While Americans obsess over election results, the U.S. government’s war machine has helped destroy millions of lives in the small desert land known as Yemen. Many have lauded Donald Trump as the most “anti-war president” in decades. But early in his presidency,...
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Do Mass Firings at the Pentagon Signal a Troop Withdrawal?
by Dave DeCamp | Nov 12, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A major overhaul at the Pentagon that was started with the firing of former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper could be part of President Trump’s plan to carry out last-minute troop withdrawals from countries like Afghanistan, sources have told several media outlets. A...
Elections Are Becoming Coffin Nails for Legitimacy
by Jim Bovard | Nov 11, 2020 | Featured Articles, Politics
This year’s presidential election is the fourth since 2000 to be marred by either widespread allegations of voter fraud or of foreign interference. Politicians and pundits have long counted on elections to wave a magic wand of legitimacy over the reign of whoever is...
Why Elections Do Not Represent the ‘Will of the People’
by Bradley Thomas | Nov 10, 2020 | Featured Articles
As lawsuits are being filed to challenge the results of this year’s “most important election of our lifetime,” the pundits and talking heads of the political class will repeatedly remind us that election results reflect “the will of the people.” They couldn’t be more...
Robert Fisk, Foreign Correspondant
by Kym Robinson | Nov 9, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Robert Fisk was a journalist, a historian, and a foreign correspondent reporting on the world's wars. But as a man, he was a witness. He would go into battle armed only with his eyes, and the ammunition he carried were his words. His courage was not just that he put...
We Need To Talk About the National Defense Strategy, Part I: Syria
by Connor Freeman | Nov 8, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Who remembers voting for all this brinksmanship with China and Russia? It’s time we had one of those “national conversations,” we’re incessantly admonished to have by teachers, feds and talking heads. Only this conversation should be about the National Defense...
When Will Americans Realize They Aren’t ‘One Nation’?
by Jeff Deist | Nov 6, 2020 | Featured Articles
It’s one thing for mass democracy to produce bad results, in the form of elected politicians or enacted policies. It’s another when the democratic process itself breaks down because nobody trusts the vote or the people who count it. But that’s precisely where we are....
Who’s Racist? The Continuing Tragedy of American Exceptionalism
by Connor Freeman | Nov 3, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Many young liberals truly believe that by voting for Joe Biden they’re somehow helping evict racism and fascism from the Oval Office. If only it were that easy. This columnist is thinking, in particular, of an illustrative, albeit anecdotal example. A recent...