“Why is the World Silent?” - Chaim Kaplan Humanity has endured self-inflicted savagery for all its history. Modern civilizations have apparently transcended above the primal savagery of ancient barbarity, yet despite technology allowing us to peer in with a voyeur's...
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What’s Happening in Myanmar?
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Dec 19, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In early November, Myanmar popped into the periphery of the corporate press, as a coalition of rebel ethnic paramilitary forces began overrunning military outposts and towns in the country’s north and west. With a series of coordinated rebel offenses continuing, two...
Truth is the Biggest Threat to DC ‘Democracy’
by Jim Bovard | Dec 18, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In Washington, truth is reckoned as the greatest enemy of democracy. Hard facts are deadly threats to a president’s prerogative to define reality and impose “the will of the people.” Early this year, Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guard...
TGIF: Ahad Ha’Am’s Prophetic Warning about Political Zionism
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 15, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Ukrainian-born Asher Zvi Hirsch Ginsberg (1856-1927), whose pen name was Ahad Ha'Am (Hebrew for one of the people), was a proponent of Spiritual, or Cultural, Zionism, which made him a rival to Theodor Herzl and Political Zionism, the movement dedicated to creating a...
Bad Advice: Ukraine Then and Now
by Ted Snider | Dec 14, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
David Arakhamiya’s recent interview enhances our understanding of the diplomatic course of the war in Ukraine in two crucial ways. Despite the political West’s insistence that Vladimir Putin had more expansive goals for invading Ukraine, Arakhamiya says that Moscow...
Yes, There Are Innocent Palestinians
by Trenton Hale | Dec 11, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Recently, conservative radio personality Mark Levin went to X to voice his opinion on the ongoing war in Gaza. He linked to an article written by D.W. Wilber, whose background is in U.S. intelligence. In the article, and repeated by Levin, Wilber claims, “So let’s get...
What Would Happen If the U.S. Stopped Supporting Ukraine?
by Connor O'Keeffe | Dec 7, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Over the weekend, border-policy negotiations between Senate Democrats and Republicans fell apart. The talks were meant to firm up Republican support for the president’s massive $105 billion military support proposal ahead of Wednesday’s vote by including additional...
U.S. Aid, Political Rights, and Civil Liberties in the Middle East and North Africa
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Dec 6, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The period 2003-2018 saw Washington annually spending hundreds of millions to tens of billions of dollars supporting regimes across the Middle East and North Africa. While some of the effects and outcomes of these “investments” are obvious, such as the lost wars in...