Bush’s New Defense Budget by Robert Higgs When the Bush administration released its budget for fiscal year 2006 recently, the news media, as usual, had a tough time in making […]
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Wouldn't it be great if wars could be fought just by the assholes who started them? – The Postman
Are Iraqi Elections a Panacea?
Are Iraqi Elections a Panacea? by Dr. Ivan Eland President Bush, in his second inaugural address, used soaring idealistic rhetoric to tell us that he was going to democratize the […]
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As the Administration prepares to instigate Iran into open war and the "moral" police prepare to inflict the rest of us with their special brand of "ethics," perhaps we should […]
Read moreShould Iran Be The Next Target?
Should Iran Be The Next Target? by Dr. Ivan Eland In a recent article in The New Yorker, investigative journalist Seymour Hersh reports that the Bush administration has conducted missions […]
Read moreBad Air
Fellow Marine Thomas L. Knapp has said all I would have said on today's helicopter crash in Iraq. Read it.
Read moreFranklin D. Roosevelt and George W. Bush: Some Unsettling Similarities
Franklin D. Roosevelt and George W. Bush: Some Unsettling Similarities by Robert Higgs In view of the ideological chasm that seems to separate the admirers of Franklin D. Roosevelt from […]
Read moreGroup Punishment
U.S. Military Resorting To Collective Punishment Inter Press Service The U.S. military is resorting to collective punishment tactics in Iraq similar to those used by Israeli troops in the occupied […]
Read moreU.S. Foreign Policy: Question All Assumptions
U.S. Foreign Policy: Question All Assumptions by Dr. Ivan Eland Post-World War II U.S. foreign policy, including that of the Bush administration, has been based on certain assumptions about the […]
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Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, on Let's Look within Ourselves for Iraq's WMD: …examination must include a focus on the truthful reason […]
Read moreDoomed To Repeat
Michael Gaddy, writing for LewRockwell.com, on Is There Another 'Tet' in Our Future? Our enemy is much more cognizant of our history than are our leaders. A young intelligence officer, […]
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