Recently, The Wall Street Journal joined the flood of American mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, Politico and several others, in preparing the American public for a Russian victory. After nearly two years, over $113 billion of U.S. taxpayers’...
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Conversation on Israeli Genocide
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 9, 2024 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Justice
I discussed Israel's genocidal attack on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip with Saifedean Ammous. Listen here.
2024 Will Be the Year of ‘Defend the Guard’
by Pat McGeehan | Jan 8, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In 2015, the “Defend the Guard Act” was introduced in the West Virginia legislature, aiming to bring sanity to our nation’s foreign policy and the legal abuses foisted upon our servicemen within our state’s National Guard. This proposed law emerged from long forgotten...
TGIF: The Right to Move
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 5, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
If people individually own themselves and have a right to be free of aggressive force, then they have a right to change their location in ways consistent with other people's rights. Whether you call this moving around relocating, emigrating, or immigrating, doesn't...
Why Can’t the Neocons Leave Us Alone?
by Tom Woods | Jan 4, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
First of all, happy new year to all you good folks who enjoy reading what I write. Now, for the obvious: not every kind of email will float everyone's boat. Maybe today's won't do anything for you. But doggone it, I like it. John Podhoretz is editor of Commentary...
The Deadliest Premise
by Laurie Calhoun | Jan 3, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A new documentary film, Unknown: Killer Robots (2023), directed by Jesse Sweet and available on Netflix, addresses some of the perhaps surprising developments in artificial intelligence weaponry—above all, the specter of autonomous lethal aircraft systems programmed...
American Soldiers Are Being Put in Danger for Israel
by Brad Pearce | Jan 3, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
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...
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...