NATO Was A Big Loser In The Iran War

Japan Marks Hiroshima Anniversary Without Naming US, While Shaming Russia Russia is not happy with Japan's statements regarding the anniversary of the US military's dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima at the end of WWII. Thursday marks the 81st anniversary of the bombing which obliterated the densely-populated industrial city. The Kremlin is accusing Japanese officials of intentionally dropping any mention of just who dropped the nuke which ultimately killed some 140,000 people, the vast majority of them civilians. The city's mayor Kazumi Matsui at a ceremony held at the center of where the...

It’s Time To Stop Pretending That Migrants Are Entitled To Equal Citizenship Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us Yet another civil conflict is brewing this week as the Supreme Court tackles a number of foreign citizenship debates, including Temporary Protection Status (TPS) and Birthright Citizenship. The court has ruled that hundreds of thousands of Haitian and Syrian migrants residing in the US under TPS are no longer safe from mass deportations (a win). But, they have also ruled in favor of migrant anchor babies (a big loss). Both issues deal with changing...

The Cruel Irony Of Veterans Day Authored by Connor O'Keeffe via The Mises Institute,Today is Veterans Day. It's a day when politicians like to give speeches praising the extraordinary courage and selflessness of America's veterans and active-duty military personnel.It's also a day when American military history is often treated like a vague, homogeneous blob of sacrifice. But it's worth getting a bit more specific.We celebrate on November 11 because that's the day, back in 1918, when World War I ended. It was famously the day when the guns fell silent...