Since the Hamas-led attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023, Israel has been executing a devastating assault on the civilian population of the Gaza Strip, blocking humanitarian aid, internally displacing 75% of Gaza’s population, systematically destroying civilian...
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The Weekend at Bernie’s Election
by Kym Robinson | May 6, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
It’s time for the most important election again, a rematch. The American voter will decide who will sit at the head of the world’s biggest government. A pick between two old men, each of whom have had four years as president. Donald Trump, AKA "Orange Man," has his...
TGIF: Another Bogus Antisemitism Scare
by Sheldon Richman | May 3, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I've been watching and thinking about the nationwide campus antiwar demonstrations in support of the suffering Palestinians of Gaza, and the appalling reaction to and "coverage" of those events. Something important needs to be addressed. I won't be concerned here with...
We’ve Always Known Standing Armies Are a Threat to Liberty
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 2, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Thomas Gordon's A Discourse of Standing Armies; shewing the Folly, Uselessness, and Danger of Standing Armies in Great Britain, published in 1722, is a significant piece of literature in the canon of classical liberalism, critiquing the presence and role of standing...
Britain’s ID Card Proponents Expose Their Own Naivety
by Owen Ashworth | May 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
David Blunkett, the former United Kingdom Home Secretary, appeared on the Politics Live show this week and argued obstinately for the introduction of ID cards, saying “My guess is we will get ID cards under a Labour government." This is quite concerning since the next...
Troops on the Ground: Biden’s Plan for Ukraine
by Ted Snider | May 1, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Despite billions of dollars of military aid, equipment maintenance, training, intelligence, and planning from the United States and its partners in the political West, the war in Ukraine is going very badly. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,...
Conservatives Against ‘Hate Speech’
by Tom Woods | May 1, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
It's pretty sad watching conservatives argue like leftists, but it's all over the place now. Not so long ago they rightly ridiculed and dismissed the idea of "hate speech," but now that "anti-Semitism" is said to be the problem, all of a sudden the idea of hate speech...
The Creature From Palestine
by John Weeks | Apr 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The state is a monster that eats itself, along with individuals within its domain, its spheres of influence, and beyond. Citizens typically don’t perceive this due to the crafty rhetoric generated by the state’s intellectuals. Sometimes the rhetorical machinery breaks...