Mike Maharrey explains how the United States government uses the pressure of the dollar as the world's reserve currency to get its way in foreign policy. One method is by forcing the global SWIFT payment system to lock out countries that don't want to play ball with...
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The Immense Potential of Liberty
In this essay I will piece together reflections on law, economics and meaning — specifically on how they connect in principle to structure healthy human organizations. While doing so I will interweave theoretical descriptions of how certain institutions and...
Veterans: Never Should Have Fought the Terror Wars
What a shame. You know, it didn't have to be this way at all. Forget stupid loser crank Al Gore winning instead. If Bush had only had anyone but Dick Cheney for VP and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz over at Defense, then Colin Powell would have been his man on foreign policy...
Was The Korean War A Just War?
American wars have a story and a legacy in popular culture. That legacy tends to color the way that we view the history and nature of those conflicts and those involved with and surrounding them. As America's first major conflict after World War II in the fight...
Antiwar.com: Now What?
Reprinted from Antiwar.com. The question, “Now what?” seems appropriate today. First of all, R.I.P. Justin Raimondo. As Tom Woods said, Justin was the soul of this site. Despite popular misunderstanding, he was not the editor or webmaster (that’s me, Jason Ditz and...
Soldiers Without Guns
https://youtu.be/ImwipiavM8k A new film by Will Watson, called Soldiers Without Guns, ought to shock a great many people — not because it utilizes a yet more gruesome form of violence or bizarre form of sex (the usual shockers in movie reviews), but because it...
Tulsi Gabbard’s Foreign Policy Answers From the First Debate
This Institute does not endorse political candidates. But we are interested in what candidate Gabbard has to say about the wars, and the rest of the Dems' reaction to her. Watch the 5 minutes that have people talking Tulsi! A soldier's truth about the establishment...
Candidate Trump Warned the Fed Had Inflated a Dangerous Bubble. He Was Right
Candidate Trump (2016): Count Donald Trump among the ranks of those who don’t think too much of the stock market as a sound place to put money. A day after making a widely watched public address on his economic plan, the Republican presidential nominee advised against...
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