U.S. Drone Strikes Have Gone Up 432% Since Trump Took Office
• theantimedia.org by Carey WedlerWhen he was in office, former President Barack Obama earned the ire of anti-war activists for his expansion of Bush's drone wars.
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When he was in office, former President Barack Obama earned the ire of anti-war activists for his expansion of Bush's drone wars.
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With the new Administration just over a month old, we are seeing hopeful and discouraging signs of how the Trump foreign policy is playing out. Mises Institute Founder Lew Rockwell joins today's program to take a look at Trump thus far - and to annou
"Put simply," writes Judge Robert King of the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals, "we have no power to extend Second Amendment protections to weapons of war." In Kolbe v. Hogan, the court upheld Maryland's ban on "assault weapons," also kn
Beijing responds to USS Vinson patrolling South China Sea
The proper libertarian position on war has become a matter of controversy, although I believe it shouldn't be. "War is the health of the state," as Randolph Bourne said, as well as being "mass murder," in the words of Murray Rothbard.
Just over a week into the Trump Administration, the President issued an Executive Order giving Defense Secretary James Mattis 30 days to come up with a plan to defeat ISIS. According to the Order, the plan should make recommendations on military acti
[Editor's note: this article was originally published at the Libertarian Standard and is reprinted with permission from the author. However, please note that the essay was published on March 20, 2013, therefore, to cover the intervening four years
This week's news is dominated, once again, with reports of violent demonstrations against the Trump administration. We have seen violent demonstrations before, but something new has been added that is profoundly significant. It is the rhetoric of c
How do parents protect their children and help them feel secure again when their homes are ripped apart by war?
nuclear weapons - As long as these weapons exist, one day they'll likely be used with devastating effects, risking almost certain doom or close to it.
The following graphics prove that Russia and Iran want war:
If you want to be an American TV talking head or a Western presstitute, you are required to be brain-dead and integrity-challenged like Bill O'Reilly, CNN, MSNBC, and the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and all the rest. In
Repetition is the lowest form of brainwashing. The masses are once again being programmed. The not-so-secret word is "Chaos". Whenever you hear it, the system wants you to scream… real loud.
If you want to be an American TV talking head or a Western presstitute, you are required to be braindead and integrity-challenged like Bill O'Reilly, CNN, MSNBC, and the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and all the rest.
"Things may not be as bad as previously portrayed." In a state-run editorial on Monday, China praised comments made by Secretary of Defense James Mattis over the weekend. Mattis suggested the hotly disputed issue of the South China Sea should be
By what right does the US have to bomb the hell out of seven countries in obvious acts of war, without even declaring war?
The American military has failed to publicly disclose potentially thousands of lethal airstrikes conducted over several years in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, a Military Times investigation has revealed.
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The Saker is a level-headed person. I take it seriously when he spells out the threat to Trump's presidency presented by the paradoxical alliance of the ruling oligarchs with what purports to be the "liberal/progressive/left." It is amazing tha
For most of human history, the costs of waging offensive war have been roughly equivalent to the costs of defending against it. Since World War II, costs have shifted dramatically in favor of defense. Ironically, during this time the US has waged mor
(INTELLIHUB) -- After the neocon duo of Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham publicly criticized his executive order on immigration from the Middle East, President Trump took to Twitter to destroy the noted warmongers.
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The lives of millions of Syrians have been destroyed by a horrific war that has killed hundreds of thousands and forced millions to flee their homeland. I went there last week to see and hear directly from the Syrian people.
"She was hit with a bullet in her neck and suffered for two hours", reports quoted the girl's grandfather.
Some troubling observations from the last leader of the USSR, first posted in Time.
As much of Washington prepared for the inauguration of President Donald Trump, I spent last week on a fact-finding mission in Syria and Lebanon to see and hear directly from the Syrian people. Their lives have been consumed by a horrific war that has
President Donald Trump is getting ready to plunge into the burning Mideast with all the zeal and arrogance of a medieval crusader. The new administration's knowledge of the region is a thousand miles wide and two inches deep.
For years now I have been pointing out that Obama's lasting legacy would be his ill-advised decision back in 2009 to normalize assassination, which his administration successfully rebranded as "targeted killing".