Armchair generals and warmongers often share a similar view when it comes to analyzing historical and contemporary events; if the military was not constrained, then victory would be assured. That is the language of mass murderers disguised beneath the need for...
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Collective Guilt is An Excuse for Mass Murder
by Kevin McKenzie | Nov 6, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
Let’s do a thought-experiment. We’ll start with a choose-your-own-adventure. Pick a mass-shooting event from recent U.S. history, but try to pick one where the shooter matches your personal demographics as closely as possible. As a white, male American of a similar...
TGIF: The Glorious Bourgeois Peace Movement
by Sheldon Richman | Nov 3, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Those of us whose pro-peace/antiwar principles are of the bourgeois classical-liberal variety need reminding now and again that we have a glorious tradition going back hundreds of years. We need not get lost in the dominant rhetoric that opposes war, empire, and its...
Volodymyr Zelensky Is in a Sea of Troubles
by Ted Snider | Nov 2, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is facing two troubles on the foreign front that have received a lot of media attention. The first is that his country is actually receiving much less media attention. For the past month, international attention has been drawn...
Depleted Citizenry Democracy
by Laurie Calhoun | Nov 1, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Joe Biden administration recently managed to persuade politicians and a number of outspoken pundits to applaud the provision of cluster bombs to the Ukrainian government for use on Ukrainian soil. One war crime leads to another, so perhaps no one should be...
War in the Disinformation Age
by Brad Pearce | Nov 1, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Public ignorance, disinformation, and propaganda have impacted society for all of history. People once thought the problem was lack of access to information—something now disproven in the internet age. Though government and media controlled narratives (often...
What the Heck is a ‘Scarborough Shoal’…?
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Oct 31, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
News from Southeast Asia this morning was that the Joe Biden administration was again rattling its saber over incidents between the Philippines and China in the South China Sea. At issue are some spits of sand thousands of miles from the United States. Just as a...
Netanyahu’s Support for Hamas Has Backfired
by Scott Horton and Connor Freeman | Oct 31, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Editor’s Note: This article was extended and updated on 11/10/23, including to reflect the latest tolls of death and destruction in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Intifada On October 7th, a large group of armed Hamas fighters broke out of the Gaza Strip to launch...