Once Again, A Crisis Raises the Question: Why Does the State Exist?

'I See Dead People': Treasury Blocks $99 Million In Federal Payments To Deceased Americans The Treasury Department announced Tuesday morning that it has successfully implemented new safeguards to prevent government payments to dead people in an effort to reduce waste and fraud. The verification system includes screening 885 million federal payments against expanded death records, effectively auditing payments totaling nearly $2.7 trillion. It has already flagged and stopped payments totaling roughly $99 million that had been marked to be sent to dead people. "Treasury has delivered on a key promise of President Trump’s...

Trump: Iran Has Freed Detained American Woman In 'Goodwill' Gesture, After Days Of Bombing Summary Detained American woman freed by Iran; Trump: "appreciates this gesture of Goodwill by Iran!" Pentagon announces second wave of strikes later Wednesday, the after initial 90-minute attack to start the day. Trump threatens wider strikes unless Iran returns to talks - says attacks to 'expand' next week. Wednesday saw 5th strait day of US bombardment on chiefly Iranian coastal sites. Iran hits US-Gulf bases and warns on regional oil exports, says it is in 'control' of Hormuz Strait. No evidence de-escalation: Tehran rejects talks...

President Trump has said that the US sent “a lot of guns” to protesters inside Iran during demonstrations and clashes that took place in January, though he believes the weapons may have been “kept” by Kurdish groups. “President Trump told me the United States sent guns to the Iranian protesters,” Trey Yingst, a reporter for […]