U.S.-Zionist imperialism in the Middle East is far from coming to an end. The Hamas attack of October 7 on Israel triggered a highly murderous phase in the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The subsequent retaliation of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and...
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Drone Swarms and the Homicidal Impunity of Governments
by Laurie Calhoun | Sep 16, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Drone swarms have been under development for years now, with the usual suspects touting the virtues of the latest and greatest automated technology to be purchased through lucrative government contracts for what are claimed to be purposes of national defense. As the...
Pragmatic Genocide
by Kym Robinson | Sep 16, 2024 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
The lesser of two or many evils is a line of reasoning that tends to favor the status quo. It compromises principles and human dignity to a point where we are made to understand the benefits of injustice and less freedom. We are told, it could always be worse. If one...
TGIF: The Russians Are Coming? The Russians Are Coming?
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 13, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an...
Double Standards Reveal the True Western Strategy
by Ted Snider | Sep 13, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Two recent events in Europe have the potential to send shock waves well beyond the continent. They are significant both in themselves and in how their double standards chisel away at the West’s heroic narrative and reveal its true cynical strategy. The first is...
Debate Debacle: Our Bleak Foreign Policy Future
by Daniel Larison | Sep 12, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
The first presidential debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump presented a bleak picture of the future of U.S. foreign policy no matter who wins in November. On the most urgent and important foreign policy issue of the year, the...
A Tale of Two Disputes: How China Handles Hanoi and Manila
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Sep 12, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A recent article in the South China Morning Post caught my eye—the topic being why Beijing has taken such an apparently different approach to its territorial disputes with Vietnam versus the similar disputes it has with the Philippines. Given the now weekly near...
Walter Block Is a Zionist Extremist, Not a Libertarian
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Sep 11, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
In an episode of The Tom Woods Show published on August 30, 2024, comedian and libertarian political commentator Dave Smith debated the topic of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip with academic Walter Block, who argued in favor of the debate resolution that “The...