While the benefits of trade liberalization in the postwar period have been abundant, readers may be surprised to learn how secondary (or even nonexistent) consideration of such possible benefits were to U.S. policymakers. Rather, trade liberalization following World...
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Seoul Needs to Divorce Washington
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Aug 3, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The bilateral military alliance between South Korea and the United States has become increasingly unproductive and needlessly perilous for both countries. Astute American analysts have argued for decades that the arrangement is not a good deal for the United States....
Our National Debt Isn’t Bad, It’s Worse
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 1, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
Those paying attention know the so-called “national debt” crossed the $30 trillion mark in late 2021 and has continued to steadily climb since. With trillion-dollar annual deficits having somehow been allowed to become the norm, less than two years later the number...
Boosted by COVID: The Improbable Rise of Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
by Jonathan Franklin | Jul 26, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sipped coffee inside the historic New Hampshire State House as he chit-chats with a gaggle of the state’s political leaders about the travails of being dad to seven children. Kennedy described his shock upon finding credit card receipts that...
Enemies Above: The FBI and the Creation of the Brown Scare Myth
by Brandan P. Buck | Jul 19, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History
"Today's threat to our national security is not a matter of military weapons alone. We know of new methods of attack. The Trojan Horse. The Fifth Column that betrays a nation unprepared for treachery." Such were the remarks from President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's...
US General Says Weapons Stockpiles ‘Dangerously Low,’ Calls for Production Boost
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 17, 2023 | News
As Washington ships billions of dollars in arms to Kiev, a General is warning that American weapons stockpiles are becoming dangerously low. The Defense Department official called for the weapons industry to increase production. General James Hecker issued the stark...
Defending the Defensible: Free Trade and Economic Liberalism
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jul 13, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In 1989, the economist John Williamson introduced the phrase “Washington Consensus” to the politico-economic lexicon. It was shorthand for a set of interrelated policies that, taken together, would free trade within states and between them while boosting overall...
North Korea Warns It May Shoot Down US Spy Planes
by Connor Freeman | Jul 10, 2023 | News
Pyongyang accused the US military of conducting provocative surveillance flights which infringe on its airspace and trespass in its exclusive economic zone on Monday. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) admonished Washington that if such provocations...
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Metal w/Kyle Matovcik
Kyle and I discuss music. Alp
Interview: A Rabbi, a Jewish Historian, and I Explain the Israel-Palestine Conflict
I was a guest alongside Rabbi Dovid Feldman and Dr. Zachary Foster to discuss the true nature of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Immigration Conversation with Jacob Hornberger
The Royal Navy Continues To Turn the Lights Out
The Royal Navy continues to become irrelevant with a bone in its teeth. The 2025 Strategic Defence Review (SDR) for the Royal Navy has been published and it is just as bad as you think it will be. Another buzzword salad buffet with zero calories and promises that will...
Anti-War Blog – Apparently, not evil. Just War.
In the past those of us distant from war could only see it in the print media and television. It was curated with the intent to gain sympathy, or conceal the brutality of those who we were supposed to be sympathetic for. As censored as it was at times graphic, though...
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In this special episode my wife joins me to discuss South African farm attacks and my son jumps on to discuss life as a young man trying to find his way. ALP
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