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Bannon Questions Soleimani Killing

January 8, 2020
News/World

Former White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon appeared to question the recent targeted killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani by a U.S. drone strike during an interview with the New York Times published on Tuesday. Bannon indicated that the move would hurt Trump’s support among “working-class, middle-class people, particularly people whose sons and daughters actually

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ISIS is Defeated, so Let’s Bring The Troops Home

January 20, 2018
Politics/World

In the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election, much was made of the threat of ISIS. Wild threats abounded as candidates fought each other over who would come down harder on the then-thriving Islamic State. Sen. Ted Cruz threatened to “carpet bomb (ISIS) into oblivion.” Now-President Donald Trump promised to “bomb the (expletive) out of

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Trump-Putin Alliance Pays Off In The Middle East, As Few ISIS Fighters Remain In Iraq and Syria

December 6, 2017
News/World

President Donald Trump has been widely criticized by the mainstream media and deep state apparatchiks for the way he conducts his foreign affairs, but the results speak for themselves. After pursuing an alliance with Russian President Vladimir Putin to crush ISIS, official estimates show that there are now fewer than 3,000 ISIS fighters remaining in

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American Foreign Policy Goes Horribly Wrong As Tehran Seizes Control Of Baghdad

October 21, 2017
World

Confusion is a powerful tool. Per media reports that revealed that the Iraqi federal government began operations to take control over the region of Iraqi Kurdistan, a lot of confusion still looms. Within the Beltway, people are lost and questioning whether or not the Trump Administration made the best decision to partake in a stance

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President Trump Tells Migrants To Stay Out, Slashes Number Of Incoming Refugees

September 29, 2017
News/Politics

During the presidential campaign, immigration was a defining issue for candidate Donald Trump. With bold pledges about rejecting refugees and building a big wall on the Mexican border, he was due to tackle immigration unlike any other President in recent history. As President, that has changed as Trump has struggled to match policy with his

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U.S. Severely Underestimates Civilian Deaths From Military Interventions In Iraq, Syria

September 2, 2017
News

President Donald Trump criticized unnecessary foreign military intervention frequently as a candidate and even while serving in the oval office, but the reality of his policies is not much different than what occurred under his predecessors. The Trump administration is severely underestimating civilian causalities from the warfare being conducted against ISIS in Iraq and Syria.

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U.S. Remains Silent After Iran and Iraq Sign Agreement To Strengthen Military Alliance

July 25, 2017
News

The Defense Ministers of Iraq and Iran have united to sign a pact to fight in a joint effort against “terrorism and extremism,” and the Trump administration–a hostile critic of the Iranian regime–is silent thus far. Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan and Iraqi Defense Minister Erfan al-Hiyali came together on Sunday to sign a memorandum

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The Empire Strikes Back: Congress Threatens to Terminate Kurdish Foreign Aid for Secession Referendum

July 1, 2017
News

The brave fighters of Kurdistan are working to ward off ISIS in Iraq, and they are receiving a great deal of help from Uncle Sam to accomplish their noble goal. However, the Kurds are receiving a rude awakening that any help from Washington D.C. comes with many strings attached. Congress has proposed a non-binding resolution

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The War on Trump: A Guide for Conservatives, Libertarians & Liberals

June 17, 2017
Politics

Periodically, America experiences episodes of mass, hysterical contagion. What is “hysterical contagion”? A sociologist explains it as the spread of symptoms of an illness among a group, absent any physiological disease. It provides a way of coping with a situation that cannot be handled with the usual coping mechanism. For example, in 1983, girls in

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When the left turned on Wikileaks and abandoned Chelsea Manning

January 6, 2017
Politics

Once upon a time, in a time that feels long ago, the American left was staunchly opposed to war. Former President George W. Bush was an evil man because he sent the United States military into Iraq as part of an invasion based upon lies. The weapons of mass destruction justification for overthrowing Saddam Hussein

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A Time for War: How Foreign Policy Can Make or Break the Liberty Movement

September 18, 2014
World

The Middle East is in flames again, and for once, Liberty people seem unsure what to think about it.  For years our only rallying cry was “no more nation-building – bring the troops home!” And for a while, that was enough.  Our foreign policy ideals were so diametrically opposed to those in play for the

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Beheading Children Beneath the Black Flag

August 30, 2014
Politics

Qur’an, Surah 8:12 – “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them”  Matthew 24:9 – “Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake.” There is an unambiguous

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“By the Waters of Babylon We Sat and Wept”

July 18, 2014
World

“By the Waters of Babylon” by Don McLean Iraq,  once known as the “cradle of civilization” may soon come to be known as the  “graveyard of civilization.”  The first laws, writing, astronomy and math were all gifts that Mesopotamia gave to advance civilization.  The most famous Mesopotamian from Ur of the Chaldeans, was Abraham,  the

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