The bilateral military alliance between South Korea and the United States has become increasingly unproductive and needlessly perilous for both countries. Astute American analysts have argued for decades that the arrangement is not a good deal for the United States....
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Challenging Objectivism’s Unobjective Insults
by John Weeks | Aug 3, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
During a July 10, 2023, broadcast of The Yaron Brook Show, Chairman of the Board of the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) Yaron Brook accused American historian Tom Woods of being a “moral subjectivist,” a “religionist,” an “anarchist,” “pro-Putin” and an “American hater.”...
Talking to Russia: Five Things You Won’t Believe Are Being Said Behind Closed Doors
by Ted Snider | Aug 2, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On July 6, it was revealed that secret back-channel talks have been held between former U.S. officials and “prominent Russians believed to be close to the Kremlin.” The U.S. officials do not represent the Joe Biden administration but have briefed the White House....
World War II’s Top Military Leaders Admitted Hiroshima, Nagasaki Bombings Were Needless
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Aug 2, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
The anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki present an opportunity to demolish a cornerstone myth of American history—that those twin acts of mass civilian slaughter were necessary to bring about Japan’s surrender, and spare a half-million U.S....
Implausible Deniability: The US Government Approach to Ukraine
by Laurie Calhoun | Aug 1, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” said U.S. president Joe Biden of Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 26, 2022, during a speech in Warsaw, Poland. On December 5, 2022, multiple unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs, or lethal drones) were used...
Our National Debt Isn’t Bad, It’s Worse
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 1, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
Those paying attention know the so-called “national debt” crossed the $30 trillion mark in late 2021 and has continued to steadily climb since. With trillion-dollar annual deficits having somehow been allowed to become the norm, less than two years later the number...
An Open Letter to RFK Jr. on Israel/Palestine
by Scott Horton | Jul 31, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
This article was originally written as a private letter addressed to Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his campaign manager, former Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH). Unanswered since it was sent in early June 2023, it is now published as an open...
‘A’ Beliefs and ‘B’ Beliefs: A Defense of Thin Libertarianism
by David Hathaway | Jul 31, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Is it true that libertarians can’t agree on anything? Are libertarians allowed to have varying beliefs on lifestyle, religion, etc.? How often it is suggested that a real libertarian has to have an empty head when it comes to ideas on religion, philosophy, or...