In an email to my father on July 18th, 2013 from my computer on Forward Operating Base Wolverine, I wrote, “This country is the hopeless dream of arrogant experts.” To this day, that line sums up my feelings about the entire war in Afghanistan. Now that the war is...
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US/Taiwan Relations Risk Nuclear War ft. Dave DeCamp and Connor Freeman Ep. 190
by Patrick Macfarlane | Nov 8, 2021 | Foreign Policy, Vital Dissent
https://youtu.be/PlFt42HCYAo Wondering what is going on with the US, Taiwan, and China? I asked two of my favorite foreign policy specialists to give us an overview of the basics of US/Taiwan relations and explain why it risks nuclear war with China. Dave DeCamp is...
Twenty Years of Tracking U.S. ‘Progress’ In Afghanistan
by Jim Bovard | Nov 8, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The 20-year U.S. war in Afghanistan ended with a bang in August as a terrorist attack killed a dozen Marines at the Kabul airport. For almost 20 years, The Future of Freedom Foundation has been one of the few organizations that stalwartly criticized the Afghanistan...
Joe Biden Approves $650 Million Missile Sale to Saudi Arabia
by Dave DeCamp | Nov 5, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Pentagon announced Thursday that the State Department approved a potential sale of missiles to Saudi Arabia worth about $650 million. The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said Saudi Arabia requested a purchase of 280 AIM-120C air-to-air missiles, 596...
Devil’s Advocate: How Turkey Is Seeking to Save Its Syrian Proxies
by Armen Tigranakert | Nov 3, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On July 28, the U.S. Treasury Department, vowing to keep pursuing accountability for perpetrators of human rights violations in the country, imposed sanctions on the Turkish-backed Ahrar Al-Sharqia, a faction in the Syrian Civil war, that committed the outrageous...
Never Forget the Propaganda: New 9/11 Documentaries Reinforce Old Narratives
by John Weeks | Nov 2, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There’s a moment in the documentary 9/11: Inside The President’s War Room in which former FBI agent James Kallstrom says, “It’s a day that 50 years from now our children will be taught about.” One can certainly imagine a future historian at the School of...
Taiwan Confirms Deployment of U.S. Troops to Their Island
by Dave DeCamp | Oct 28, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In an interview with CNN that aired Wednesday, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen confirmed reports that said US troops are in Taiwan training the island’s military. The confirmation is the first time since Washington severed diplomatic relations with Taipei in 1979...
The Hawks Are Encircling Iran…Again
by Connor Freeman | Oct 27, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Washington and Tel Aviv’s threats against Iran are rapidly proliferating. The Israelis reportedly just approved a $1.5 billion budget for a possible military attack on Iran. Israel’s Air Force is currently training “intensely” to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities....