Amid simmering tensions between Washington and Beijing, Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. After the White House ordered the military to shoot down a Chinese balloon which floated...
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Let’s Talk About America’s Unprovoked War Against Iraq
by Jacob Hornberger | Feb 20, 2023 | Featured Articles
Referring to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an editorial in Saturday’s Washington Post exclaims that Ukraine’s “struggle is also a crucible for Europe and an assault against the most basic precept on which the Western system rests: the impermissibility of unprovoked...
How Ron Paul Gets Liberty Right
by Lew Rockwell | Feb 20, 2023 | Featured Articles
The great Dr. Ron Paul has been right about all the major issues that confront the world today. He is right about the Fed, the Ukraine war, the FBI, and so much else. How has he managed to do that? What has given him wisdom unique on the political scene today? The...
TGIF: Fins Left, Right, and Center
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 17, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Th[e] central question is not clarified, it is obscured, by our common political categories of left, right, and center. --Carl Oglesby, Containment and Change You got fins to the left, fins to the right And you're the only bait in town. --Jimmy Buffett, "Fins"...
The Forgotten Terrorist Pretext of the Vietnam War
by Jim Bovard | Feb 16, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since 9/11, terrorism has become the ultimate entitlement program for America’s political elite. Whether it is illegally spying on Americans or blowing Somali dissidents to pieces, invoking terrorism provides all the cover needed for Washington policymakers. But the...
Who Really Started the Ukraine Wars?
by Ted Snider | Feb 16, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Though they are being fought in the confusion of a single catastrophic conflict, there are four closely related, but distinct, wars being fought in Ukraine. The first is the war within Ukraine. The second is the war between Russia and Ukraine. The third is the proxy...
Arizona Senate Committee Passes ‘Defend the Guard’
by Michael Maharrey | Feb 16, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Today, an Arizona Senate committee passed the Defend the Guard Act to require the governor to stop unconstitutional foreign combat deployments of the state’s National Guard troops. Passage into law would take a big step toward restoring the founders’ framework for a...
Arizona Must Pass ‘Defend the Guard’
by Paul Gosar | Feb 14, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
President Joe Biden’s foreign policy is fundamentally broken. What should have been a clean, quick withdrawal from Afghanistan was given an artificial extension by the White House and bungled by complacent Pentagon brass. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been...