 22, 2019

Originally appeared at The American Conservative. Part of the small residual U.S. force that the Trump administration is keeping in Syria serves no real military purpose: “Al-Tanf has no obvious military purpose,” added Sam Heller of the International Crisis Group. “The real justification is, to my knowledge, denying the Syrian government and its Iranian ally […]

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‘Truth Is Treason’ – The Torture of Julian Assange

October 22, 2019

WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange appeared before a UK judge to request more time to prepare his case against the US extradition request. Acting more like a Soviet triubunal, the judge went on to deny his every request. He is not allowed to prepare to fight his extradition. Even though Assange has served his time for […]

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This Weekend, October 26-27, Scott Horton Will Be at the Texas Book Festival in Austin

October 21, 2019

Scott Horton will be at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, on Lavaca Street between 11th and 12th. He will have copies of all the Libertarian Institute books, Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan and The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019 by Scott, No Quarter: The Ravings of […]

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Back Again on the Road to Serfdom

October 21, 2019

Socialism has been tried on six continents and in numerous countries, but always with the same failed result. Despite geographic, economic, and other national differences, the experience of socialism follows a consistent trajectory, with its trademark features – poverty, shortages of resources, and repression – always on display. Senator Rand Paul’s new book, The Case […]

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Israel and Palestine: A Reexamination

October 21, 2019

Check out this great interview of Sheldon Richman about his new book Coming to Palestine on the Tom Woods show. In this incredible volume of essays, collected over 30 years, Sheldon Richman exposes the true history of Israeli dispossession of the Palestinians. Coming to Palestine turns the typical story most Americans have been told about […]

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Taking Next Steps Toward Nuclear Abolition

October 20, 2019

My friend Marianne Goldscheider, who is 87, suffered a broken hip in July, 2018 and then, in June 2019, it happened again. When she broke her hip the first time, she was running, with her son, on a football field. After the second break, when she fell in her kitchen, she recalls her only desire […]

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Hillary Clinton Says Tulsi Gabbard Is a ‘Russian Asset’ Groomed To Ensure Trump Reelection

October 18, 2019

UPDATED BELOW WITH RESPONSE FROM TULSI Hillary Clinton has never taken one iota of responsibility for losing the 2016 election. Instead, she blames Russia, WikiLeaks, John Brennan, Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, etc. She is truly amazing (in a terrible way). Today she warned about a major threat in the 2020 race: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard. Appearing […]

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Bipartisan Support For Turkey Sanctions – A ‘Victory’ For Trump?

October 16, 2019

Republicans and some Democrats seem to be settling for heavy sanctions on NATO ally Turkey for its incursion into Syria, with hawks like Lindsey Graham softening his tone over Trump’s decision to pull US troops from the line of fire. Do they see the shift in public opinion and are shifting their views? How will […]

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Bill Weld, Champion of Foreign Intervention

October 16, 2019

Ron Paul, who had been the 1988 presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party, spent much time in his 2008 and 2012 Republican primary presidential runs criticizing US intervention overseas and promoting following a noninterventionist foreign policy. Some people might expect Bill Weld would do the same thing in his current Republican primary challenge to President […]

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