U.S. arms transfers have become a salient issue during the Biden administration given the Saudi‐led war in Yemen, the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and continued sales to risky neighbors. Over the past few weeks, the Biden administration has had to balance supporting...
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The Murder of Mahsa Amini, Iranians’ Quest for a Democratic State, and the Role of Outside Forces
by Muhammad Sahimi | Nov 7, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On September 13 Mahsa Amini (called Zhina by her own family), a 22-year-old woman from the Kurdistan province in western Iran, was in Tehran to visit her family and friends. She was detained by Iran’s “guidance patrol” (referred to as “morality police” in the Western...
Remembering Daniel Webster This Election Day
by Dan McKnight | Nov 7, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Tomorrow is Election Day. There’s going to be a lot of candidates and a lot parties on the ballot—Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, etc. Someday, when I enter the booth in my local polling station to pull that lever of democracy, I hope to see the words...
Biden Goes Begging for Saudi Barrels
by Jim Bovard | Nov 7, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Why don’t you talk about something that matters?” President Biden replied to a journalist asking about why he fist-bumped Saudi dictator Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) during his “begging for barrels” trip to the Middle East in July. Biden hoped the Saudis would rescue his...
Walking Wide Awake into World War III
by John Weeks | Nov 5, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Russian invasion of Ukraine, along with rising tensions between NATO and Russia, have drawn comparisons to the outbreak of World War I. In 2014, back when the open hostilities in Ukraine really began, the journalist Eric Margolis said "We can stumble into a war...
Libertarian Principles Perfectly Complement Clausewitz’s Theories of War
by Finn Andreen | Nov 2, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
The ongoing war in Ukraine has forced many Westerners to consider the realism of Carl von Clausewitz’s classic On War. The Prussian military theorist famously wrote that: “War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.” Though this...
The Pentagon Is Neither Woke Nor Based
by Laurie Calhoun | Nov 1, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The U.S. military has in recent times been making a big show of its “wokeness,” not only by changing the names of institutions to comply with the demands of race activists who wish to expunge from history all traces of the Confederacy, but also in its affirmation and...
Betrayal of the American Left
by Dan McKnight | Oct 31, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
I’m sure most of you remember the liberal protests against George Bush’s invasion of Iraq. They were big, they were loud, they were sometimes rude. And I can’t vouch for all of their hairstyle choices. But they were right. The invasion of Iraq was a criminal...