Gen. Mark Milley retired on Friday [September 29] as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and handed over command to Air Force chief Gen. Charles Q. Brown. In 2019, Milley took up the post after being nominated by President Donald Trump. He oversaw massive...
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Rage and the Meme Effect
by Kym Robinson | Oct 18, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“People shouldn’t expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the ‘fringe’ media.”- Ted Koppel It’s called the fog of war for a reason, and yet it is with viciousness, fortified by bias and outrage, that we witness a certain eagerness to...
U.S. Breaks Its Deal with Iran…Again
by Ted Snider | Oct 18, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Building on its reputation as an unreliable diplomatic partner, the United States announced on October 12 that it was pulling out of the deal that would have granted Iran access to $6 billion of its money in exchange for the release of five American prisoners. This...
On Ethnic Cleansing, Washington DC Has Always Been the Hypocrite
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Oct 17, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
U.S. administrations have repeatedly condemned foreign adversaries for engaging in ethnic cleansing of minority populations. That has been an explicit grievance against the People’s Republic of China (PRC) because of Beijing’s treatment of its Uygur population in...
Lessons in Atrocity Propaganda
by Patrick Macfarlane | Oct 16, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
It has been a little over a week since Hamas attacked Israel. In that week, we have learned more of what 5th Generation Warfare looks and feels like in the context of actual battles taking place in a geographic theater of war. Although the Israel-Palestine conflict...
Selling Your Soul, And Your Country
by Dan McKnight | Oct 16, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
What is treason? The U.S. Constitution defines “Treason against the United States” as “only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” “Enemies” is a high bar, and ought to be—the penalty for treason is death, after...
It’s All About Provoking Your Reaction
by Scott Horton | Oct 12, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
So wise up! With terrorism, as with all asymmetric political action, "the action is in the reaction of the opposition," as Saul Alinsky, the leftist activist, put it in his book Rules for Radicals. This isn't conspiracy stuff, nor impossible "4th dimensional...
Putin’s Valdai Speech, What You Need to Know
by Ted Snider | Oct 12, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On October 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the plenary session of the Valdai International Discussion Club near Sochi, Russia. The session was attended by scholars and diplomats from forty-two countries. Putin spoke for half an hour and then answered...