Empires, unlike revolutions, don’t have heralds; they work off quiet aggrandizements of power, not bold declarations of freedom. But America’s imperial class appears to have a member who’s missed that memo: the Zionist hedge fund manager William Ackman, a...
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The ‘Fake China Threat’ Vindicated
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Sep 18, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For several years and in a variety of works at the Libertarian and Mises Institutes, I have argued that Washington’s bipartisan consensus about Beijing as an aggressive, revisionist challenger to U.S. global supremacy was deeply misguided. Far from seeking global...
The Strange Case of Summary Execution of Eleven Suspects in Caribbean Waters
by Laurie Calhoun | Sep 17, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The U.S. government has been executing suspected terrorists without indictment, much less trial, since the dawning of the Drone Age, on November 3, 2002. On that day, the George W. Bush administration used a Predator drone to dispatch six alleged terrorist suspects in...
Shooting Down Russian Drones Over Poland
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Sep 17, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The world is now closer to a full-scale war between NATO and Russia than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. In the early morning hours of September 10, 2025, Western air defenses spotted a fleet of Russian drones that had entered Poland’s...
Trump, India, and the China Hawks’ Horror
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Sep 11, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For more than two decades, Washington labored to bring India closer—easing sanctions, opening high-tech trade, recognizing India as a responsible nuclear power, and embedding it in U.S.-led Indo-Pacific strategy. From President George W. Bush’s civil nuclear deal and...
For Both Ukraine and Russia, Compromise Aligns With Necessity
by Ted Snider and Nicolai N. Petro | Sep 11, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As peace in Ukraine struggles to be born after three-and-a-half years of war, necessity prompts each of the participants in different ways. For Ukraine to achieve its best possible outcome, it must find a diplomatic way to avoid outright military defeat. Russia, by...
I Helped Israel Propagandize American Christians
by Brandt Burleson | Sep 9, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Sun Tzu wrote, “All warfare is based on deception." You have heard many stories about the Israeli government deceiving and manipulating U.S. officials, steering our country towards funding and even fighting their wars. Let me tell you one more: Israel exploits the...
Answering Ron Paul’s ‘What If…’ Speech
by James Rushmore | Sep 8, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On February 12, 2009, Dr. Ron Paul (R-TX) delivered one of his most striking speeches on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Since referred to as the “What If…” speech, Paul’s remarks offer a precise distillation of the libertarian critique of U.S. foreign...