Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader the Wagner group, has ended his siege of the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don and turned around his march on Moscow. It is not clear what happened nor what was staged and what was real. Each expert and commentator offers a different expert...
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An Archaeology of Nineteenth Century American Expansion
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 27, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Last week, context was added to Murray Rothbard’s assertion in Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy that American foreign policy underwent an abrupt shift during the second Cleveland administration (1893-1897). I argued that American foreign policy from...
TGIF: Foreign Policy Matters
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 23, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
In an extra special way, foreign policy matters crucially to champions of individual liberty. Not that it doesn't matter to other people too -- just not in all the same ways. Anyone who understands the importance of keeping government power strictly limited in...
Is Putin Bluffing on Redlines? Ask Putin
by Ted Snider | Jun 22, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On June 13, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with war correspondents and military bloggers for a question and answer session at the Kremlin. One war correspondent asked Putin “a question about the notorious red lines.” Addressing Putin, he said, “Clearly...we are...
In Search of a New Abroad: Contextualizing Developments in U.S. Foreign Policy in the Late 19th Century
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 20, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Was America Destined to be an Empire? While Murray Rothbard is correct in Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy that “the great turning point of American foreign policy came in the early 1890s, during the second Cleveland administration,” this needs...
Our Country Desperately Needs a Peace President
by Ron Paul | Jun 20, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Most people agree that we are closer to nuclear war than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Some would even argue that we are closer now than we were in those fateful days, when Soviet missiles in Cuba almost triggered a nuclear war between the U.S. and...
Daniel Ellsberg’s Courageous Work Remains Unfinished
by Jim Bovard | Jun 19, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
What if truth doesn’t win out until a million corpses too late? Daniel Ellsberg, one of the most heroic truth-tellers of our era, passed away on Friday at the age of 92. He risked life in prison to leak the Pentagon Papers during the Nixon administration. Ellsberg...
By Gambling on Deterrence, Washington Must Prepare for Failure in the Pacific
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jun 19, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
It has become increasingly apparent that any notion of U.S. “strategic ambiguity” with respect to Taiwan is dead. Both the Joe Biden administration’s rhetoric and U.S. military deployments in the western Pacific indicate that the United States will come to Taiwan’s...