The war in Ukraine is a complicated tangle of three wars in one. It is a civil war between Ukraine’s European leaning west and its Russian leaning east. It is a war between Ukraine and Russia. And it is a war between Russia and NATO. Ben Abelow’s book, How the West...
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New Merger Guidelines Could Make 2024 a Difficult Year for Business and Biden
by Norman Singleton | Jan 31, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
A common way politicians and government officials bury bad or controversial news is to release it at a time when it is guaranteed to receive limited attention, such as 4:45 p.m. on a Friday or right before a holiday. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the...
Debacles at Home and Abroad Propel ‘Defend the Guard’
by Jim Bovard | Jan 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The National Guard is back in the headlines thanks to a showdown at the Texas border and Joe Biden’s latest foreign policy debacle. The Biden administration has refused to enforce federal law to limit undocumented immigrants (many of whom “lost” their documents just...
Western Media’s Blackout of Israel’s “Hannibal Directive”
by Brad Pearce | Jan 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Editor's note: The Libertarian Institute's Executive Director Scott Horton recently spoke with Brad Pearce about the subject of this article and Hamas' October 7 attack on Israel. Their interview can be found here. In the time since the October 7 invasion of Israel...
The Meaning of ‘Finish ‘Em Off!’
by Laurie Calhoun | Jan 29, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
What began as a nearly universal outpouring of sympathy for the victims of the crimes of October 7, 2023, has now followed the post-9/11 trajectory, with the Israel government killing multiple times the number of victims destroyed in the precipitating attack by Hamas....
‘Black Hawk Down’ For Biden in the Red Sea
by Dan McAdams | Jan 29, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The breaking news that Ansar Allah (Houthi) fighters have fired on the USS Carney in the Red Sea today [Friday, January 26] underscores the shocking failure of the Biden Administration, which initiated airstrikes on the Houthis this month with no plan for “victory”...
TGIF: Without the State, Who’d Drag Us into Other People’s Wars?
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 26, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
This article was posted shortly before the International Court of Justice ruled provisionally that Israel's Gaza military operation can plausibly be described as acts outlawed by the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. The ICJ...
Neocons Freak As Biden Reportedly Considers Middle East Withdrawal
by Dan McAdams | Jan 26, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Neocon heads like the Middle East Institute’s Charles Lister’s are exploding with the news today that the Biden Administration may be considering withdrawing from its illegal occupations in both Syria and Iraq. First on Syria. As Lister opines today in Foreign Policy:...