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Trying to Build Peace One BRICS At a Time
by Ted Snider | May 25, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In the early days of the war in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was open to negotiating a peace. The United States was not. State Department spokesman Ned Price explained, oddly, that the midst of a war is not the time for diplomacy. “This is not real...
Jack Teixeira, the Deep State, and ‘Captured Media’
by Thomas Eddlem | May 25, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Suspected Pentagon documents leaker Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Dighton, Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, allegedly released classified documents without permission about the sobering U.S. intelligence assessment of Ukraine's prospects in the Russo-Ukrainian War...
Biden’s Ukraine Failure Rivals Iraq and Afghanistan
by Ron Paul | May 24, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When the smoke finally clears, President Biden’s Ukraine debacle will go down—along with Afghanistan and Iraq—as one of the greatest foreign policy disasters in U.S. history. Hundreds of thousands have been killed on both sides in the service of the U.S. neocons’ long...
A Few Thousand Years of Chinese Foreign Policy (In a Nutshell)
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 23, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
An examination of Chinese foreign policy historically lends little support to those who depict China as secretly plotting to take over the world. Rather, it points to an entity preoccupied with managing its complex, local strategic environment and internal security...
Betting on Russian Submission? Don’t Roll Those Dice
by Derek Wheeler | May 23, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As we enjoy our lives within the neocon utopia that's been carefully crafted for us, let us set aside, for a moment, all basic morality and the natural rights of life, liberty, and property. Surely, if we put on the same hegemonic blinders worn by the likes of John...
The FBI Vetoed the 2016 Presidential Election
by Jim Bovard | May 17, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
On Monday, Special Counsel John Durham released his final report on the FBI and Justice Department's abuse of power during the 2016 presidential election. His 316-page report proves that federal law enforcement was weaponized to rig American politics by shielding...
Taking Notes Out of Rothbard’s Taiwan Playbook
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 16, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Writing pseudonymously in a series of articles for Faith and Freedom in the 1950s, Murray Rothbard took on the question of whether or not the United States should defend Formosa (Taiwan) from attack by mainland China. While his conclusions will surprise no one...









