As the sun sets on Joe Biden's presidency, the commander-in-chief and his top staffers are using their final moments in power to convince the American people that we live in a safer and more stable world. “The United States is winning the worldwide competition...
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The Houthis Are Challenging Washington’s Zones of Imperial Domination
by John Weeks | Jan 15, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Washington DC is an imperial city. It masks as Athenian democracy housed within Roman republicanism and underpinned by Judeo-Christian values. But behind the mask is a cold monster: the “interagency.” And the monster is committed to global domination. The imperial...
Tulsi Gabbard, For Better or For Worse
by James Rushmore | Jan 14, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
When President-elect Donald Trump first nominated former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii to serve as director of national intelligence (DNI) in his second administration, many critics of current U.S. foreign policy saw the selection as a step in the...
The Illusion of Wartime Prosperity
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jan 14, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
That war is of benefit to the business of voluntary exchange to mutual benefit is, as one of the last British bearers of the classical liberal flame, Norman Angell, remarked in 1909, the great illusion. Certainly there were some industries that gained, such as the...
The United States Always Knew NATO Expansion Would Lead to War
by Ted Snider | Jan 13, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The present severed from the past is easily misunderstood. In discussions of the Russia-Ukraine war, not enough is made of the historical fact that, at the end of the Cold War, the newly independent Ukraine promised not to join NATO, and NATO promised not to expand to...
Should Panama Be Afraid of Trump’s New Imperialism?
by Ted Snider | Jan 8, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has recently taken to calling the outgoing Prime Minister of Canada the “Governor…of the Great State of Canada.” In past days, he has gone beyond the jocular tone that some Canadian ministers have insisted he had, citing quite...
Israel’s Newfound ‘Freedom of Action’ Portends Regional War
by Connor Freeman | Jan 6, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Former ISIS deputy commander Abu Mohammed al-Julani and his rebranded Al Qaeda affiliate, Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), have sacked Damascus. Once again, as with the CIA’s brutal dirty war against the Syrian government under Barack Obama, Joe Biden’s regime has sided...
Drones Run Amok
by Laurie Calhoun | Dec 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Drones, drones, everywhere drones. For a few weeks, clusters of drones of unknown provenance were recently seen flying in the skies above New Jersey. Local, state, and federal authorities claimed that they did not know whose drones they were. The expression “baseless...