On October 6, 1973, as Israel’s leaders observed the solemn rituals of Yom Kippur, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a coordinated surprise assault across the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights. Within hours, Israel’s much-vaunted military machine was reeling. Entire...
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Libertarian Realism: Justin Raimondo’s Challenge to Empire
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Oct 9, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When the late Justin Raimondo, co-founder and longtime editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote in 2011 that the anti-interventionist movement needed a “big picture” framework, he was attempting to distill decades of polemic into a theory of international relations....
Adam Smith and War
by James Rushmore | Oct 8, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In the third chapter of An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, economist Adam Smith observed the following: "In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them scarce...
Washington Now Violating Long-Standing, Informal Proxy War Rules
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Oct 7, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
NATO’s proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is attracting growing attention as it threatens to spiral out of control. There is ample reason for concern. What began as a limited military assistance program to Kiev from the United States and its European allies following...
That Time the United States Gave Iran Highly Enriched Uranium…
by Clark Patterson | Oct 1, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Libertarians frequently note the incoherence of American and Israeli foreign policy. Nowhere is this more apparent than with respect to American and Israeli relations with Iran over the last seventy-five years. Last June, the United States and Israel bombed Iran on...
Strategic Treason: The Empire Fetes Man Who Killed U.S. Troops
by Scott Horton and John Weeks | Sep 30, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Monday, September 22, the current president of Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa, joined the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), David Petraeus, on stage for a discussion at the Concordia Annual Summit in New York City. The summit is one of the most...
Is Spain Tearing the NATO Consensus?
by José Niño | Sep 30, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Spain, long seen as a loyal NATO ally, is now carving out a path that could make it the West’s most unexpected rebel. Since 2023, the Spanish government under the leadership of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has pursued an increasingly independent course that directly...
Remembering Pope John Paul II’s Crusade Against War
by James Rushmore | Sep 29, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Last week, Pope Leo XIV renewed his calls for peace in the Gaza Strip, this time by commending the various Catholic organizations who registered their solidarity with the besieged population of the territory. Since assuming the papacy in April, Leo has consistently...