The commitment of Washington’s European allies to democracy is increasingly fragile, if not hypocritical, as Vice President J D Vance highlighted in his speech to the Munich Security Conference last month. That problem is most acute in Romania. In the first round of...
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Israel’s Lobby Launches Preemptive War on Thomas Massie
by James Rushmore | Mar 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Two weeks ago, Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell announced that he would not seek re-election in 2026. McConnell’s announcement prompted Congressman Thomas Massie to share a poll asking his Twitter followers if he should run for McConnell’s open Senate seat, seek the...
The Mass Expulsion of Palestinians Will Not Be a ‘Cake Walk’
by José Niño | Mar 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Contrary to what Donald Trump thinks, removing Palestinians from Gaza will not be an easy task. The United States president shocked the world when he called for the mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza during a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
Let’s Not “Run after a Share in the Trouble”
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 3, 2025 | Blog, Economics, Foreign Policy
Of course “principles,” phrases, and catch-words are always invented to bolster up any policy which anybody wants to recommend. So in this case. The people who have led us on to shut ourselves in, and who now want us to break out, warn us against the terrors of...
Surveillance City-State: A Plan for Gaza’s Future
by Matt Wolfson | Feb 27, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
President Donald Trump’s proposal for razing and rebuilding Gaza is being hailed by some America First conservatives as another in a line of bold moves which benefit our country, like incorporating Greenland and restoring the Panama Canal. To them, the proposal...
Russia and the United States Come Together at the United Nations
by Brad Pearce | Feb 26, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Monday, February 24, the third anniversary of what the media calls “Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine,” the United States shocked the world by voting against Ukraine’s United Nation’s resolution condemning the Russian invasion, which reiterated the same...
‘Satanic Reason’
by John Weeks | Feb 26, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The central character Satan in John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost has been interpreted as closely aligned with the complexities of the human faculty of reason. The link between Satan and rational cognition was demonstrated in Lucifer and Prometheus, by R.J. Zwi...
Trump vs Zelensky: Fact Checking the Ukraine War
by Ted Snider | Feb 25, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There may come a day when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky regrets taking the bait and, at what may be the conclusion of three years of fighting Russia, being drawn into a verbal war with U.S. President Donald Trump. Over the last few days, Trump has called...