Since the middle of March, the United States has launched extensive air and naval strikes targeting Houthi installations across Yemen. These strikes killed at least 53 people, including Houthi leaders, and injured many others. The strikes were ostensibly aimed at...
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A Dangerous Circle: How the CCP Uses Israel and Saudi Arabia to Infiltrate America
by Matt Wolfson | Apr 2, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In a recent report for the Libertarian Institute, I traced connections between the American and Saudi players rebuilding Gaza into a surveillance city-state—and building Saudi surveillance cities whose offshoots are finding their ways to America. Digging deeper into...
Got Immigration Problems? Fix Foreign Policy First
by Lora Karch | Apr 2, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As Syria begins to collapse into another civil war, western nations brace for the inevitable surge of Syrian refugees to their borders. Amid a national immigration crisis, America should consider how its own foreign policy perpetuates this problem. Over 1,500 people...
How Trump Greenlighted the Resumption of Israel’s Gaza Genocide
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Mar 27, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Israel resumed its genocidal military operation in the Gaza Strip early on Tuesday, March 18 with a massive overnight bombardment that killed 404 Palestinians before midday, including 263 women and children, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. Among the dead...
Israel’s Minions Smeared an American Hero
by John Weeks | Mar 27, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
American libertarians, regardless of their preferred faction, understand the state is a monster. We view the state the way Karl Marx viewed capitalism (demonic) or William Lloyd Garrison viewed slavery (cannibalistic). Sadly, American libertarians live under the most...
Even Realists Overstate the ‘China Threat’
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Mar 26, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Perusing the most recent edition of Foreign Affairs, which was typically dreadful, one piece caught my eye. In “The Taiwan Fixation,” Stephen Wertheim and Jennifer Kavanagh argued that a full-scale U.S. military intervention over Taiwan would be catastrophic, and that...
Mahmoud Khalil and the Battle of Technocrats vs. Activists
by Matt Wolfson | Mar 25, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The arrest of Mahmoud Khalil is one of those events that can divide a room, or an X space, just by being referenced. The facts are deceptively simple. A Palestinian student at an Ivy League University on a foreign visa who organized protests at which some participants...
Chronicle of An Unnecessary War: How the West Provoked Russia and Squandered Peace
by Michael Holmes | Mar 24, 2025 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Scott Horton’s 900-page masterpiece, Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, is a hugely important work that meticulously documents how three decades of Western encirclement provoked Russia’s invasion of Ukraine....