Dinosaur GenXers like me recall that after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the foreign policy set was busy asking how the United States would cash its forthcoming "peace dividend," whether NATO would fold up shop having achieved its ostensible purpose, and maybe whether...
Political movements often begin as revolts against entrenched power, only to be absorbed by the very institutions they sought to challenge. The pattern is familiar in American political history. Grassroots insurgencies ignite public enthusiasm, mobilize voters around...
Marco Rubio did something unusual on Capitol Hill last Monday. He told the truth. Standing outside a classified Gang of Eight briefing on March 2, the Secretary of State explained to reporters exactly why the United States launched Operation Epic Fury four days...
In my lifetime I've seen a lot of betrayals come out of Washington DC. It may be the only net export of that city on the Potomac. But last week may prove to be the worst, and most devastating for our national health. A war powers resolution to end the war with...
On the surface, everything between Vietnam and the United States looked better than it ever had. In September 2023, President Joe Biden and General Secretary Nguyễn Phú Trọng signed a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, elevating relations to their highest diplomatic...
Unfortunately, President [Donald] Trump listened to the neocons and [Israeli Prime Minister] Benjamin Netanyahu instead of his MAGA base and other voices of caution as he launched a surprise attack on Iran over the weekend. For the second time in nine months, the U.S....
In his recent comments justifying a preventive war against Iran, President Donald Trump declared, "In 1983, Iran's proxies carried out the Marine barracks bombing in Beirut that killed 241 American military personnel." Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has invoked that...
Every time the usual suspects start ginning up regime change, be it propaganda, street protesters, arming rebels, or insane bombing campaigns such as the current one in Iran, we always hear about the poor oppressed masses yearning to breathe free. The truth, however,...
Co-founder of The Daily Wire Jeremy Boreing recently shared a clip of an interview he did in which he criticized Tucker Carlson and his foreign policy views: As Tucker's attacks on the Trump Administration and the traditional conservative base become more pronounced,...
In late February, longstanding tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan erupted into open conflict, marking one of the most severe escalations since the Taliban regained control of Kabul in 2021. What began as targeted Pakistani airstrikes against militant camps in...
Washington launched an illegal, undeclared war against Iran on the basis that it would be quick. It will not be quick. And the costs—in munitions, in lives, in the economic foundations of an entire region—are only beginning to arrive. Start with the constitutional...
Benjamin Franklin said it best: "There never was a good war, or a bad peace." Now that war is again underway—the third attack on Iran in two years—people of healthy human consciousness must pray that the destruction and carnage is limited. Yet the trajectory appears...
Iran has an “inalienable right” to enrich uranium for civilian use, Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, told the U.S. delegation with frustration in the final round of talks before the bombs started to fall on Iran. And the United States has an “inalienable...
When Donald Trump returned to the White House on January 20, 2025, voices suggested his administration might wind down the Ukraine conflict and pursue a foreign policy of restraint. The reality reveals something far different. Trump's outreach to Russia is not Pat...
In an interview with Sky News Arabia, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) supported Israel’s genocide in Gaza, comparing it to what the United States and its allies did to their enemies during World War II. “Just flatten it. We flattened Berlin. We flattened Tokyo," he...
On March 2, 1926, Murray Rothbard was born in the Bronx, New York, an only child of immigrant parents. His father worked as a chemist and his mother encouraged his voracious reading. Early interests in history and logic foreshadowed a career in which he relentlessly...
The United States and Israel have started an aggressive war against Iran, and Tehran has retaliated with strikes against Israel and American military bases in the Middle East. In a video posted to Truth Social early Saturday morning, President Donald Trump announced...
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts [tariffs] and Excises…. —U.S. Constituton, Article I, Section 8 Referring to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act...
