The historian Quinn Slobodian presents us in his article “Perfect Capitalism, Imperfect Humans: Race, Migration, and the Limits of Ludwig von Mises’s Globalism,” Contemporary European History (2018), with a surprising interpretation of Ludwig von Mises. According to...
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TGIF: U(nspeakably) S(adistic) Foreign Policy
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 12, 2021 | Economics, Foreign Policy, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
If you had set out to construct a foreign policy designed to impose indescribable suffering on millions of innocent people around the world, you'd have a tough time coming up with anything more systematic and effective than U.S. foreign policy. An inventory of U.S....
Iraq War II Reaches Maturity
by Dan Caldwell | Mar 11, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
This month, the Iraq war—in which I served as a U.S. Marine more than a decade ago—turns 18. As a result, soon there will likely be service members deploying to Iraq who were born after the war began in 2003. When they arrive, they will find the conflict remains a...
Congress Seeks to Block American Re-Entry to the Iran Deal
by Dave DeCamp | Mar 10, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
A group of 140 bipartisan members of the House is urging President Biden to seek a more “comprehensive” agreement with Iran, which means the group of lawmakers opposes a revival of the original 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA. In a letter sent to Secretary of...
Still Think the War on Terror Works?
by Scott Horton | Mar 4, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Scott Horton
On Thursday, February 25, the Joe Biden administration bombed Iraqi Shi’ite militias in Syria, killing between 1–22 depending on who’s doing the reporting. Why did Biden order this strike? On February 15, there was a rocket attack in Erbil, the capital city of...
How State Legislators Can Bring Our Troops Home
by Dan McKnight | Mar 3, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
In summer blockbusters and other entertainment, the United States Armed Forces are almost always portrayed through the lens of their most elite units, such as the Navy SEALS or the Army Rangers. But while the special forces are heroes in their own right, they’re not...
Why We Must Impeach Joe Biden
by Ron Paul | Mar 3, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Last Thursday President Biden continued what has sadly become a Washington tradition: bombing Syria. The President ordered a military strike near the Iraqi-Syrian border that killed at least 22 people. The Administration claims it struck an “Iranian-backed” militia in...
The Many Flaws of U.S. Nuclear Policy
by Ryan McMaken | Feb 26, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The threat of “nuclear proliferation” remains one of the great catch-all reasons—the other being “humanitarian” intervention—given for why the U.S. regime and its allies ought to be given unlimited power to invade foreign states and impose sanctions at any given time....









