By Will Porter | The Libertarian Institute | May 16, 2023 The far-reaching effects of America’s War on Terror may have contributed to the deaths of some 4.5 million people, according to new research by Brown University’s ‘Costs of War’ project. While many of the fatalities were the direct result of violent conflict, indirect causes […]
The Biden Crime Family and Our Corrupt Foreign Aid by James Bovard I know Romanian corruption. When I was exiting the country after investigating its collapsing economy in 1987, I made sure to bribe every guard who searched my luggage at the Bucharest airport with a pack of Kent cigarettes. But I neglected to give […]
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New York Post, May 11, 2023 How the Biden corruption empire ran under the radar for so long by James Bovard I know Romanian corruption. When I was exiting the country in 1987 after investigating its collapsing economy, I made sure to bribe every guard who searched my luggage at the Bucharest airport with a […]
Trump was ideologically incoherent and crassly transactional. But the threat he posed to American empire and thus the gargantuan security state helps establish a motive for why US intelligence intervened in both the 2016 and 2020 elections. As president, Donald Trump lavished the rich with tax cuts and deregulation. Yet, contradictorily, he also threatened the structure of American global hegemony that does so much to keep the American one percent tremendously wealthy. In fact, Trump undertook the most momentous rollback […]
Keeping the spotlight on the West’s ongoing devastation of Afghanistan and Syriaby Ian SinclairMorning Star21-22 January 2023 Amnesty International’s 1991 Annual Report should be required reading for all media studies and journalism students. “The Iraqi Government headed by President Saddam Hussein had been committing gross and widespread human rights abuses” in the 1980s, including using […]
The invasion and occupation of Afghanistan was America’s longest war. In this episode we take an overview of the war...
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RT | January 10, 2023 The secretary of Russia’s national security council has lashed out at the West, pointing to their habit of creating global threats, including numerous terrorist groups, in pursuit of their interests. Nikolay Patrushev also claimed, in an interview published by news outlet Argumenti i Fakti, that Washington’s decision to withdraw troops […]
Free West Media | January 9, 2023 While Western governments are trying to ignore or isolate the Taliban regime, which was able to take power in Afghanistan in August 2021, an Afghan-Chinese deal worth millions was concluded. China wants to develop an extensive oil field in Afghanistan. The Afghan mining minister and Chinese representatives signed […]
What to make of it? History is filled with the deeds of blood-thirsty princes bold in ambition and feeble of mind. Massacres make the man, though there is often little to merit the person behind it. The Duke of Sussex seemingly wishes to add his name to that list. In what can only be described […]
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If public opinion doesn’t match up with the Washington program then it must be wrong, misunderstood, or worse, irrelevant. By Kelley Beaucar Vlahos | Responsible Statecraft | January 6, 2023 Tell us, Washington, how do you really feel about American public opinion? For years now, Beltway establishmentarians have been trying desperately to countermand the idea … … Continue reading →
