Casual onlookers salivate at the supposed brilliance of Israel’s intelligence services. From Mossad’s assassinations abroad to daring sabotage campaigns in hostile territory, the Jewish state has been elevated in popular imagination as a scrappy David with unmatched...
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Are Democrats More Neocon Than Republicans Now?
by Jack Hunter | Aug 25, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Last week as Donald Trump met separately with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine head Volodymyr Zelensky to potentially seek an end to the years long war between their countries, Democrats have been very upset. That peace might happen. They are worried...

Is Venezuela the Next Target of the U.S. Empire?
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Aug 22, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
President Donald Trump has deployed several warships and thousands of Marines to the southern Caribbean—just miles off the coast of Venezuela. The provocative mission was launched under the guise of an anti-narcotics crusade, but risks disastrous outcomes for both...
Contra Colby
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 21, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
So sick of liberal hegemony, critics of Washington’s foreign policy have long been apt to seize at anything that promises something, anything, different. Hence the vigorous applause directed towards anyone who doesn’t mindlessly embrace every single one of the blob’s...
Ridiculous Europe
by Ted Snider | Aug 18, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
By President Donald Trump’s transactional criterion, NATO has been a costly failure that needs fixing or needs to be cut lose. Europe has failed to pay the price and has left the United States with the financial and military burden of defending Europe. The war in...
The Dangers of ‘Trump Devotion Syndrome’
by James Rushmore | Aug 18, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
During a debate with political commentator Ryan Girdusky back in May, journalist Michael Tracey described a phenomenon he calls “Trump devotion syndrome.” (As far as I can tell, that term was originally coined by the Christian ethicist Andrew T. Walker, who referenced...
Sanctions Are Just as Deadly as War: Lancet Study
by Connor Freeman | Aug 14, 2025 | Foreign Policy, News
Ron Paul, the libertarian leaning former Texas congressman and GOP candidate for president, has always maintained that sanctions are acts of war. The Lancet Global Health recently published a study that proves him right.
The Myth of European Plunder
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 14, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Among a certain species of “critical” historian, it is an article of faith that Europe’s remarkable economic ascent was built not on its institutions, not on liberty, not on commerce, but on the systematic looting of the rest of the world. In this telling—descended...