With Taiwan’s presidential election now concluded, and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate William Lai Ching-te having won a plurality due to the failure of the major opposition parties (the KMT and TPP) to combine behind one candidate, tensions in East...
Foreign Policy
Biden Lied, Now People Will Die
by Dan McKnight | Jan 16, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Sometimes when you’re celebrating a victory you get a big reminder of why that victory matters. As you should all know, last week the New Hampshire House of Representatives passed the Defend the Guard Act, which would keep their National Guard units out of overseas...
The Martin Luther King Jr. Speech You Need to Hear Today
by Libertarian Institute | Jan 15, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
TGIF: Smells like Genocide
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 12, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
If it looks like genocide, sounds like genocide, and smells like genocide, chances are it's genocide. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will rule provisionally on whether that is what Israel is committing against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. The...
Imperialists Will Always Double Down
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jan 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
While one could choose many appropriate representatives of the quotidian inanity of U.S. foreign policy—the deleterious consequences of which somehow never do anything to dent the authors’ respective career prospects—one could find many equal to but none better than...
Wall Street Journal Sets Standard for Irresponsible Journalism in Ukraine
by Ted Snider | Jan 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Recently, The Wall Street Journal joined the flood of American mainstream media outlets, including The New York Times, Politico and several others, in preparing the American public for a Russian victory. After nearly two years, over $113 billion of U.S. taxpayers’...
Conversation on Israeli Genocide
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 9, 2024 | Blog, Foreign Policy, Justice
I discussed Israel's genocidal attack on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip with Saifedean Ammous. Listen here.
2024 Will Be the Year of ‘Defend the Guard’
by Pat McGeehan | Jan 8, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In 2015, the “Defend the Guard Act” was introduced in the West Virginia legislature, aiming to bring sanity to our nation’s foreign policy and the legal abuses foisted upon our servicemen within our state’s National Guard. This proposed law emerged from long forgotten...