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TGIF: Congress Again Rewards Israel’s Misdeeds
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 18, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
To judge by what Congress is up to these days, one would think that it wants to reward Israel for its relentless confiscation of Palestinian land and continued ethnic cleansing. Congress -- which is not only interested in "the Benjamins," that is, Israel Lobby...
Have We Lost Our Humanity?
by Connor Freeman | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Social media oligarchs and the corporate press are flooding Americans’ minds with Ukrainian officials’ pleas, most notably from President Volodymyr Zelensky, calling for the U.S. and NATO to “close the sky.” That is to implement a No-Fly-Zone over Ukraine, shoot down...
Facebook Lifts Ban on Calls for Violence (But Only Against Russians)
by Dan McAdams | Mar 17, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Anyone following social media’s “Community Standards” knows how selectively they are enforced. Your humble writer was permanently banned from Twitter in 2019 for using a word to describe Sean Hannity’s mental slowness that is otherwise used perhaps millions of times...
When Goods Don’t Cross Borders, Soldiers Do
by Vibhu Vikramaditya | Mar 15, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The great free trade and most astute defender of liberty from France Frederic Bastiat said "Trade barriers constitute isolation; isolation gives rise to hatred, hatred to war, and war to invasion." These words ring more true than ever as Russia invades Ukraine and the...
Against Public Interest, Supreme Court Protects Torture Cover-Up
by Jim Bovard | Mar 15, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Supreme Court declared last week that Americans have no right to learn the grisly details of CIA torture because the CIA has never formally confessed its crimes. The verdict symbolizes how the rule of law has become little more than a form of legal mumbo-jumbo to...
U.S. Ammo Sales Up 166% in the Two Weeks Following Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
by Sam Jacobs | Mar 11, 2022 | Foreign Policy
March 11th, 2022: On February 24, the Russian Federation launched air attacks on military installations and airports across the nation of Ukraine. This occurred shortly after the Russian President, Vladimir Putin, declared the separatist states of Donbas and Lugansk...
Rep. Massie Opposes House Res on Ukraine
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 11, 2022 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism









