Since the October 7 attacks restarted conflict between Israel and Hamas, U.S. troops have been under fire all over the Middle East. Thus far, most attacks have been deflected with minimal damage, but it is only a matter of time before one gets through and causes a...
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Wilson’s Folly, the Washington Hegemon and Why There Is Still No Peace on Earth
by David Stockman | Jan 2, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Another Christmas and there is still no peace on earth. And the proximate cause of that vexing reality is the $1.3 trillion warfare state planted on the banks of the Potomac—along with its web of war-making capabilities, bases, alliances and vassals stretching to the...
The Christmas Truce of World War I
by Will Grigg | Dec 24, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Will Grigg
For a tragically short time, the Spirit of the Prince of Peace drowned out the murderous demands of the State. In August 1914, Europe's major powers threw themselves into war with gleeful abandon. Germany, a rising power with vast aspirations, plowed across Belgium,...
Taiwan’s Forthcoming Election Is Not An Independence Referendum
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Dec 21, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Talk the last few weeks in the corporate press about Taiwan is that the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has the coming January presidential election in the bag. They are probably right. The opposition parties, the Kuomintang (KMT) and smaller Taiwan People’s Party...
Do You Hear What I Hear? A Christmas Prayer for Peace
by Michael Granger | Dec 20, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
If you were to listen to the popular Bing Crosby version of the Christmas classic, "Do You Hear what I Hear?", you'd be forgiven for thinking the song is a simple diddy about the nativity of Christ, a very appropriate topic considering that this is what the holiday is...
They Always Kill Children
by Kym Robinson | Dec 20, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“Why is the World Silent?” - Chaim Kaplan Humanity has endured self-inflicted savagery for all its history. Modern civilizations have apparently transcended above the primal savagery of ancient barbarity, yet despite technology allowing us to peer in with a voyeur's...
What’s Happening in Myanmar?
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Dec 19, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In early November, Myanmar popped into the periphery of the corporate press, as a coalition of rebel ethnic paramilitary forces began overrunning military outposts and towns in the country’s north and west. With a series of coordinated rebel offenses continuing, two...
Truth is the Biggest Threat to DC ‘Democracy’
by Jim Bovard | Dec 18, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In Washington, truth is reckoned as the greatest enemy of democracy. Hard facts are deadly threats to a president’s prerogative to define reality and impose “the will of the people.” Early this year, Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard...