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Cruel and Indiscriminate

Cruel and Indiscriminate While the recent attack on Venezuela and the capture of President Nicolás Maduro have been a startling and disturbing escalation of U.S. antagonism toward the country, U.S. economic sanctions against Venezuela for the past two decades have done considerable damage in their own right and serve as a precursor to the recent military aggression. Economic measures have often been employed in the context of warfare, sometimes with devastating effect, as in the siege of Leni...

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Don Lemon Gets the First Amendment Wrong

Don Lemon was arrested last week and charged with conspiracy against religious freedom. On January 18, an anti-ICE mob disrupted the Sunday service at a Minnesota church because the. The post Don Lemon Gets the First Amendment Wrong appeared first on First Things

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Geopolitics

#473 – Iran War Debate: Nuclear Weapons, Trump, Peace, Power & the Middle East

Debate on Iran war between Scott Horton and Mark Dubowitz. Scott Horton is the author and director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of The Scott Horton Show, and for the past three decades, a staunch critic of U.S. foreign policy and military interventionism. Mark Dubowitz is the chief executive of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, host of the Iran Breakdown podcast, and a leading expert on Iran and its nuclear program for over 20 years. This deba...

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