The lame duck period has always been something of a dull, transitionary state in American politics. We’re more accustomed to presidents using their last moments of authority to pardon powerful friends and other unpopular favors. Contrary to these expectations,...
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The Australian Special Forces’ Culture of Death
by Kym Robinson | Nov 20, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Australia has a culture for war, and that culture breeds atrocities. The Australian government's own inquiry has confirmed many of the allegations leaked by journalists regarding war crimes in Afghanistan, stemming from the execution by Australian special forces of...
America’s Mistakes In Syria Must Be Declassified
by Jim Bovard | Nov 20, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
How many Syrians did you vote to kill on Election Day? Thanks to our perverse political system, the answer will be revealed over the next four years if the Biden administration drags the U.S. back into the Syrian Civil War. But there are steps that Trump can take in...
The Elite’s Horrific Transhumanist Future
by Antony P. Mueller | Nov 19, 2020 | Featured Articles
If one takes the publications of the World Economic Forum (WEF) as an indication of how the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” will change society, the world is facing a massive onslaught against individual liberty and private property. A new kind of collectivism is about...
Defense Secretary Miller Announces Partial Withdrawals from Iraq and Afghanistan
by Dave DeCamp | Nov 18, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller formally announced troop drawdowns in Afghanistan and Iraq on Tuesday. Miller said that by January 15th 2021, there will be 2,500 troops in Afghanistan and 2,500 troops in Iraq. There are currently about 4,500 U.S. troops...
H. R. McMaster Is a Damned Fool
by Doug Bandow | Nov 17, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When President Donald Trump took office, his aides promised there would always be adults in the room. Especially when it came to foreign policy, learned, stable professionals would ensure responsible and intelligent actions. Except the adults turned out to be idiots....
What Americans Should Have Learned from the Korean War
by Jim Bovard | Nov 17, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
This year is the 70th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, a conflict from which Washington policymakers learned nothing. Almost 40,000 American soldiers died in that conflict that should have permanently vaccinated the nation against the folly and evil of...
It All Goes Back to ‘Russiagate’
by Dan McAdams | Nov 16, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
How did the Russiagate hoax feed into the Covid hoax and then feed into the Election hoax? Ron Paul Institute Director Daniel McAdams ties them all together in this speech to the Mises Institute‘s recent Lake Jackson Seminar with Ron Paul. “All of a sudden the tweets...