Earlier this month, while meeting with the Iraqi Prime Minister, President Trump reaffirmed his intent to remove all U.S. troops from Iraq. “We were there and now we’re getting out. We’ll be leaving shortly,” the president told reporters at the time. Although...
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Unpleasant Times
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 31, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman
If Ludwig von Mises were alive today he would be viewing our current predicament with alarm but not surprise. He lived through something similar about a century ago. In response to inexcusable police brutality, some outraged people who've taken to the streets have...
‘Serve and Protect’? Eighty Percent of Criminal Charges Are for Misdemeanors
by Bradley Thomas | Aug 31, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
A recent meeting by a North Carolina state government task force underscored that the mission today of American police forces may well be less to “serve and protect” and more to “harass and extract.” “Of North Carolina’s 1.9 million criminal charges, 1.6 million of...
New Evidence Indicates Police Provoked Violence In Kenosha
by Matt Agorist | Aug 30, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Serious violence unfolded in Kenosha Tuesday night during protests over the shooting of Jacob Blake. The violence mentioned below, however, was not between police and protesters. It was captured on video and it was between citizens. Two people were killed and a third...
Hezbollah Bomb Plots: The Latest In Mossad Disinformation
by Gareth Porter | Aug 28, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
This article was originally featured at The Grayzone and is republished with permission. Israeli officials have exploited the massive explosion at the Port of Beirut this August to revive a dormant propaganda campaign that had accused the Lebanese militia and...
Are We About To See A Troop Withdrawal From Iraq?
by Doug Bandow | Aug 28, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Hubris, hypocrisy, and sanctimony are all constants of U.S. foreign policy. All came together in George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq. Most foreign policy analysts, other than the neoconservative war enthusiasts who dominated Bush administration decision-making,...
A Question of Motives
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 27, 2020 | Featured Articles, Politics
People who regard themselves as members of the ideological environmental movement may or may not have good science on their side in any particular matter, but they do themselves no service when they speculate wildly about the motives of their opponents. I frequently...
Will the New Title IX Be Sabotaged?
by Wendy McElroy | Aug 25, 2020 | Featured Articles
On August 14, a change of kind occurred in how educational institutions address accusations of sexual misconduct if they wish to receive federal funding. A controversial new Title IX regulation went into effect. Or did it? In today’s extraordinarily partisan times,...









