In the words of Justin Raimondo, from his 2011 article, “How decision-makers react to events beyond our borders is decisively shaped by domestic political considerations.” This theory of foreign relations, libertarian realism, eschews the typical narrative of...
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The U.S. is Being Accused of Three Coups
by Ted Snider | Aug 28, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The United States has a long legacy of coups. During the Cold War, Washington participated in no less than sixty-four covert coups. They did not end with the Cold War. Since then, the U.S. has carried out or facilitated several coups, including in Haiti, Venezuela,...
Condoleezza Rice Won’t Learn
by James Wile | Aug 27, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Condoleezza Rice recently wrote an article entitled “The Perils of Isolationism” in Foreign Affairs giving her thoughts on the United States’ place in the modern world. As the title implies, the article’s main theme is her fear that the United States will abandon its...
How Taiwan Became an Issue
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 22, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Given that official Washington seems increasingly determined to fight Beijing over Taiwan, concerned Americans are right to wonder: how did the question of Taiwan come to be of such purported importance to these global powers? While several closer islands, such as the...
The Veteran Cry
by Kym Robinson | Aug 22, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Usually boys and men, that’s who is required to make war, to kill, maim, kidnap, torture and destroy. And in turn they can be killed, maimed, kidnapped, tortured, and destroyed even after they return, though they never really do. They are required to make the wars...
The Cost of Kursk
by Ted Snider | Aug 21, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The bold and surprising incursion across the border into the Kursk region of Russia has won Ukraine the temporary possession of several Russian villages and a few hundred square miles of Russian territory. But the strategically cheap Russian land may have been bought...
U.S.-Zionist Imperialism and the Middle East
by Oscar Grau | Aug 20, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A rich country leads the receiving end of U.S. foreign aid, including help for waging wars in the Middle East. This is the case of Israel, whose illegitimate origin is today considered throughout the world as the clearest of all states. Even a large part of the...
A State Made Hell
by John Weeks | Aug 19, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The limited television series thriller (and Zionist propaganda) The Patient evokes the hell that was the Nazi killing center Auschwitz with a direct reference to Victor Frankl’s memoir, Man’s Search for Meaning: “I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the...