The released photos documenting torture of prisoners at the United States government’s Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq during the Iraq War disgusted many people who could look beyond the war propaganda to feel sympathy for their fellow human beings. Even if it was assumed that all the people pictured in the midst of their torture were themselves guilty of heinous crimes — an assumption that lacked foundation, the torture was a breach of civilized behavior.
Continue readingElon Musk has talked about eliminating at least two trillion dollars of United States government yearly spending. While it would contribute a small portion toward this grand goal, a spending cut that jumps out as among the most obvious for Musk and the incoming Donald Trump administration to pursue is eliminating all US government support for National Public Radio (NPR) and its affiliated programing and radio stations.
Continue readingMedea Benjamin has done much good in educating people about violent aspects of United States foreign policy and why such should be opposed. But, via a brief video Benjamin posted Thursday at Twitter, in which she calls on people to urge Hilton to cancel an upcoming event at one of its hotels, she is promoting a curtailment of speech that endangers her cause and individual rights more broadly.
Continue readingThough much pushed by government, companies, and media, the successive coronavirus “vaccine” shots have become increasingly unpopular. This includes among medical workers.
Continue readingFor a third United States presidential election in a row, US agents are out warning of Russian election interference.
Continue readingThis week, the United States Libertarian Party released what it described in a Twitter post as “the long-awaited recap video from what can only be described as the most exciting, and talked about, Libertarian National Convention in our party’s history.” The convention occurred in May.
Continue readingFew Americans today would try to justify the United States government taking part in the Korean War in the 1950s. Even most of those who would make such an attempt would ground their argument in asserting there was a special need back then, as part of the Cold War, to prevent the expansion of communism.
Continue readingShikha Dalmia’s Thursday The Bulwark editorial “Faced With Trump, Libertarianism Shrugged” may read, for people unfamiliar with libertarianism, like a well thought out and researched takedown of libertarianism. For those who are informed, it is nonsense.
Continue readingWith the United States presidential election day less than two weeks away, some people will be looking at third party presidential candidates to see if there is one that supports a noninterventionist foreign policy. They will be doing so in large part because they see Republican nominee Donald Trump as not living up to his effort to be seen as the peace candidate in the race and Democratic nominee Kamala Harris as wedded to extreme foreign intervention, with her supporting the Biden administration’s fostering of Ukraine and Israel’s wars as examples.
Continue readingKamala Harris, notorious for avoiding anything but the friendliest interviews during her truncated presidential campaign, found herself in a pickle in her Wednesday interview with Bret Baier at Fox News. Baier was asking questions Harris did not want to answer and then following up on them in response to Harris’s evasive replies. What to do? Harris decided to employ, among other strategies, one that brings to mind a scene from the movie Forrest Gump.
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