U.S. officials stepped up their rhetoric against Iran Wednesday, warning that Washington will have to consider other “options” if attempts to revive the nuclear deal fail. At a joint press conference with his Israeli and UAE counterparts in Washington, Secretary of...
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Don’t Confuse the Falkland Islands for Taiwan
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Oct 13, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Though the conflict is little known in the United States, Chinese military planners have long obsessed over what lessons can be gained from studying the brief 1982 conflict between Argentina and Great Britain over the small collection of islands in the South Atlantic...
Cop Admits To Raping Children, Sentenced to 20 Years
by Matt Agorist | Oct 13, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
It was a dramatic day in a Jacksonville courtroom this week as multiple child victims spoke out at disgraced officer, Matthew Butler’s sentencing hearing. After facing a slew of charges related to the sexual assault of multiple children under the age of 10, Butler...
Conscience and Non-Compliance: The Case of the COVID-19 Vaccine
by Laurie Calhoun | Oct 12, 2021 | Featured Articles
How selfish, ignorant and stupid can people possibly be? ask in various ways Emmanuel Macron in France, Jacinda Arden in New Zealand, Gavin Newsom in California, Bill de Blasio in New York, and even Queen Elizabeth in Britain, along with a surprising number of other...
Against Intervention and Regime Change: A Debate With Bill Kristol
by Scott Horton | Oct 12, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The following essay is adapted from Antiwar.com editorial director Scott Horton’s statement in his October 4, 2021 Soho Forum debate with William Kristol, director of the Foreign Policy Initiative and editor of the Bulwark. The resolution was, "A willingness to...
TGIF: Looking for the Green New Deal
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 8, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I was all set this week to plunge into the details of the Green New Deal so I could see what new impositions the climate-alarmist politicians have in store for us. Then I made a startling discovery. (Startling for me, that is. I'm behind the news curve.) The Green New...
That Time I Swiped the U.S. Tariff Code
by Jim Bovard | Oct 8, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
"Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy,” as Attorney General Ramsey Clark warned in 1967. As a journalist, I have battled federal agencies for decades to try to discover the sordid details of how Americans’ rights and liberties are being shafted. Most government...
Don’t Draft Women (Or Men Either)
by Ryan McMaken | Oct 7, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
As in many previous years, this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is chock-full of terrible legislation slyly inserted for the purposes of concealing matters from the public. Both parties have been long guilty of this, with both groups using the NDAA to...