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Reprinted with the author’s permission from the American Committee for US-Russia Accord. Well-heeled and highly credentialed, the proteges of powerful political patrons with ties to New Haven, Cambridge, Oxbridge and corporate America occupy the highest councils of government and advise a sitting US president who, while blessed with long experience as a US Senator, hails from rather less-exalted circumstances than … Continue reading "The Best and The Brightest, Redux"

Six others were wounded.
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==== Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts British writers on peace and war C. S. Forester: The dignified occupation of man-killer ==== C. S. ForesterThe Gun Disease had come, inevitably, to complete the work so well begun by hunger, exposure, and the sword. The typhus – the Black Death – was in among […]

The unspeakable violence that plagues Israel and Palestine daily relates in part to the assertion of an ancient, ancestral, and even divinely bestowed property right to a parcel of land, which is often called “holy” and “promised.” For background, here are a few influential – which is not to say factual – passages from a … Continue reading "Inspiration for the Nakba?"

Recently, popular conservative Mark Levin went to X to voice his opinion on the ongoing war in Gaza. Levin’s position was rather tasteless when he claimed that there were no “innocent Palestinians.” He linked to an article written by D.W. Wilber, whose background is in US intelligence. In the article, he claimed that “So let’s … Continue reading "Yes, There Are Innocent Palestinians"

The Global South – or perhaps more acutely, the Global Majority – is a loose club of countries who share growing confidence in their economic strength and in their ability to resist US hegemony in favour of working with multiple poles in pursuit of their own national interest instead of America’s interests. The US has … Continue reading "Gaza and Ukraine: How the US Risks Losing the Global South"

Amazon designated Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty as the #1 New Release in Human Rights.   Amazon previously tagged the book as the #1 New Release in Human Rights Law. I’ll wager a case of good beer that Last Rights has more comic relief than any other recent book on government outrages. First chapter […]
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Hearty thanks to Hans Bader, a Washington lawyer who has done superb work defending freedom and constitutional rights for decades! Liberty Unyielding, December 10, 2023 Reading “Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty” will enrich your brain By Hans Bader Pixabay; LU Staff Share Tweet If you want to learn about the many ways the […]

James Bovard, Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty https://www.amazon.com/Lst-Rights-Death-American-Liberty/dp/B0CP9VCNDH/   CHAPTER ONE: TYRANNY COMES TO MAIN STREET Americans today have the “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, wiretapped, injected, censored, injected, ticketed, disarmed, beaten, vilified, detained, and maybe shot by government agents. Politicians are hell-bent on protecting citizens against everything except Uncle Sam. Is America […]

David Stockman was Ronald Reagan’s OMB chief and he led a heroic war against bevies of boondoggles in the 1980s.   In recent decades, he has become one of the most eloquent and piercing critics of federal follies at home and abroad.  I much appreciate his recommendation on Last Rights -and his tweeting out a punchy […]