On Sunday, Elon Musk posted on X: Those who know, please reply to this post listing all the evil things that NED has done. It’s a long list. https://t.co/8smJsP5Hji — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 2, 2025 After that merciless arm-twisting, I have no choice but to...
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Did Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan Just Leak?
by Ted Snider | Feb 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A leaked document has given us a first glimpse at President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Ukraine. According to the Ukrainian online newspaper Strana, U.S. officials handed the plan to European diplomats who then passed it on to Ukraine. The existence of the plan has...
‘Red Hand’ Revolt in Serbia: People Power or Color Revolution?
by Nebojsa Malic | Feb 3, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For six weeks now, Serbia has been rattled by what purports to be a student rebellion, leading to the prime minister’s resignation last week and rumors of a snap election. Students from sixty-three colleges of five state and two private universities, as well as four...
Political Instability Looms Amid Israel-Hamas Ceasefire
by José Niño | Feb 3, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On January 15, 2025, Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire agreement, bringing Israel’s punitive military campaign in the Gaza Strip to a temporary halt. While this agreement will allay tensions in the short-term, Israel will soon be confronted with tensions on...
TGIF: Birthright Citizenship and the Constitution
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 31, 2025 | Featured, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.... —U.S. Constitution, Amendment XIV Donald Trump says he wants a "revolution of common sense." If he means it, he will abandon his...
Senators Peddle Lies, Attacking Tulsi Gabbard for Supporting Snowden Pardon
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 31, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination as Director of National Intelligence is one of the more hopeful signs that President Donald Trump will make good on his pledge to be a peacemaker. While Gabbard is not a peacenik, she has fought against some of the worst abuses of the...
Dean Acheson’s Taiwan Dilemma
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jan 30, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
In the aftermath of World War II, U.S. policymakers felt they faced an increasingly dire situation in China. By late 1949, Mao Zedong’s Communist forces had decisively defeated Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists (Kuomintang/KMT), pushing them off the mainland to Taiwan....
Immigration Solutions Don’t Need to Be All or Nothing
by Brad Pearce | Jan 30, 2025 | Featured Articles
The border crisis and illegal immigration were one of the primary political issues which brought victory to the Republicans in the 2024 elections. While many opponents of immigration control are ideological and think having a border is somehow “fascist,” other...
Trump Freezes Foreign Aid Frauds
by Jim Bovard | Jan 29, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Donald Trump administration suspended top officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development earlier this week. The move, labeled a “Monday afternoon massacre,” was spurred by allegations that top USAID officials were circumventing President Trump’s ninety...
Trump vs Ukraine: The Coming Battle Over Conscription
by Ted Snider | Jan 29, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There may be a battle looming, not just between the United States and Ukraine over the conscription of men between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, but also within the Donald Trump administration. The call for Ukraine to cast a wider conscription net predates the...
The State is Nothing But Appetite
by Oscar Grau | Jan 28, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Be it the group that controls the state apparatus or the one that represents the institution of government, let us simply refer to the state. While the state cannot achieve everything, it can certainly achieve much, because the state is the monopoly of monopolies—the...
A Trump Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine?
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jan 28, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
One of the earliest points to become apparent about Donald Trump’s second term as president is that there is a significant difference in foreign policy priorities and a vast change in style from his predecessors over the past eight or nine decades. Blather about the...
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Trump Sends First Migrants to Detention Facility at Guantanamo Bay
The White House reported the transfer of detained illegal immigrants to a migrant detention facility in US-occupied Cuba. During the George W. Bush administration, the US opened a prison at Guantanamo Bay in an effort to deny the detainees’ Constitutional rights. The...
Zelensky Demands ‘Give Us Back Nuclear Arms’ or NATO Membership
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenksy said that his Western backers must give Ukraine NATO membership or nuclear weapons. In December, European officials discussed the idea of sending nuclear weapons to Ukraine with the Joe Biden administration. In an interview...
Trump Considering Sending 24,000 Rifles to Israel
President Donald Trump is mulling releasing an arms shipment of 24,000 rifles for the Israeli police. The Joe Biden administration withheld the transfer over concerns they would be used by violent Israeli settlers in the West Bank. A US official said on Friday that...
Trump’s Plan to ‘Clean Out’ Gaza Has Overwhelming Support With Israelis
A new poll conducted in Israel found widespread support for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza as proposed by President Donald Trump. A poll from the Jewish People Policy Institute Israel Index released Monday found that 80% of Jewish Israelis support Trump’s...
Palestinians Released Under Hostage Deal Report Torture in Israeli Captivity
Palestinians who have been released under a hostage exchange and ceasefire deal between Hamas and Tel Aviv reported being tortured by Israeli forces. In the days leading up to their release, Israeli soldiers delivered additional beatings. Under the hostage deal that...
Trump Envoy Travels to Venezuela, Returns With Six American Prisoners
President Donald Trump’s crisis envoy traveled to Venezuela on Friday and returned with a half-dozen American prisoners. Trump celebrated their return and said Caracas agreed to accept deportations from the US. “It is so good to have the Venezuela Hostages back home...
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Hegseth is Getting the Endorsements He Needs
The quality of our enemies defines us. The Center for American Prosperity (CAP) opposition makes me certain Pete Hegseth is the right man at the right time. The evil and execrable John Podesta runs CAP. That John Podesta. He replaced John Kerry as the Climate Envoy....
Optimism for the Future w/Scott Horton
Scott is back to discuss radio, releasing his book, Col Douglas McGregor, debating Wesley Clark, Syria, Hegseth, Trump, and Defend the Guard.
Get Your Kids Out of Government Schools
Israeli agents are censoring American students' textbooks. Because as we all know, the only real marginalized group is the Israeli regime.
The Carrier Cavalcade of Calamities Continues Part XVIII
Please note the highlights from the new report from CRS below on the Ford-class carrier fiasco speaks to "welding issues", call me Captain Obvious but in shipbuilding or the building of any exquisite platforms, the identification of welding issues infers a complete...
Trump & Hannity: Unveiling Foreign Policy Shifts – New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
In this episode of the Kyle Anone Show, we dive deep into Trump's recent interview with Sean Hannity, where he reveals his bold and controversial views on foreign policy. We’ll unpack the rhetoric surrounding Trump’s stance on Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran...
The Icebreaker Follies Continue to Break the Bank and Not Deliver
Aiviq The US has 1.5 icebreakers because it has had to cannibalize one of its ancient and sclerotic icebreakers to make the remaining heavy work.But for all this, the same Coast Guard bought the Aiviq for $125 million late last year. And don't expect them to get this...