“Official Truths are often powerful illusions.”- John Pilger For most of his life, John Pilger spoke out against power and championed those who get lost in the shadows of history. The Australian-born journalist (though truly a citizen of the world) passed away in...
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U.S.-China Policy Is Not Going According to Plan
by Ted Snider | Jan 25, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On January 13, the Taiwanese returned the Democratic Progressive Party and its new leader, Lai Ching-te, to power. Lai’s winning campaign had a platform of promoting a separate identity for Taiwan and rejecting China’s territorial claims. However, the election may not...
U.S. Troops in Iraq Are a Tripwire for War With Iran
by Scott Horton | Jan 24, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The New York Times Monday noted the increasing likelihood that U.S. troops will be killed by mortars or rocket fire from Shi’ite militias in Iraq or Syria as they have been attacked and wounded repeatedly in the past three months as locals take revenge for Israel’s...
‘Humanitarianism’ As an Excuse for Colonialism and Imperialism
by Ryan McMaken | Jan 23, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Spreading civilization and human rights has long been used as an excuse for state-building through colonialism and imperialism. This idea dates back at least to early Spanish and colonial efforts in the New World, and the rationale was initially employed as just one...
To End the War in Ukraine, Expose Its Core Lie
by Ted Snider and Nicolai N. Petro | Jan 18, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The essential argument used to avoid negotiation and continue support for the war in Ukraine is based on a falsehood. That falsehood, repeated by President Joe Biden, is that when Vladimir Putin decided to invade, he intended to conquer all of Ukraine and “annihilate”...
We’re Only Now Seeing the Full Extent of U.S. Failure in Iraq
by Brad Pearce | Jan 18, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since the beginning of the current war on Gaza, American troops have been under attack across the Middle East, nowhere moreso than in Iraq. The United States has responded with a variety of airstrikes against militants in Iraq, which have repeatedly been condemned as...
Even American Neo-Nazis Have Abandoned Ukraine
by Ken Silva | Jan 17, 2024 | Blog, Foreign Policy
Editor's Note: The activities of Christopher Pohlhaus were previously reported on by the Libertarian Institute's Kyle Anzalone. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, neo-Nazis in the U.S. expressed widespread support for...
Taiwan’s Election, TSMC, and the Folly of Decoupling
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jan 17, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
With Taiwan’s presidential election now concluded, and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate William Lai Ching-te having won a plurality due to the failure of the major opposition parties (the KMT and TPP) to combine behind one candidate, tensions in East...