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...
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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...
Israel Fostered the Rise of Hamas, Even After It Turned to Terrorism
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Oct 11, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In the aftermath of Saturday’s terrorist and military attacks on Israel by the Palestinian group Hamas, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared, “The forces of civilization must support Israel in defeating Hamas…In fighting Hamas, Israel is not only fighting for...
Watching Us vs. Them Through a Digital Keyhole
by Kym Robinson | Oct 10, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“Soldier and civilian, they died in their tens of thousands because death had been concocted for them, morality hitched like a halter round the warhorse so that we could talk about 'target-rich environments' and 'collateral damage'—that most infantile of attempts to...
The Chinese are Reclaiming Pandas from American Zoos. Let Them.
by Benjamin Seevers | Oct 10, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There are thousands of religions across the world and countless more personal creeds. 195 different countries dispense legal codes and many more nations and stateless peoples govern their own affairs according to their non-governmental customs and norms. Despite this,...
War Guilt in the Middle East
by Murray N. Rothbard | Oct 9, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
This article was originally featured in Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought, Spring-Autumn 1967 and is republished with permission of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. The trouble with sectarians, whether they be libertarians, Marxists, or...
U.S. Officials Expect an Israeli Invasion of Gaza
by Dave DeCamp | Oct 9, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
U.S. officials said Sunday that they expect Israel to launch a ground invasion of Gaza within the next 24-48 hours after the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu formally declared it was at war with Hamas, The Washington Post reported on Sunday. A spokesman...