“Why is the World Silent?” - Chaim Kaplan Humanity has endured self-inflicted savagery for all its history. Modern civilizations have apparently transcended above the primal savagery of ancient barbarity, yet despite technology allowing us to peer in with a voyeur's...
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What’s Happening in Myanmar?
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Dec 19, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In early November, Myanmar popped into the periphery of the corporate press, as a coalition of rebel ethnic paramilitary forces began overrunning military outposts and towns in the country’s north and west. With a series of coordinated rebel offenses continuing, two...
Truth is the Biggest Threat to DC ‘Democracy’
by Jim Bovard | Dec 18, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In Washington, truth is reckoned as the greatest enemy of democracy. Hard facts are deadly threats to a president’s prerogative to define reality and impose “the will of the people.” Early this year, Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard...
Militia Leader Targeted by FBI is out of Prison, Still Fighting Conviction
by Ken Silva | Dec 18, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
About a decade before the FBI infiltrated Midwest militias and fomented a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, the bureau targeted Alaska’s militias as part of an apparent attempt to disrupt what was once a thriving Tea Party movement in that state. The...
TGIF: Ahad Ha’Am’s Prophetic Warning about Political Zionism
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 15, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Ukrainian-born Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (1856-1927), whose pen name was Ahad Ha'Am (Hebrew for one of the people), was a proponent of Spiritual, or Cultural, Zionism, which made him a rival to Theodor Herzl and Political Zionism, the movement dedicated to creating a...
Bad Advice: Ukraine Then and Now
by Ted Snider | Dec 14, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
David Arakhamiya’s recent interview enhances our understanding of the diplomatic course of the war in Ukraine in two crucial ways. Despite the political West’s insistence that Vladimir Putin had more expansive goals for invading Ukraine, Arakhamiya says that Moscow...
Penn Students’ Lawsuit Shows Campus Antisemitism Uproar Is A Manufactured Crisis
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Dec 13, 2023 | Featured Articles
Saturday’s resignation of University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill came after months of controversy—and a viral-video grilling of Magill in a congressional hearing—over allegations the school has become a hotbed of antisemitism. While those allegations have...
Tyranny Comes to Main Street
by Jim Bovard | Dec 12, 2023 | Featured Articles
The following is chapter one of James Bovard's new book, Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty, published by the Libertarian Institute. Order your copy today. Americans today have the “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, wiretapped, injected, censored, injected,...