On April 23, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill that included foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan along with a ban on TikTok. The next day, President Joe Biden signed the bill into effect, giving Byte Dance nine months to sell the app to an American...
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TGIF: Spooner versus bin Laden
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 26, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
In his 2002 letter to America justifying the savage 9/11 attacks, al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (himself killed in 2011) wrote after listing his grievances against the U.S. government: You may then dispute that all the above does not justify aggression against...
What Killed the Peace Talks in Ukraine?
by Ted Snider | Apr 25, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The accepted Western narrative is that, in February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine with the intent of conquering the entire country. But there is a competing narrative that is compelling enough to be worthy of consideration. Following the...
Cowardice, Not Courage, Led House Republicans to Side with the Democrats
by Connor O'Keeffe | Apr 25, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Over the weekend, the House of Representatives passed four foreign aid bills that will allocate a combined $95 billion to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and other “national security priorities.” House Republicans followed Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) lead and joined with...
America is a Democracy (That’s the Problem)
by Brad Pearce | Apr 24, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
Our rulers constantly talk about “our democracy,” often while justifying doing things which are profoundly anti-democratic. A common midwit response is, “America is not a democracy, it is a republic.” While your ninth grade history teacher may have felt smart telling...
April 20, 2024: Final Nail in America’s Coffin?
by Ron Paul | Apr 24, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When future historians go searching for the final nail in the U.S. coffin, they may well settle on the date April 20, 2024. On that day Congress passed legislation to fund two and a half wars, hand what’s left of our privacy over to the CIA and NSA, and give the U.S....
Recalling Rothbard’s Epic Destruction of Nozick
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Apr 23, 2024 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
In the annals of libertarian political philosophy, Murray N. Rothbard stands as a towering figure, known for his uncompromising advocacy of anarchism and his sharp critiques of statist ideologies. One of his most notable engagements was with the work of Robert Nozick,...
Neocon Control is Slipping Away
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. | Apr 23, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Quite a bizarre sight in the U.S. House the other day: Hundreds of Democrats waved the Ukrainian flag and chanted the name of a foreign nation as they voted to send still another enormous "aid package" to anyone on earth other than Americans. Now I expect this kind of...