On June 13, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with war correspondents and military bloggers for a question and answer session at the Kremlin. One war correspondent asked Putin “a question about the notorious red lines.” Addressing Putin, he said, “Clearly...we are...
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WATCH: Cop Arrested After Punching Compliant Man, Bashing His Head into Concrete Floor
by Matt Agorist | Jun 22, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In a disturbing revelation that questions the sanity of those entrusted with upholding the law, a Warren police officer, identified as Matthew James Rodriguez, was caught on camera brutally assaulting an inmate within the precinct walls. The brutal beatdown, which is...
Libertarianism Must Be Exclusive
by Benjamin Seevers | Jun 21, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
This Pride Month, like many before it, some libertarians are sharing the slogan “Liberty is Inclusive.” The slogan is meant to affirm the idea of equality, not only in the law, but also in how people treat one another outside of legal arrangements. Is this consistent...
They Smeared Our Anti-War Rally; Then They Marched Alongside Lockheed Martin
by Joe Shanley | Jun 21, 2023 | Featured Articles
This past February, anti-war organizers had a modest gathering on the steps of the Lincoln memorial to protest against militarism. The Rage Against the War Machine rally as it was called was unique of its kind, as figures from across the political spectrum put aside...
In Search of a New Abroad: Contextualizing Developments in U.S. Foreign Policy in the Late 19th Century
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 20, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Was America Destined to be an Empire? While Murray Rothbard is correct in Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy that “the great turning point of American foreign policy came in the early 1890s, during the second Cleveland administration,” this needs...
Our Country Desperately Needs a Peace President
by Ron Paul | Jun 20, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Most people agree that we are closer to nuclear war than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Some would even argue that we are closer now than we were in those fateful days, when Soviet missiles in Cuba almost triggered a nuclear war between the U.S. and...
Daniel Ellsberg’s Courageous Work Remains Unfinished
by Jim Bovard | Jun 19, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
What if truth doesn’t win out until a million corpses too late? Daniel Ellsberg, one of the most heroic truth-tellers of our era, passed away on Friday at the age of 92. He risked life in prison to leak the Pentagon Papers during the Nixon administration. Ellsberg...
By Gambling on Deterrence, Washington Must Prepare for Failure in the Pacific
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jun 19, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
It has become increasingly apparent that any notion of U.S. “strategic ambiguity” with respect to Taiwan is dead. Both the Joe Biden administration’s rhetoric and U.S. military deployments in the western Pacific indicate that the United States will come to Taiwan’s...