Ukrainian-born Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (1856-1927), whose pen name was Ahad Ha'Am (Hebrew for one of the people), was a proponent of Spiritual, or Cultural, Zionism, which made him a rival to Theodor Herzl and Political Zionism, the movement dedicated to creating a...
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Bad Advice: Ukraine Then and Now
by Ted Snider | Dec 14, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
David Arakhamiya’s recent interview enhances our understanding of the diplomatic course of the war in Ukraine in two crucial ways. Despite the political West’s insistence that Vladimir Putin had more expansive goals for invading Ukraine, Arakhamiya says that Moscow...
Yes, There Are Innocent Palestinians
by Trenton Hale | Dec 11, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Recently, conservative radio personality Mark Levin went to X to voice his opinion on the ongoing war in Gaza. He linked to an article written by D.W. Wilber, whose background is in U.S. intelligence. In the article, and repeated by Levin, Wilber claims, “So let’s get...
What Would Happen If the U.S. Stopped Supporting Ukraine?
by Connor O'Keeffe | Dec 7, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Over the weekend, border-policy negotiations between Senate Democrats and Republicans fell apart. The talks were meant to firm up Republican support for the president’s massive $105 billion military support proposal ahead of Wednesday’s vote by including additional...
U.S. Aid, Political Rights, and Civil Liberties in the Middle East and North Africa
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Dec 6, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The period 2003-2018 saw Washington annually spending hundreds of millions to tens of billions of dollars supporting regimes across the Middle East and North Africa. While some of the effects and outcomes of these “investments” are obvious, such as the lost wars in...
The Real Problem With Our Foreign Policy…
by Ron Paul | Dec 6, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Over the weekend Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin explained to the American people what’s really wrong with U.S. foreign policy. Some might find his conclusions surprising. The U.S. standing in the world is damaged not because we spent 20 years fighting an Afghan...
Kissinger and My Interstate 81 Epiphany
by Jim Bovard | Dec 5, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Henry Kissinger died last Wednesday. So far, I’ve been handling the grief pretty well. Kissinger was the most esteemed war criminal in American history. As Richard Nixon’s National Security Advisor, Kissinger summarized the president's order for bombing Cambodia:...
It’s Unanimous: Ukrainian Neutrality Could Have Brought Peace
by Ted Snider | Dec 5, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A leading Ukrainian politician said in a November 24 interview that as early as April 2022, Russia was “prepared to end the war if we agreed to...neutrality.” On June 13, 2022, when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that Russia and Ukraine had “reached an...