Last week The New York Times ran a shocking article claiming that the U.S. intelligence community believes the Ukrainian government to be responsible for the August attack that killed Darya Dugina, the daughter of a prominent Russian philosopher. Surely the...
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To Save the Republic, Abolish the Black Budget
by Laurie Calhoun | Oct 10, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
I have been puzzling over the ever-augmenting Black Budget since about the time the U.S. government began openly assassinating suspects, including U.S. citizens, without indictment, much less conviction in a court of law, for capital crimes. Tim Weiner’s...
On the Ground at DC’s Pro-Assange Protest
by Jim Bovard | Oct 10, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Saturday, protests supporting freedom for Julian Assange erupted around the world. In London, 7,000 protestors linked hands to surround the Parliament building, demanding that the United Kingdom not extradite Assange to the United States for a show trial. Protests...
Polish Government Requests American Nuclear Missiles to Be Stationed In-Country
by Dave DeCamp | Oct 7, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Polish President Andrzej Duda said in an interview published Wednesday that Poland is open to hosting US nuclear weapons and has approached Washington about the idea. Currently, NATO members Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey host US nuclear weapons...
What Tim Pool Should Know About Our Cold War With China
by Patrick MacFarlane and Will Porter | Oct 6, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since September 2020, several notable libertarians have established a rapport with political commentator, journalist, and YouTuber Tim Pool. These interactions have resulted in a string of appearances by prominent libertarians on Pool’s daily talk show, Timcast IRL....
We Have Just One Planet, Let’s Not Nuke It
by Kym Robinson | Oct 5, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”- President John F Kennedy There was a time when a lot of people feared nuclear war. The Cold War was a delicate...
A ‘Defend the Guard’ Explainer
by Michael Maharrey | Oct 5, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Presidential administrations come and go but the war machine churns relentlessly on. “Defend the Guard” legislation can throw a monkey wrench in its cogs. Defend the Guard is a state-level bill that would stop the deployment of a state’s National Guard units unless...
Zelensky: Peace Talks Are an ‘Impossibility’
by Dave DeCamp | Oct 5, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday signed a decree that ruled out any talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, declaring they would be an “impossibility.” The decree was first put forward by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine....