“War,” Randolph Bourne wrote, is “the health of the state.” But war is also, it has recently and quietly become clear, the cheapest and quickest antidote when the state gets sick. This antidote, in fact, represents the most significant part of President Donald Trump’s...
At first glance, Washington’s informal but very real commitment to defend Taiwan and preserve its de facto independence seems quite secure. Over the past decade, Taipei’s security relationship with the United States grew steadily closer—with strong bipartisan approval...
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) launched a civilian aid boat to the besieged Gaza Strip on Sunday. The Handala departed Syracuse, Italy, with a crew comprised of volunteer medics, lawyers, journalists, and activists.
Discussion of American foreign policy is an endless string of talking heads and think tank hacks claiming that we “must” do this or that, for reasons such as global security, values, or credibility. With a little bit of knowledge, it is apparent that the foreign...
In a viral interview in May, Piers Morgan spoke with Tzipi Hotovely, the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom. In a highly revealing exchange, Morgan asked Hotovely if she knew how many children Israel had killed over the course of its genocidal war in the Gaza...
In 2009, I was working part time in talk radio in Charleston, South Carolina as an on-air personality. I was also the token conservative columnist for the local, liberal free weekly paper. I wasn’t making a lot of money, but I was working in the field I was most...
When asked about the cost of their government’s support of the State of Israel, some Americans will say it’s $3.8 billion a year—the amount of annual military aid the United States is committed to under its current, 10-year “memorandum of understanding” with Israel....
Editor's note: This article is taken from Libertarian Institute Managing Editor Keith Knight's opening statement from a June 28 debate on Zerohedge with Mike Benz and Cenk Uygur. When I say American foreign aid, I am generally referring to resources given or lent by...
