"The word tariff, properly used, is a beautiful word. One of the most beautiful words I’ve ever heard. It’s music to my ears." —Donald Trump The once and possibly future president threatens to wage economic warfare against countries and companies everywhere if they...
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Don’t Oversell China’s Economic Crisis
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Oct 3, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Recent headlines regarding China’s economy have painted a grim picture. From sagging stock markets to the continuing, multidimensional real-estate crises, there is no shortage of negative news coming out of the world’s second-largest economy. Yet while these...
What Did the Vice Presidential Debate Teach Us?
by Dan McKnight | Oct 3, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Tuesday night was the final debate before the November election, and it was the first time a significant number of Americans were formally introduced to the vice-presidential nominees, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. Like me, Vance was a U.S....
Wage Stagflation: The Government’s All-Out War on the Middle Class
by Thomas Eddlem | Oct 2, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
If you are middle class and lately feel like you're not getting ahead, you're not wrong. The economic facts bear this out. The middle class household is taking home about the same in inflation-adjusted dollars after taxes today compared to their income in 1971....
Orwell’s War: When War is the Path to Peace
by Ted Snider | Oct 2, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The freshly elected President Barack Obama probably never imagined that he would be delivering his Nobel Peace Prize lecture by defending war. But there he was, in December 2009, doing just that. “I would be remiss if I did not acknowledge the considerable controversy...
Twelve Secrets of the Deep State
by Keith Knight | Oct 1, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Libertarian Institute managing editor Keith Knight opened the Rage Against the War Machine rally on September 28, 2024 in Washington DC. You can read his full speech below. War is a euphemism for theft funded mass murder based on lies often involving slaves known as...
The War Party Circled Around Its Mythology
by John Weeks | Oct 1, 2024 | Featured Articles
Since Tucker Carlson’s interview with friend of the Libertarian Institute Darryl Cooper, the War Party apparatchiks have been losing their minds. The spectacle of War Party consolers lashing out at Cooper highlights the intellectual depravity of regime-sanctioned...
American Atrocity: Remembering the Shenandoah Burning
by Jim Bovard | Sep 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, History
George Orwell wrote in 1945 that “the nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.” This week is the 160th anniversary of one of the worst atrocities of the American...
Joe Biden Is Responsible for Burning Lebanon
by Daniel Larison | Sep 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Joe Biden administration claims to be pushing for a “temporary ceasefire” between Israel and Hezbollah to avert a larger conflict, but this is very late in the day and it is not a serious effort to prevent a new war in Lebanon. It is at best a desperate,...
TGIF: Who Cares about Inequality?
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 27, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
What accounts for the preoccupation with income and wealth inequality? We hear about it every day. Isn't our absolute living standard what matters and whether it is improving or deteriorating? I'll bet that's what regular people care about. However, the professional...
Do Not Risk Calling Putin’s Bluff
by Ted Snider | Sep 26, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As Russia continues its advance west toward the key logistical city of Pokrovsk, whose fall would threaten Ukraine’s ability to supply its troops in the Donbas and expose fields to the west of the city over which Russian troops can pour into the rest of Donbas,...
Information Isolation from Down Under
by Kym Robinson | Sep 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
"Misinformation and disinformation pose a serious threat to the safety and wellbeing of Australians, as well as to our democracy, society and economy”– Communications Minister Michelle Rowland The Australian government is looking to further control speech and...
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Incoming NATO Chief: Bringing Ukraine Closer to Alliance Top Priority
During his swearing-in ceremony as the new Secretary General of the North Atlantic Alliance, Mark Rutte declared his top priorities were strengthening the alliance and bringing Ukraine closer to the bloc. On Tuesday, Rutte took over as the civilian head of NATO from...
News Roundup 10/1/2024
Ukraine West Seeks to Finalize Using Frozen Russian Funds to Pay for Ukraine War The Institute China Biden Approves $567 Million in Military Aid for Taiwan, Angering China AWC Israel US Sending a ‘Few Thousand’ Troops to Middle East To Defend Israel AWC Israeli...
West Seeks to Finalize Using Frozen Russian Funds to Pay for Ukraine War
The President of the Group of Seven (G7) is seeking to finalize a $50 billion loan to Ukraine that will be repaid using frozen Russian funds. Using Moscow’s money to pay for Kiev’s war effort will be a major escalation in the economic war Washington is waging against...
News Roundup 9/30/2024
Russia Zelensky: Trump Assured Me He Would Support Ukraine The Institute Israel Israel Will Continue To Increase Assault on Lebanon AWC Netanyahu: Israel Is Fighting a War on Seven Fronts AWC Israel Amasses Troops, Tanks on Lebanon Border as Heavy Airstrikes Continue...
Zelensky: Trump Assured Me He Would Support Ukraine
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told Fox News that former President Donald Trump reassured him that Washington will maintain its support for Kiev should he return to the White House. The Ukrainian leader said Trump made the remarks when the two met last week....
Kenya to Bolster US-Backed ‘Police Force’ in Haiti
After months of failing to make progress against paramilitaries in Port au Prince, Nairobi plans to surge thousands of armed Kenyans into Haiti over the next four months. Kenya is planning to deploy 2,500 soldiers, officially dubbed police, to Haiti in a US-backed...
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Anti-War Blog – Be Proud
Proud mother come and see what your soldier sons are doing, see them search crying children who no longer can walk the streets to go from home to school. They kidnap little boys, to torture or imprison. Maybe they shatter their arms and send them on their way. Cry for...
The Culture of Lying and Deceit in the US Army
It's not just the Army and all the services practice this level of institutional cravenness and dishonesty. Deceit and covering up errors is a long time practice in the US uniformed armed forces. The article is older but more true over time. The gravest peril of the...
Manned Tanks: Stop Building These Things
Arguably one of the best manned tanks ever made, the refurbished M1 Abrams is not faring well in the Ukraine and it is estimated the UKR forces have lost 20 of the 31 tanks supplied to them. This is not only a result of inadequate training, immature doctrine and...
Lead-bottom: McHale’s Navy Comes of Age in the 21st Century
USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE-11) 2020 The US Navy continues to go the way of the Royal Navy from a storied force in history to a surface fleet plagued with problems and seemingly incapable of getting anything right as we have documented in these pages at the...
Interview: Biden’s Faux Ceasefire Efforts Facilitate Israel’s Genocide
I discuss the latest news about Israel and the US role in its conflicts with the Palestinians and Hezbollah.
Failing Upward: The USAF and the Woke Circus
Now the excuse for this apartheid memo is "aspirational" but flag officer notions of aspiration become iron law in the ranks below, it is the nature of the military hierarchy. The Supreme Court made this broad-based discrimination in 2022 for officer selection illegal...