Many politicians and pundits are in full panic over Elon Musk’s threat to restore free speech values to Twitter. While Hillary Clinton has called upon Europeans to step in to maintain such censorship and Barack Obama has called for US regulations, the Biden...
Month: April 2022
Iraqis’ Oil Did Not Pay for Rebuilding Iraq; Russians’ Yachts Will Not Pay for the US War on Russia.
by Adam Dick | Apr 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
In March of 2003, as the United States military prepared for its imminent invasion of Iraq, Paul Wolfowitz suggested to US Congress members that the US would not foot the bill for rebuilding Iraq after the devastation the US invasion would bring to the country....
Will Putin Submit to US-Imposed 'Weakening'?
by Patrick J. Buchanan | Apr 29, 2022 | Featured Articles
"Once war is forced upon us, there is no alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. War's very object is victory -- not prolonged indecision." So said Gen. Douglas MacArthur in his April 1951 address to Congress after being fired by...
Biden's Mammoth $33BN Ukraine Package Includes Help With Wartime Propaganda
by Tyler Durden | Apr 29, 2022 | Featured Articles
Politico's Christopher Miller noted earlier that the record-smashing $33 billion spending package that the White House is proposing for Ukraine actually "dwarfs the annual defense budgets of most nations." To which we naturally asked: how many billions of dollars does...
Elon Musk's Twitter Gambit and What It Means to the 'Clique in Power'
by Michael Rectenwald | Apr 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
Elon Musk’s bid to take over Twitter and turn it into a private company has apparently been successful. Now the real action begins. Musk’s buyout exposes the Big Digital media complex to unwanted and unwonted competition, while threatening to loosen its near-total...
$4 Billion and Counting: the DC War Machine Feasts on Ukraine
by Jordan Schachtel | Apr 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
After going a full administration without a new war to fill their coffers, the D.C. defense industry has finally found their next big prize. After dismissing the prospect of diplomacy between Ukraine and Russia, the Biden Administration continues to flood Ukraine with...
Going Full Orwell: Homeland Security To Launch 'Disinformation Governance Board'
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
The US Department of Homeland Security announced yesterday that it is creating a "Disinformation Governance Board" to fight "disinformation." Heading up the new outfit is, not surprisingly, a highly political Democratic Party operative who is herself a spreader of...
Wikipedia Bias
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 27, 2022 | The Liberty Report
Ten to fifteen years ago, Wikipedia, though not free of bias, seemed like a rather reliable place to find information about people, places, and events involved in modern politics. Someone desiring to research something related to current events could back then often...
Garland Stonewalls Questions about a Special Counsel in Hunter Biden Scandal Despite New Evidence Tied to President Biden
by Jonathan Turley | Apr 27, 2022 | Featured Articles
Attorney General Merrick Garland continued to refuse to address questions over his refusal to appoint a Special Counsel in the Hunter Biden investigation despite new evidence tying President Joe Biden to the controversial business deals. The New York Post...
Empire Strikes Back! EU Threatens Musk Over 'Free Speech' On Twitter
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 27, 2022 | The Liberty Report
EU officials have warned Elon Musk that he faces steep fines or an outright ban if he follows a "free speech" model once his purchase of Twitter is complete. How far will authorities go to restrict freedom of expression? Also: Twitter's top censor breaks down in tears...
Nuclear War?
by Walter E. Block | Apr 27, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Russians are a weird people. For some reason, known only to their bizarre selves, they object to German invasions of their country. And not only that: they have the inexplicable habit of strenuously opposing another such eventuality. One might well have thought...
Elon Musk, Twitter, And The Free Speech Freak-Out
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 26, 2022 | The Liberty Report
Elon Musk's seemingly successful bid to purchase Twitter and his claim to return it to a free-speech model has been met with fury and terror among that part of the population that used to champion free speech: the progressives and the left. Even the ACLU issued a...
Risking Nuclear War for a Corrupt, Increasingly Repressive Ukraine
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Apr 26, 2022 | Featured Articles
Fortunately, President Biden thus far has rejected the most risky policies that hawks are pushing in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Despite being under intense pressure, he continues to rule out proclaiming a no-fly zone, and he flatly rejects suggestions...
Must We Make a Case Against Dictatorship?
by Jeffrey A. Tucker | Apr 26, 2022 | Featured Articles
Some federal officials have made startling statements in recent days. Given the times in which we live, we can no longer take for granted that they won’t be convincing. Ever since lockdowns, which shattered all our social and political rituals and assumptions about...
The AXIS Act, a Step toward World War III
by Adam Dick | Apr 25, 2022 | Congress Alert
The Axis powers, including Germany and Japan, were the foes of the United States and other Allied powers in World War II. Decades later, President George W. Bush chose to term some other nations — Iraq, Iran, and North Korea — as a new “axis of evil.” That was...
The Ukraine War is a Racket
by Ron Paul | Apr 25, 2022 | Featured Articles
“War is a racket, wrote US Maj. General Smedley Butler in 1935. He explained: “A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the...
'Mission Accomplished'? Blinken In Kiev Announces Ukraine 'Has Already Succeeded."
by Daniel McAdams | Apr 25, 2022 | The Liberty Report
US Secretaries of State and Defense made a surprise visit to Kiev over the weekend to declare that Russia had already failed and Ukraine had already succeeded in the two-month conflict. Promising additional weapons transfers, the US is becoming ever more engaged in...
Minsk II: Two Words You’ll Never Hear on Mainstream News
by Walt Zlotow | Apr 25, 2022 | Featured Articles
Ask a hundred Americans and you’ll be lucky to find even one who’s ever heard of Minsk II. But ask those same Americans how the Ukraine war started, and you’ll likely get "Russian President Putin woke up one day and decided to re-establish the Soviet empire, starting...
Inflation, Quick and Dirty
by Jeff Deist | Apr 25, 2022 | Featured Articles
All of a sudden everyone is an expert on inflation. Your brother-in-law, your local paper, and even dilettantes at dubious outlets like the Washington Post or The Atlantic feel compelled to explain our current predicament. With the admitted rate of consumer inflation...
Ukraine: Total War?
by RT | Apr 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
The US and its NATO allies claim they are continuing to send massive military aid to Ukraine. At the same time, Washington appears to have no interest in a negotiated end to the conflict. This begs the question: What is Washington’s policy goal? Could it be direct...
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