Scott Horton has released the first chapter of his book Provoked as an audio book.
Thermonuclear Crack: The Death Wish of the ‘Elites’
Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission.
Isn’t it high time we “augment” our nuclear force “posture”? Shouldn’t we fight to achieve peace through nuclear “strength” and “deterrence”? Isn’t it smart to “refurbish, rebuild, and modernize” the nuclear triad? What a great “investment” that is! And a “job-creator” too!
These are some of the buzz words thrown about by the nuclear “elites” in America. They want to sell us on new ICBMs (the Sentinel), a new stealth bomber (the B-21 Raider), and new nuclear SLBMs (on Columbia-class submarines). All this thermonuclear stupidity is projected to cost roughly $2 trillion over the next 30 years. Quite the “investment,” right?
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Ron Paul asks: Can Rubio Beat the Blob?
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:
Newly-confirmed Secretary of State Marco Rubio is facing his first real foreign policy challenge: how to get his own Department to obey President Trump’s 90-day halt on foreign development assistance. Will he be able to stand up to “the resistance” in his own shop? Also today, Trump’s shocking position on displaced Palestinians.
Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.
James Carden on Scaremongering on Sunday
Minutes before the start of the Bills-Chiefs AFC championship game on Sunday, viewers were subjected to a risible 30 second ad paid for by a shadowy dark money PAC called National Interest [sic] Action. The ad serves as a kind of scare-mongering open letter to President Trump. A voiceover informs the President (and by extension, the millions who were tuning in to the highly anticipated AFC Championship game) in oh-so-grave tones that, he, Trump…
…has an opportunity to make America bold, prosperous and free…
Make us proud of the Red White and Blue…
Our allies and partners should trust us and know that we have their backs…
The axis of aggressors should fear us…
Our strength creates peace…
And peace leads to prosperity for all.
Not bad, if your target audience is made up entirely of Fourth Graders. The reaction from my better half was “What was that?”
Conflicts of Interest: Trump’s Plan to ‘Clean Out’ Palestinians From Gaza
On COI #750, Kyle Anzalone discusses Trump’s remarks on Gaza.
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Trump’s Malevolent Yemen Policy
As expected, Trump has started the process for redesignating the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), and he is also going after USAID support for U.N. and humanitarian aid groups working in Yemen:
It also directs the US Agency for International Development to end its relationship with United Nations agencies, nongovernmental organizations and contractors “that have made payments to the Houthis, or which have opposed international efforts to counter the Houthis while turning a blind eye towards the Houthis’ terrorism and abuses.”
The Biden administration removed the Houthis from the FTO list for a very good reason, and it is a terrible mistake to put them back on. The Houthis are the de facto government of the part of Yemen where most of its people live. Labeling them as terrorists will do tremendous harm to the population. The sanctions that come with this designation threaten to cripple the economy, block remittances, and prevent the delivery of humanitarian aid. That is why humanitarian aid groups condemned the designation the first time, and it is why they are condemning it again now.