President Trump must have been thrilled at the horrible circus that was the Democratic Party debate in Las Vegas last night. Rather than offer substance, it descended into a cacophony of accusations and insults. Bloomberg himself remarked that the whole thing would...
Month: February 2020
Blago Is Free
by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. | Feb 20, 2020 | Featured Articles
On Tuesday, February 18, President Trump with excellent judgment commuted the 14 year prison sentence of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, aka “Blago.” “We have commuted the sentence of Rod Blagojevich,” Trump said. “He’ll be able to go back home with his...
Show Trial Ends: Roger Stone Sentenced to 40 months in Prison, While Judge Rants About Trump
by Patrick Henningsen | Feb 20, 2020 | Featured Articles
Today, the long-time friend and Trump campaign consultant Roger Stone was sentenced to 40 months in a federal prison for multiple charges relating to his Congressional testimony and Robert Mueller’s Russia probe. US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued Stone’s...
Drug War Obtuseness
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Feb 20, 2020 | Featured Articles
Sometimes I wonder how super-smart people can be so obtuse when it comes to the drug war. A recent example of this phenomenon is Ioan Grillo, a contributing editor for the New York Times. Grillo is the author of two books on the drug war: El Narco: Inside Mexico’s...
Scandal-Ridden OPCW Now Using Twitter’s 'Hide Replies' Function
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 19, 2020 | The Liberty Report
When Twitter first implemented its “hide replies” function last year I published an article warning that it could be used by establishment narrative managers to marginalize dissident voices and diminish the relatively egalitarian nature of the platform. When I wrote...
Will Censorship Prevail over the First Amendment?
by Paul Craig Roberts | Feb 19, 2020 | Featured Articles
I remember when censorship in America was a limited phemonenon. It applied during war time—“loose lips sink ships.” It applied to pornography. It applied to curse words on the public airwaves and in movies. It applied to violence in movies. There could be violence,...
Scandal-Ridden OPCW Now Using Twitter’s 'Hide Replies' Function
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 19, 2020 | The Liberty Report
When Twitter first implemented its “hide replies” function last year I published an article warning that it could be used by establishment narrative managers to marginalize dissident voices and diminish the relatively egalitarian nature of the platform. When I wrote...
Scandal-Ridden OPCW Now Using Twitter’s 'Hide Replies' Function
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 19, 2020 | The Liberty Report
When Twitter first implemented its “hide replies” function last year I published an article warning that it could be used by establishment narrative managers to marginalize dissident voices and diminish the relatively egalitarian nature of the platform. When I wrote...
Scandal-Ridden OPCW Now Using Twitter’s 'Hide Replies' Function
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 19, 2020 | Featured Articles
When Twitter first implemented its “hide replies” function last year I published an article warning that it could be used by establishment narrative managers to marginalize dissident voices and diminish the relatively egalitarian nature of the platform. When I wrote...
Hillary's War: Nine Years Later Libya Still A Living Hell
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 19, 2020 | The Liberty Report
Nine years after a US-led attack on Libya and murder of its leader, the democracy and liberation promised by Hillary Clinton and her band of "humanitarian interventionists" has never arrived. Instead, the once-wealthiest African country is mired in civil war and the...
Scandal-Ridden OPCW Now Using Twitter’s 'Hide Replies' Function
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 19, 2020 | The Liberty Report
When Twitter first implemented its “hide replies” function last year I published an article warning that it could be used by establishment narrative managers to marginalize dissident voices and diminish the relatively egalitarian nature of the platform. When I wrote...
Rubber-Stamping Gun Grabbing
by Adam Dick | Feb 18, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Proponents of red flag laws in states or countrywide often assert that the laws protect targeted individuals’ due process rights. However, examining the exercise of the Florida red flag law in Broward County, Jacob Sullum provided in a Reason article last week plenty...
The Death Of Free Speech: Zuckerberg Asks Governments For Instructions On 'What Discourse Should Be Allowed'
by Jonathan Turley | Feb 18, 2020 | Featured Articles
I have written for years on the effort of European countries to expand their crackdown on free speech globally through restrictions on social media and Internet speech. It appears that Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has relented in what may prove the death...
Trump Is Right: The US Does Indeed Need a Space Force
by Walter E. Block | Feb 18, 2020 | Featured Articles
Right now, America has only a pathetic five divisions of the military: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines and Coast Guard. We desperately need a sixth. And what could be more fitting for our President than fulfilling this need with a brand new spanking Space Force. Thank...
18 Year Afghan War Coming To An End? Don't Hold Your Breath!
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 18, 2020 | The Liberty Report
The US and Taliban have reportedly arrived at a deal to begin drawing US troops down from the current 13,000 to 8,600 and then...well no one knows. The initial reduction of hostilities will begin on 22 February and if successful the drawdown will follow. Already...
Explaining Syria
by Philip Giraldi | Feb 18, 2020 | Featured Articles
The first week in February was memorable for the failed impeachment of President Donald Trump, the “re-elect me” State of the Union address and the marketing of a new line of underwear by Kim Kardashian. Given all of the excitement, it was easy to miss a special State...
Trump’s Budget: More Warfare, Slightly Less Welfare
by Ron Paul | Feb 17, 2020 | Featured Articles
Listening to the howls from Democrats and the applause from Republicans, one would think President Trump’s proposed fiscal year 2021 budget is a radical assault on the welfare state. The truth is the budget contains some minor spending cuts, most of which are not even...
The Koch-Soros Foreign Policy Project: 'Restraint' Or Deception?
by Daniel McAdams | Feb 17, 2020 | The Liberty Report
The big news last year was that billionaire oligarchs Charles Koch and George Soros were "burying the hatchet" and teaming up to fund a new US foreign policy based on restraint rather than "endless wars." From that cooperation came the Quincy Institute for Responsible...
Ron Paul Gives Donald Trump’s Presidency a ‘C-Minus’ Grade
by Adam Dick | Feb 16, 2020 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
During a new Fox News interview, Watters’ World host Jesse Watters asked former United States House of Representatives member and presidential candidate Ron Paul to give President Donald Trump a grade based on Paul’s evaluation of Trump’s actions as president...
Trump Supporters Are George W Bush Supporters LARPing As Ron Paul Supporters
by Caitlin Johnstone | Feb 16, 2020 | Featured Articles
The Trump administration has released its official statement to Congress justifying its drone assassination of Iran’s top military official Qassem Soleimani last month. Surprising exactly zero people, the formal notification makes no mention whatsoever of any imminent...
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