Mises Institute, January 25, 2024 Biden and Forgotten Federal Financial Tyranny by James Bovard Americans were jolted last week to learn that the Joe Biden administration viewed purchasing a Bible as a potential terrorist warning sign. Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, revealed that the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network […]
It was the evening of December 13th, 2022, when tense conversations were had in the office of Senator Bernie Sanders (I–VT) who was preparing to take a vote on the war in Yemen to the floor the following morning. After years of hard lobbying by peace advocates like the Friends Committee for National Legislature, a … Continue reading "Yemen Is Experiencing the True Cost of Bernie Sanders’s Cowardice"
Two press reports stood out to me this morning: the release of the names of two US Navy SEALs who drowned two weeks ago in the Arabian Sea and the Air Force’s production authorization for the B21 Raider bomber. Both stories symbolize an imperial inertia that defines American national security policies, an inertia that is … Continue reading "Americans Are Paying a Massive Price To Maintain the Empire"
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Greek and Roman writers on war and peace Appian: Selections on war ==== AppianPunicaTranslated by W. R. Paton Scipio, when he looked upon the city (Carthage) as it was utterly perishing and in the last throes of its complete destruction, is said to have shed tears … … Continue reading →
Twenty-two minutes of mirth & political derision – the latest Two and Only Podcast For more wit and insights from Talk Show Legend Brian Wilson, check out https://brianwilsonwrites.substack.com/ January 24 episode highlights: Brian welcomed listeners to “the Existential Threat episode of The Two and Only, our weekly calculation of the roadkill of human rights littering […]
In 2011, as the Arab Spring dawned across the region, the people of Yemen rose up. On March 18, over 100,000 protesters gathered in the streets of the capital, Sanaa, demanding the resignation President Ali Abdullah Saleh. When Saleh resigned only to see Saudi Arabia, backed by the United States, slip in a reasonable facsimile, … Continue reading "Who Are the Houthis, and Why Are We Hearing From Them Now?"
==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts Greek and Roman writers on war and peace Isocrates: Addicted to war, lusting after imperial power Isocrates: War zealots plunge state into manifold disasters ==== IsocratesPanegyricusTranslated by George Norlin For sufficient is the time that is past, filled as it has been with every form of … … Continue reading →
Philadelphia radio host Rich Zeoli had me back on his show yesterday on WPHT Radio. We had plenty of hearty from political and bureaucratic follies. Rich kindly tagged me as a “great voice for freedom” and said that my new book Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty “blows my mind again and again…. […]
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The New York Times Monday noted the increasing likelihood that U.S. troops will be killed by mortars or rocket fire from Shi’ite militias in Iraq or Syria as they have been attacked and wounded repeatedly in the past three months as locals take revenge for Israel’s violence in Gaza. (AQI/ISIS sure have motive to attack … Continue reading "US Troops in Iraq Are a Tripwire for War With Iran"
Zen wisdom tells us that the finger pointing at the moon is not the moon. Yet it’s easy to fall into the illusion that when we see news about the Gaza war, we’re really seeing the war. We are not. What we do routinely see is reporting that’s as different from the actual war as … Continue reading "How the Gaza War Can Be Big News and Invisible at the Same Time"
