Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered a partial mobilization that will call up 300,000 reservists and warned Western countries that Moscow would use nuclear weapons to defend its territory. The move marks Putin’s biggest escalation of his war in...
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Is Energy Independence from Russia Worth the Cost?
by Bas Spliet | Sep 19, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As the trade war over Ukraine heats up, we should ask ourselves what costs and benefits come along with energy independence from Russia. Even if we accept current Western policy, the divestment campaign will not yield the desired political outcomes. As episodic...
Chilean Lessons for the American People
by Jacob Hornberger | Sep 19, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In a nationwide vote, Chilean voters recently rejected a new constitution that was being proposed to them. The rejection was surprising because Chileans had previously voted in favor of having a new constitution to replace the constitution put into place by Chilean...
Military Leadership Has Lost Its Rightwing Congregation
by John Vaughn | Sep 16, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Last week, an open letter from every living former secretary of Defense (with the notable exception of Dick Cheney) and every living chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (with the less notable exception of H. Hugh Shelton) was published on the popular military...
The National Football League’s Manipulative Militarism
by John Weeks | Sep 15, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The National Football League (NFL) is a massive, capitalist endeavor. It provides wildly profitable entertainment, is adept at steering taxpayer money its way, and is a premier collaborator in our participatory fascist social order. Capitalist culture is relentlessly...
We Need More Giuliani Moments
by Connor Freeman | Sep 13, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
After 9/11, the principles in arch neocon Paul Wolfowitz’s notorious 1992 Defense Planning Guidance were embraced by the George W. Bush administration. Subsequently, throughout successive Democrat and Republican administrations, the warmongers running the National...
On 9/11, We Must Ignore the ‘Kooks’
by David Brady | Sep 13, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Mistrust of the government ought to be people's reasonable, default position. With such lies as Saddam Hussein manufacturing weapons of mass destruction or that Vladimir Putin put a bounty on our soldier's heads, it is no wonder that citizens began to think that 9/11...
Saad Hariri and the Collapse of Lebanon
by William Van Wagenen | Sep 12, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In 2005, U.S. neoconservatives centered around then-Vice President Dick Cheney’s office began collaborating with Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, defected former Syrian Vice President Abd Al-Halim Khaddam, and the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood to topple the Syrian...