A person's right to defend themself is sacred. It is only through the arbitrary magic of government that we create a set of standards that determine what a person is allowed to do in the moments of frightful violence. In Australia, for example, government arbitration...
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TGIF: What Is Self-Determination?
by Sheldon Richman | May 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
People go on quite a bit about self-determination these days. Some decry the denial of self-determination to "the Palestinians." Others insist that only "the Jewish people" can have the right to self-determination between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea....
The Imperial Lamb: America, Israel, and Ritual Substitution
by John Weeks | May 9, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“And for you, here are these ritual substitutes…And may they die, but I will not die.”- Keilschrifturkunden aus Boghazköi XXIV 5 I 15-16 The relationship between the United States Imperial Government (USIG) and the state of Israel is what the kids call “wtf!?” The...
The Abraham Accords Further Complicated America’s Place in the Middle East
by Aaron Sobczak | May 9, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Israel has had mostly agreeable relations with the Sunni Arab states for some time now, as they and the United States all fear an empowered Iran. Iran certainly has the capacity to be the region’s most powerful state. While it's currently sidelined on the world stage,...
Biden Said Putin Killed Navalny; He Didn’t
by Ted Snider | May 8, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There are plenty of very real things to criticize Russian President Vladimir Putin for, not least of which is invading Ukraine. But lying (in this instance) may not be one of them. Putin lied when he said Russia was not going to invade Ukraine. But, wrong though the...
Conserving the New Deal?
by Norman Singleton | May 8, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
Jeffery Tyler Syck, assistant professor of political science at the University of Pikeville, is the latest conservative to urge the right to abandon—or at least modify—its commitment to free markets and constitutionally-limited government. In an article for The...
Politics is a Game, and the Players Want to Win
by Brad Pearce | May 7, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
The recent massive “foreign aid” bill which gave over $60 billion to Ukraine was a key victory for what we call the “Uniparty.” However, this was not just a cash transfer; more accurately, quite a lot of the money went as spoils to the American military contractors...
The Great Ukraine Robbery is Not Over Yet
by Ron Paul | May 7, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The ink was barely dry on President [Joe] Biden’s signature transferring another $61 billion to the black hole called Ukraine, when the mainstream media broke the news that this was not the parting shot in a failed U.S. policy. The elites have no intention of shutting...