What if truth doesn’t win out until a million corpses too late? Daniel Ellsberg, one of the most heroic truth-tellers of our era, passed away on Friday at the age of 92. He risked life in prison to leak the Pentagon Papers during the Nixon administration. Ellsberg...
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By Gambling on Deterrence, Washington Must Prepare for Failure in the Pacific
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jun 19, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
It has become increasingly apparent that any notion of U.S. “strategic ambiguity” with respect to Taiwan is dead. Both the Joe Biden administration’s rhetoric and U.S. military deployments in the western Pacific indicate that the United States will come to Taiwan’s...
January 6th Journalist Headed to Trial in Landmark Press Freedom Case
by Ken Silva | Jun 19, 2023 | Featured Articles
“Journalism is not a crime,” President Joe Biden declared at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner just over a month ago. Meanwhile, Biden’s DOJ is prosecuting North Carolina-based independent reporter Stephen Horn, who entered Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, 2021. Horn, by...
TGIF: Markets Clean Up
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 16, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Donald Boudreaux, a professor of economics at George Mason University, has been a great defender of individual liberty for a long time. One of his favorite projects is pointing out how innovative and usually unnewsworthy market activity, to the extent that government...
WATCH: Waco Cops Go to Wrong Home, Kill Innocent Couple’s Dog
by Matt Agorist | Jun 15, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
A horrific turn of events unfolded in Texas when Waco Police officers, responding to a 911 call, arrived at the wrong address and fatally shot an innocent couple's dog. Bodycam footage of this gross incompetence has been released by the Waco Police, which provides a...
Frenzied Russophobia Causes Popular Author to Cancel Upcoming Novel
by Connor Freeman | Jun 15, 2023 | Featured Articles
Elizabeth Gilbert, the best-selling American author, announced last week that she would soon be publishing a novel set in Russia. In light of a Russo-phobic public relations campaign unleashed against her, the Eat, Pray, Love author has since rescinded those plans. In...
While the West Seeks Victory in Ukraine, the Global South Seeks Peace
by Ted Snider | Jun 14, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There is a revealing difference between the peace proposals for the Russo-Ukrainian War that come from the Global South and peace proposals that come from the NATO-aligned West. For starters, no peace proposals have come from the West, while several have come from the...
The Democrats vs. Trump: A Bad Horror Movie?
by Ron Paul | Jun 14, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics
The Democrats and Donald Trump reminds me of a bad horror movie, where the hapless protagonists only make the monster stronger with each attempt to eliminate it. So goes the Democrats’ endless attempts to finally rid America of the “scourge” of Donald Trump. Thanks to...