Along the road to liberty I passed many stations of tyranny. Like almost everyone else, I wasn’t born a libertarian but shopped around many ideologies until I stumbled across the beautiful universal and simple ideas of voluntary interaction. The worst of those...
Foreign Policy
Top Iraqi Cleric Rejects Trump’s Talk of US Base to ‘Watch Iran’
Iraq’s most senior religious leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, rarely interjects himself into politics. US officials have long tried to stay on Sistani’s good side anyhow, fearing that his opposition could up-end the entire military presence there. President...
Trump Is Right, It’s Time to End the Afghan War
Read the original at Breitbart.com. President Trump’s decision to withdraw 7,000 troops from Afghanistan, possibly leading to a complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from that country in the near term, is correct. The Taliban insurgency there has already replaced the...
Iraq Redux: Trump’s Venezuela ‘Regime Change’ Another Pack of Lies
It has been just over a week since I last wrote to you, at the time just before Trump's Venezuela regime change operation hit the mainstream media. I warned that his recognition of an unelected politician as president and his dedication to install that politician with...
Humanitarian Interventions Are Killing National Sovereignty — And That’s a Bad Thing
ince the 1990s, it has become increasingly popular for the United States and other Western nation-states to justify new wars on the basis of "humanitarianism." This was the case in Somalia in 1993, in the former Yugoslavia in the mid 1990s, and in Libya in 2011....
The Syrian Smokescreen
In recent weeks, Trump announced the “withdrawal” of U.S. forces from Syria, as well as the withdrawal of 7,000 troops from Afghanistan. Although Trump had in the past taken actions against the Syrian state, for instance launching Tomahawks at the Shayrat Airbase in...
Trump’s Venezuela Fiasco
Last week President Trump announced that the United States would no longer recognize Nicholas Maduro as president of Venezuela and would recognize the head of its national assembly, Jose Guaido, as president instead. US thus openly backs regime change. But what has...
Venezuela Needs to Sort Itself without American Intervention
Venezuela has hit the news again after the Trump Administration announced support for the opposition. This decision has caused conflict not only with Maduro, but also with the Russian government for the United States. This is because Russia has secure financial...
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