Medea 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.
Though much pushed by government, companies, and media, the successive coronavirus “vaccine” shots have become increasingly unpopular. This includes among medical workers.
For a third United States presidential election in a row, US agents are out warning of Russian election interference.
This 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.
Few 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.
Shikha 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.
With 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.
Kamala 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.
The American people are grasping the bias of mass media. When Gallup first asked Americans in 1972 “how much trust and confidence do you have in the mass media,” 68 percent of polled individuals answered either a “great deal” or a “fair amount.” Over the ensuing decades this positive response has plummeted, garnering just 31 percent in the most recent polling conducted in September.
A majority of United States House of Representatives members voted on September 25 to approve a resolution (H.Res. 1469) condemning 15 members of the executive branch “for their role in the Biden-Harris administration’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and noncombatant evacuation operation, which led to the injury and death of United States servicemembers, injury and death of Afghan civilians, abandonment of American civilians and our Afghan allies, and harm to the national security and international stature of the United States.”