Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall’s How to Run Wars: a Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite is a sharp, sardonic critique of America's perpetual engagement in wars abroad and the erosion of civil liberties at home. The book, newly published by...
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Joe Biden Wants To Steal Your Children
by Dan McKnight | Jun 24, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
I made the decision to join the United States Armed Forces twice in my life. First, in the early 1990s after school when I enlisted and trained as a U.S. Marine. Then, following the 9/11 attacks, I signed up for the Idaho National Guard and was later deployed to...
Are You a ‘Legitimate Target’?
by Kym Robinson | Jun 24, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In some troubled and dangerous parts of the world right now, any gathering of males inside a designated area could be deemed a legitimate target composed of "fighting age males" or "suspects." The fact that men, or boys for that matter, had come together is enough for...
A Critique of Practical Hasbara
by John Weeks | Jun 20, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Immanuel Kant published The Critique of Pure Reason in 1781. It was the same year the Rebel Alliance triumphed at Yorktown, Virginia. The victory at Yorktown made possible the decline of the British “liberal” empire and the eventual rise of Washinton DCs “non-empire”...
The Switzerland Summit: Peace Through Delusion
by Brad Pearce | Jun 19, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Ukraine has been at war for over ten years, and even the political establishment wipeout in the European elections has not managed to shock the Western ruling class back into coherence. Nothing could provide a clearer example of their clownish nature than the recent...
Sham-ocracy, Scam-ocracy
by Laurie Calhoun | Jun 17, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The word "democracy" is bandied about rhetorically by politicians on a regular basis to rationalize whatever it is that they want to do. This tendency has increased markedly in recent times as so-called wars of democracy and campaigns to save or preserve democracy are...
A Critique of Pure Hasbara
by John Weeks | Jun 13, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Hasbara is a central feature of genocidal Zionism: “Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has successfully created a new illogic of its own; an illogic that has made the illegal seem legal, the immoral appear moral and the undemocratic sound democratic. It has...
Joe Biden’s Time Interview Should Set Off Alarms
by Ted Snider | Jun 12, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On May 28, U.S. President Joe Biden gave an interview to Time. His delivery and content were concerning for a number of reasons. Biden, at times, seemed misinformed and detached from reality. Sometimes, he seemed off message; other times, he seemed convinced by his...