The state is a monster that eats itself, along with individuals within its domain, its spheres of influence, and beyond. Citizens typically don’t perceive this due to the crafty rhetoric generated by the state’s intellectuals. Sometimes the rhetorical machinery breaks...
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Attorneys Inside the Biden Administration Urge United States To Cut Off Israel
by Dave DeCamp | Apr 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A group of at least 90 lawyers, including 20 who work in the Biden administration, are urging President [Joe] Biden to cut off military aid to Israel because its slaughter in Gaza doesn’t comply with U.S. and international law. The attorneys will make their case in a...
TGIF: Spooner versus bin Laden
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 26, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
In his 2002 letter to America justifying the savage 9/11 attacks, al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden (himself killed in 2011) wrote after listing his grievances against the U.S. government: You may then dispute that all the above does not justify aggression against...
What Killed the Peace Talks in Ukraine?
by Ted Snider | Apr 25, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The accepted Western narrative is that, in February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine with the intent of conquering the entire country. But there is a competing narrative that is compelling enough to be worthy of consideration. Following the...
Cowardice, Not Courage, Led House Republicans to Side with the Democrats
by Connor O'Keeffe | Apr 25, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Over the weekend, the House of Representatives passed four foreign aid bills that will allocate a combined $95 billion to Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, and other “national security priorities.” House Republicans followed Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) lead and joined with...
April 20, 2024: Final Nail in America’s Coffin?
by Ron Paul | Apr 24, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When future historians go searching for the final nail in the U.S. coffin, they may well settle on the date April 20, 2024. On that day Congress passed legislation to fund two and a half wars, hand what’s left of our privacy over to the CIA and NSA, and give the U.S....
Neocon Control is Slipping Away
by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. | Apr 23, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Quite a bizarre sight in the U.S. House the other day: Hundreds of Democrats waved the Ukrainian flag and chanted the name of a foreign nation as they voted to send still another enormous "aid package" to anyone on earth other than Americans. Now I expect this kind of...
Senator Bob Graham, 9/11, and the Mirage of American Democracy
by Jim Bovard | Apr 22, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Former Senator Bob Graham passed away on April 16 at the age of 87. Graham had been one of the most outspoken opponents of the Iraq War, but his brightest legacy was his perennial fight against the George W. Bush administration’s cover-up of the 9/11 attacks. Graham...