The New York Times Monday noted the increasing likelihood that U.S. troops will be killed by mortars or rocket fire from Shi’ite militias in Iraq or Syria as they have been attacked and wounded repeatedly in the past three months as locals take revenge for Israel’s...
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Home Ownership Crisis: How the Fed Creates a Financial Underclass
by Thomas Eddlem | Jan 23, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
Both of the Federal Reserve Bank’s stated policies of under-market interest rates and generating a minimum of two percent general price inflation are creating a permanent financial underclass in America by keeping home ownership perpetually out of reach for struggling...
‘Humanitarianism’ As an Excuse for Colonialism and Imperialism
by Ryan McMaken | Jan 23, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Spreading civilization and human rights has long been used as an excuse for state-building through colonialism and imperialism. This idea dates back at least to early Spanish and colonial efforts in the New World, and the rationale was initially employed as just one...
Davos Demolition Derby for World Freedom
by Jim Bovard | Jan 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
The World Economic Forum had their annual conference last week in Davos, Switzerland. Once again, the Davos crowd ran a demolition derby for the destruction of liberty around the globe. The WEF seized the COVID pandemic to champion a “Great Reset” to radically...
The World Doesn’t Owe You a Thing
by Tom Woods | Jan 22, 2024 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
A huge drawback to social media is this: I'm not sure I really want everybody's opinions on every last thing, and it's frankly demoralizing to realize just how far gone so many people are. For example, one of my own Twitter followers wrote this: "The idea of having to...
TGIF: Milei at Davos
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 19, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Javier Milei, the newly elected president of Argentina, spoke the other day at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The WEF is essentially a group of people who want world affairs centrally planned by political authorities. They are...
To End the War in Ukraine, Expose Its Core Lie
by Ted Snider and Nicolai N. Petro | Jan 18, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The essential argument used to avoid negotiation and continue support for the war in Ukraine is based on a falsehood. That falsehood, repeated by President Joe Biden, is that when Vladimir Putin decided to invade, he intended to conquer all of Ukraine and “annihilate”...
We’re Only Now Seeing the Full Extent of U.S. Failure in Iraq
by Brad Pearce | Jan 18, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since the beginning of the current war on Gaza, American troops have been under attack across the Middle East, nowhere moreso than in Iraq. The United States has responded with a variety of airstrikes against militants in Iraq, which have repeatedly been condemned as...