Derek Wheeler | The Libertarian Institute

Betting on Russian Submission? Don’t Roll Those Dice

by Derek Wheeler | May 23, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

As we enjoy our lives within the neocon utopia that's been carefully crafted for us, let us set aside, for a moment, all basic morality and the natural rights of life, liberty, and property. Surely, if we put on the same hegemonic blinders worn by the likes of John Kirby, Victoria Nuland, Lindsey Graham and the rest, their plans in Ukraine will make perfect sense. In his February 2022 speech concerning Russia's invasion of Ukraine, President Biden said, "Today, I’m authorizing additional strong sanctions and new limitations on what can be exported to Russia. This is going to impose severe...

Foreign Aid Cannot Uplift Africa, Only Entrepreneurs Can Do That

by Derek Wheeler | Mar 28, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

As the great Ron Paul once said, "Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country." There is plenty of evidence to support this, yet the State Department has recently announced an additional $150 million in "humanitarian assistance" for the Sahel region of West and Central Africa. Specifically the G5 Sahel countries of Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger. In his March 16 press statement, Secretary of State Antony Blinken claimed this assistance, which brings the yearly total for the region to $233 million, will...

This Women’s History Month, Celebrate the Resolve of Jeannette Rankin

by Derek Wheeler | Mar 20, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Do we have a shortage of female heroes in this country? Are virtuous women that scarce? Or is it simply that Women's History Month, by eliminating women from the conversation who don't fit the narrative of the State Department and the Pentagon, failed to achieve its goal? Why would Secretary of State Antony Blinken post his admiration for a group of women who have killed (estimating conservatively) millions of people? Why wouldn't he instead promote women like Jeannette Rankin and the ideas for which she stood? Probably because she would have defied and vehemently opposed every foreign...

The Villains of Women’s History Month

by Derek Wheeler | Mar 15, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Since 1987, March has been officially celebrated as Women's History Month, when the National Women's History Project successfully petitioned Congress to pass Pub. L. 100-9. And our chief diplomat, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, made sure to show his support by posting a picture of a few women who he believes make "our global and local communities stronger in service of generations to come." This, of course, includes the three women who previously held his position: Madeleine Albright, Condoleezza Rice, and Hillary Clinton. UN Ambassador Madeleine Albright would become the first female...

What the Yemeni People Need From Us Right Now

by Derek Wheeler | Mar 8, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Accountability. This, according to Kate Kizer and Scott Paul, is the solution Yemenis need. We're supposed to believe that the same people who have contributed to the atrocities inflicted upon the people of Yemen, led by the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates, with direct support from the United States, are going to police themselves. We're supposed to believe that any congressional War Powers Resolutions are a waste of our resources. Kate Kizer is a senior non-resident fellow at the Center for International Policy, a foreign policy think tank which has historically promoted peace, while...