Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Part of the small residual U.S. force that the Trump administration is keeping in Syria serves no real military purpose:“Al-Tanf has no obvious military purpose,” added Sam Heller of the International Crisis Group. “The...
WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange appeared before a UK judge to request more time to prepare his case against the US extradition request. Acting more like a Soviet triubunal, the judge went on to deny his every request. He is not allowed to prepare to fight his...
Scott Horton will be at the Texas Book Festival in Austin, on Lavaca Street between 11th and 12th. He will have copies of all the Libertarian Institute books, Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan and The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews...
Socialism has been tried on six continents and in numerous countries, but always with the same failed result. Despite geographic, economic, and other national differences, the experience of socialism follows a consistent trajectory, with its trademark features –...
Check out this great interview of Sheldon Richman about his new book Coming to Palestine on the Tom Woods show.In this incredible volume of essays, collected over 30 years, Sheldon Richman exposes the true history of Israeli dispossession of the Palestinians. Coming...
My friend Marianne Goldscheider, who is 87, suffered a broken hip in July, 2018 and then, in June 2019, it happened again. When she broke her hip the first time, she was running, with her son, on a football field. After the second break, when she fell in her kitchen,...
UPDATED BELOW WITH RESPONSE FROM TULSI Hillary Clinton has never taken one iota of responsibility for losing the 2016 election. Instead, she blames Russia, WikiLeaks, John Brennan, Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein, etc. She is truly amazing (in a terrible way). Today she...
Republicans and some Democrats seem to be settling for heavy sanctions on NATO ally Turkey for its incursion into Syria, with hawks like Lindsey Graham softening his tone over Trump's decision to pull US troops from the line of fire. Do they see the shift in public...
Ron Paul, who had been the 1988 presidential nominee of the Libertarian Party, spent much time in his 2008 and 2012 Republican primary presidential runs criticizing US intervention overseas and promoting following a noninterventionist foreign policy. Some people might...
Life magazine described it as “the largest expression of public dissent ever seen in this country. Newsweek pronounced it a day, destined to go down in history along with Coxey’s Army, the Bonus Marchers and the 1963 March on Washington. Yet fifty years...
