Kiev. Sirens wail. I jump up in bed and try to shake my friend Alex awake. “Wake up! Air alert. Let’s get to the shelter! Hurry up!" He turns away. "Let me be! This shit alarm is constant." I dress hastily. He sighs, wearily grabs his cell phone and checks a warning...
Foreign Policy
Foreign Aid Doesn’t Need Oversight, It Needs To Be Abolished
by Laurence Vance | Mar 27, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In an interview with ABC News last month, after it was noted that U.S. aid to Ukraine now totals at least $113 billion, President Joe Biden was told that “many” Americans were asking, “How long can we spend like this?” His response was to first question the number of...
Was the Iraq War the Biggest Con of the 21st Century?
by Jim Bovard | Mar 23, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Iraq War was spawned by a deadly combination of political depravity and media complicity. Unfortunately, on the twentieth anniversary of the war, both elements of that conspiracy are being whitewashed. Instead, politicians and their pundit accomplices are...
Taiwan is Part of China Ep. 249
by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 22, 2023 | Foreign Policy, Uncategorized, Vital Dissent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_GLMSXqvto&feature=youtu.be Patrick discusses the US policy toward Taiwan in relation to China. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes:...
Arizona State Senate Passes ‘Defend the Guard Act’
by Michael Maharrey | Mar 22, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
[Yesterday], the Arizona Senate narrowly passed the Defend the Guard Act, a bill to require the governor to stop unconstitutional foreign combat deployments of the state’s National Guard troops. Passage into law would take a big step toward restoring the founders’...
Reapers and Red Lines: The Downing of an American Drone
by Ted Snider | Mar 22, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On March 14, A Russian jet collided with an American drone, leading to the downing of the drone in the Black Sea. The United States says that the drone was flying in international airspace when two Russian Su-27 fighter jets made nineteen high-speed passes near the...
This Women’s History Month, Celebrate the Resolve of Jeannette Rankin
by Derek Wheeler | Mar 20, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Do we have a shortage of female heroes in this country? Are virtuous women that scarce? Or is it simply that Women's History Month, by eliminating women from the conversation who don't fit the narrative of the State Department and the Pentagon, failed to achieve its...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
by Hunter DeRensis | Mar 18, 2023 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Politics
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...