As the presidential race enters the final stretch, politicians are recycling the usual cons to make people believe this election will be different. At last week’s Democratic National Convention, sham idealism had a starring role, accompanied by ritual denunciations of...
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TGIF: Back to Barbarism
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 23, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Has Kamala Harris inadvertently done free-market advocates a favor? Let's not get too hopeful, but maybe. How so? By pandering to voters and marketing herself as a consumer watchdog who will stamp out (undefined) supermarket "price gouging." This could create teaching...
How Taiwan Became an Issue
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 22, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Given that official Washington seems increasingly determined to fight Beijing over Taiwan, concerned Americans are right to wonder: how did the question of Taiwan come to be of such purported importance to these global powers? While several closer islands, such as the...
The Veteran Cry
by Kym Robinson | Aug 22, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Usually boys and men, that’s who is required to make war, to kill, maim, kidnap, torture and destroy. And in turn they can be killed, maimed, kidnapped, tortured, and destroyed even after they return, though they never really do. They are required to make the wars...
The Cost of Kursk
by Ted Snider | Aug 21, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The bold and surprising incursion across the border into the Kursk region of Russia has won Ukraine the temporary possession of several Russian villages and a few hundred square miles of Russian territory. But the strategically cheap Russian land may have been bought...
U.S.-Zionist Imperialism and the Middle East
by Oscar Grau | Aug 20, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A rich country leads the receiving end of U.S. foreign aid, including help for waging wars in the Middle East. This is the case of Israel, whose illegitimate origin is today considered throughout the world as the clearest of all states. Even a large part of the...
A Month Later, Questions Linger About Trump’s Attempted Assassination
by Ken Silva | Aug 20, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
It’s the one-month anniversary of the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, and it’s still not clear what happened at that deadly July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Most of the primary evidence about the event—body camera footage,...
A State Made Hell
by John Weeks | Aug 19, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The limited television series thriller (and Zionist propaganda) The Patient evokes the hell that was the Nazi killing center Auschwitz with a direct reference to Victor Frankl’s memoir, Man’s Search for Meaning: “I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the...