Archive for the ‘Foreign policy’ Category
One year of Obama crimes and failures
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Barack Obama is already a terrible president, a war criminal who belongs in prison beside Dick Cheney and George W. Bush. He is an economic ignoramus who despises private enterprise, exalts the State over the individual, and dreams of a world in which the inert, gray, bureaucratic mediocrity of corporate-State ...
Obama-bashing quote of the day
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009In reality, the quote of the day is Chris Floyd's entire post about Tony Blair's warmongering glorification of the Iraq War and Obama's warmongering glorification of any war the Imperial Federal Government embarks on—in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, no less! But since I know you all read Chris Floyd's ...
Robert Fisk: Obama is a disaster
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009British Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk says Obama's foreign policy is a disaster potentially worse than Bush's, and that it is incomprehensible why Obama has taken on the Afghan war with such enthusiasm. I think it's safe to say that the libertarian community in general predicted his continuation of neoconservative, ...
Get it straight: the military does not protect our lives or our freedoms
Wednesday, November 11th, 2009War is the health of the State.—Randolph Bourne Today is Veterans' Day, formerly called Armistice Day. But, our exalted warmongering Statolatrist congressmen and senators and presidents couldn't have a holiday that celebrated the end of a colossal State endeavor, so in 1954 they renamed it Veterans' Day. The attention paid to ...
Quote of the day
Thursday, June 11th, 2009From Chris Floyd, as incisive and unforgiving as usual, RE: the Detainee Photographic Records Protection Act of 2009: What kind of country passes such a law? Why, a cheap, corrupt, third-rate junta state, which has elevated war and militarism into its supreme value, its "ultimate concern," its divinity—that's what kind of ...
Obama launches headlong into war on terrorism
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009Barack Obama has begun following through on his promises to continue the neocons' war on terrorism and increase the Imperial Federal Government's interference in the affairs of billions of people across the world. The London Times reports: Missiles fired from suspected US drones killed at least 15 people inside Pakistan today, ...
Sarah Palin: same old neoconservatism cost them election
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008From an article at Politico.com, reporting on an interview that appeared in the Anchorage Daily News, we learn that Sarah Palin blames her and McCain's defeat on the fact that their campaign represented the "status quo" and that the people wanted change—anything different from the Bush regime—and the McCain/Palin ticket ...
Arthur Silber on our choice of war criminals
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008I imagine many of my friends and colleagues are watching the debate between two hideous megalomaniacs, two shameless scumbags, two proud war criminals, as I write this. I don't imagine they would ever read anything as honest or powerful as Arthur Silber writes on a regular basis. I liked this ...
Women, children, and old people
Thursday, September 4th, 2008Ryan McMaken makes some good points about the politicization of the Olympics, not that anyone cares now that college football season is here, but he makes some awfully stupid statements along the way. Comparing the bad human-rights record of this year's host nation, China, to past instances of murderous governments ...
The Onion on the invasion of Iraq
Friday, August 1st, 2008The geniuses at The Onion put together an atlas of the world, Our Dumb World, and just about every page of it is hilarious. It must have taken a ton of time and manpower and research to make it. Every country of the world is profiled and summarized, with an ...
Obligatory post about Memorial Day
Monday, May 26th, 2008MSN has a quiz about "military myths"; hmmm, I wonder why they left out the one about wars and military interventions protecting our freedoms or doing anything else good for the country. Jacob G. Hornberger wrote the definitive short essay about why the troops and the military of the Imperial Federal ...
Ron Paul and Obama on USSR, Iran
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Hey, Will Bunch: since you are probably still concerned with the reasons intelligent, informed Americans hold stupid, State-loving journalists like yourself in such low esteem, here is yet another example for you: Who said the following: Here’s the truth: the Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran doesn’t have a ...
THAT is real journalism!
Saturday, May 17th, 2008Keith Olbermann gets a bad rap from libertarians because of his left-liberal socialism and the rarity of a dissenting commentator ever appearing as a guest on his show. Not having watched or heard much from him, I can't back up the latter accusation, but I've watched enough to know the ...
Libertarian lyrics
Saturday, May 10th, 2008I think the Eagles, like most music artists, and particularly their main songwriters, Don Henley and Glenn Frey, have the reputation of being quite liberal. For instance, Don Henley founded the Walden Woods Project, a non-profit effort to buy land in and around Walden Pond to preserve it from development. ...
Caleb Campbell is neither a hero nor a coward
Friday, May 9th, 2008This is the true lesson of our history: war, preparation for war, and foreign military interventions have served for the most part not to protect us, as we are constantly told, but rather to sap our economic vitality and undermine our civil and economic liberties. —Robert Higgs It was a national sports ...
Young Americans aren’t angry enough about foreign policy
Thursday, May 1st, 2008A high school student named Peter Fulham published an opinion column in USA Today complaining that young Americans are not demonstrably angry enough about the war in Iraq and the aggressive American foreign policy. Young people are tired of hearing about Iraq, and they gave up getting angry about its ...
Can anarchism save Somalia?
Sunday, April 27th, 2008"Good government" is a paradox. Any people so decent as to be capable of implementing it would be better off without it, and any people so rotten as to need it would be incapable of implementing it. —unknown Somalia's condition, its history, and the attempts by the U.N. and U.S. to impose ...
Not a sleeping giant
Monday, March 31st, 2008After September 11, 2001, I remember callers to talk-radio shows (probably Boortz and Hannity) and possibly online columnists (perhaps at TownHall.com or World Net Daily) using the old phrase "they've awoken a sleeping giant" to refer to the crimes committed against Americans and the wrath they were about to incur. ...
Grade-A tirade
Thursday, March 27th, 2008Mark Morford of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote an absolutely fantastic tirade about the complete embarrassment and failure of the Bush regime. Some highlights (the majority of the article, perhaps): You are not paying taxes merely to fund torture and bomb-dropping and the killing of countless innocents in Iraq in ...
Open letter to Boortz listeners
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008I was very interested to see this open letter to fascist neocon warmonger and all-around State lover Neal Boortz and his radio show listeners. I hope certain residents of Georgia who are co-proprietors of this site can listen to Boortz on Thursday or Friday and see if he mentions this ...
Vox Day on Ron Paul and the Bhutto assassination
Friday, December 28th, 2007Insightful, incisive, and correct, as usual. Money quote: "I'm increasingly coming to believe that Democrats are stupid, and Republicans are insane. Both conditions result in the advocacy of that which will inevitably lead to evil. In fact, that will be my explanation the next time someone asks me why I ...
Rhino Repellant
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007Wow, it seems that by agreeing to begin a libertarian blag with my friend John, I seemingly have unleashed a monster onto the world. When he approached me with the idea, I was concerned that we would not have frequent enough updates. It seems this fear was absolutely unfounded, since ...
Objectivists against Ron Paul
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007Stephan Kinsella has an excellent refutation of the Objectivist disapproval of Ron Paul as candidate for president—and, indeed, his entire philosophy in general. Kinsella says, It is clear that the primary objection of Objectivists to Paul is his foreign policy views and non-interventionism. The other criticisms do not seem to ...