On January 6, Indonesia formally entered BRICS as a full member. It was an important geopolitical shift that went largely unreported and little discussed in the mainstream western media. BRICS is an international organization whose primary purpose is to balance U.S....
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Reform’s Plan to Save Britain from Booms and Busts
by Owen Ashworth | Feb 10, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
The newly born Reform Party UK, with its freshmen five members of Parliament, recently attempted to introduce a bill that would prohibit quantitative easing (QE) except for emergency situations. This was done through a procedure the British parliamentary system calls...
‘Recycling’ Makes Plastic Pollution Worse
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Feb 10, 2025 | Featured Articles
If you’re like many people, you’ve always thought a numbered-triangle symbol on the bottom of a plastic container tells you it’s recyclable—giving you peace of mind that when you toss it into a blue bin, it will be turned into something else. That’s not true. Those...
TGIF: Free Speech Restored?
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 7, 2025 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Don't get accustomed to me praising Donald Trump, but exceptions will occur now and then. Trump is no principled friend of liberty, not by a long shot. Judging by most of his actions and words, he recognizes no impenetrable boundary between the government and the...
Lethality First, Humanity Last
by Laurie Calhoun | Feb 6, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Pentagon personnel have been aiming to increase the lethality of troops for decades now, under the assumption that this will naturally result in military victory. The latest public figure to promote lethality is President Donald Trump’s recently confirmed secretary of...
Revisiting Rothbard’s Argument on Tariffs
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Feb 6, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
As American consumers and businesses face the looming possibility of additional tariffs under a second Trump administration, it is worth revisiting the incisive critique of protectionism put forth by economist Murray Rothbard in his book Power and Market. Rothbard’s...
Pulling the Money Chain: The NGO Network in Ukraine and the Global War on Terror
by Matt Wolfson | Feb 5, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Detritus from Joe Biden's administration doesn’t just amount to the obvious—inflation and deficit spending, regulations and wars. There’s also been a more subtle shift off of these failures, affecting who has power in our country and how they’ll use it in the future....
What DeepSeek Means for the AI Cold War
by Kym Robinson | Feb 5, 2025 | Featured Articles
Suddenly artificial intelligence (AI) is on people's lips again...well, in their screens. Many had lost interest, speculated on AI's demise and assumed that because they no longer found random image generating fun, that it was no longer a thing. But with revelations...
Forty Years Bashing the National Endowment for Democracy
by Jim Bovard | Feb 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Sunday, Elon Musk posted on X: Those who know, please reply to this post listing all the evil things that NED has done. It’s a long list. https://t.co/8smJsP5Hji — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2025 After that merciless arm-twisting, I have no choice but to...
Did Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Just Leak?
by Ted Snider | Feb 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A leaked document has given us a first glimpse at President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian online newspaper Strana, U.S. officials handed the plan to European diplomats who then passed it on to Ukraine. The existence of the plan has...
‘Red Hand’ Revolt in Serbia: People Power or Color Revolution?
by Nebojsa Malic | Feb 3, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For six weeks now, Serbia has been rattled by what purports to be a student rebellion, leading to the prime minister’s resignation last week and rumors of a snap election. Students from sixty-three colleges of five state and two private universities, as well as four...
Political Instability Looms Amid Israel-Hamas Ceasefire
by José Niño | Feb 3, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On January 15, 2025, Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire agreement, bringing Israel’s punitive military campaign in the Gaza Strip to a temporary halt. While this agreement will allay tensions in the short-term, Israel will soon be confronted with tensions on...
TGIF: Birthright Citizenship and the Constitution
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 31, 2025 | Featured, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.... —U.S. Constitution, Amendment XIV Donald Trump says he wants a "revolution of common sense." If he means it, he will abandon his...
Senators Peddle Lies, Attacking Tulsi Gabbard for Supporting Snowden Pardon
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 31, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination as Director of National Intelligence is one of the more hopeful signs that President Donald Trump will make good on his pledge to be a peacemaker. While Gabbard is not a peacenik, she has fought against some of the worst abuses of the...
Dean Acheson’s Taiwan Dilemma
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jan 30, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
In the aftermath of World War II, U.S. policymakers felt they faced an increasingly dire situation in China. By late 1949, Mao Zedong’s Communist forces had decisively defeated Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists (Kuomintang/KMT), pushing them off the mainland to Taiwan....
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American Freed From Russian Prison Following Trump Envoy’s Trip to Moscow
Marc Fogel, an American teacher arrested in Russia for possession of marijuana, was released from jail after Donald Trump’s envoy traveled to Moscow. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff's trip to Russia is the first by an American official since the invasion of Ukraine. ...
NSA Waltz: US Must ‘Recoup’ Ukraine Aid By Taking Natural Resources
President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser explained on Sunday that the White House will push for access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals as the US has invested a considerable amount of money in Kiev’s war effort. Most of Ukraine’s mineral wealth is in areas...
State Dept. Plans New $7 Billion Arms Sale to Israel
The State Department has formally notified Congress of its plans for a massive arms sale to Israel worth over $7 billion, including thousands of missiles and bombs, the Associated Press reported on Friday. This follows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to...
Iranian Supreme Leader Says Talks With US ‘Are Not Intelligent, Wise, or Honorable’
Earlier this week, President Trump signed an executive order placing maximum pressure sanctions on Tehran. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei suggested Tehran would not pursue negotiations with Washington. President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order that imposed...
USAID Shutdown Causing Funding Shortage for Ukrainian, Russian ‘Independent’ Media
Donald Trump’s shutdown of USAID has had a significant impact on several media outlets in Russia and Ukraine. Worldwide, the agency has provided nearly a half-billion in funds to media outlets. “The suspension of USAID has had a dramatic effect on both Ukrainian and...
Trump Envoy Rejects Zelensky’s Demand for Nuclear Weapons
President Donald Trump's envoy to the war in Ukraine firmly rejected Kiev's request for nuclear weapons. President Volodymyr Zelensky recently said that Kiev needs NATO membership or nuclear weapons. In an interview on Fox News, retired General Keith Kellogg said,...
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Carrier Follies: Yet Another Failure Arrow in the Quiver
You had one job. Well, two. You can't launch and receive aircraft reliably. Nor apparently can you detect and deploy sensor capabilities to aim the aircraft that occasionally leave the very expensive deck. The radar has actually degraded over time. The dual-band radar...
David Hearst Explains Trump’s Plan to Ethnically Cleanse Gaza
Trump aims to help Israel ethnically cleanse Gaza and deepen its apartheid regime in the West Bank.
“Riviera of the Middle East…”
There’s optimism among the small government conservatives, liberty nationalists and MAGA hardliners from the first weeks of Trumps second presidency. The exposure of USAID to the world, revealing waste, nefarious conduct and ideologically bias that only proves that...
Fixing Fight Club: A Missive to DOGE
President Trump, SECDEF, Mr. Musk and DOGE, I am the host of Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast and WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast. You are about to embark on a dark journey to discover the existential mismanagement and beggared martial imagination of the...
Abolish Antitrust!
"That there is inequality of ability or monetary income on the free market should surprise no one. As we have seen above, men are not 'equal' in their tastes, interests, abilities, or locations. Resources are not distributed “equally” over the earth.16 This inequality...
Police State in Mexico? Thank you Donald Trump!
Timeline / First Term… I will build the wall and Mexico will pay for it! How? I will slap huge tariffs on Mexico if they don’t stop the flow of people and drugs passing through their country and those big beautiful tariffs will cause Mexico to pay for the wall....