Berlin has backed off its plan to legally commit itself to meeting NATO’s two percent yearly military spending target, a government source told Reuters on Wednesday. Finance Minister Christian Lindner’s draft of a new budget financing law was passed by parliament...
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Biographies of Empire
by Kym Robinson | Aug 16, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Many books have been written about the rise and fall of great powers. Authors after the fact speculate on what went wrong and how the decline started, while those contemporary writers during the ascendance promise a future of brilliance and endless prosperity. For...
8/10/23 Ted Snider on the Polish-Belarussian Tension
by Scott Horton | Aug 12, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Ted Snider joined Scott on Antiwar Radio this week to talk about some concerning developments in Eastern Europe. They start with the tensions on the Polish-Belarus border where forces have been building up since Wagner forces moved in after the...
Exchanging the Rust Belt for Military Bases: Foreign Policy and Deindustrialization
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 9, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
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...
Implausible Deniability: The US Government Approach to Ukraine
by Laurie Calhoun | Aug 1, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power,” said U.S. president Joe Biden of Russian President Vladimir Putin on March 26, 2022, during a speech in Warsaw, Poland. On December 5, 2022, multiple unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs, or lethal drones) were used...
Trump: Russiagate was a ‘Coup,’ ‘Fueled War in Ukraine’
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 31, 2023 | News
In an op-ed published by Newsweek, former President Donald Trump said the Russiagate conspiracy was a coup attempt that led to the war in Ukraine. Trump warned the Russiaphopia hysteria created by the conspiracy theory could start World War Three. “An unelected cabal...
NYT: Biden Ramps Up Efforts to Forge Saudi-Israeli Normalization
by Connor Freeman | Jul 28, 2023 | News
The Joe Biden administration is redoubling its efforts in pursuit of a normalization deal between Tel Aviv and Riyadh, says New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. Significantly curtailing China’s influence in the Middle East is one of the White House’s main...
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...
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Tom Woods Speech: “The Ron Paulian Roots of MAGA (and What It Still Has to Learn)”
Institute senior fellow Tom Woods' speech at the recent Ron Paul Institute event. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-02TxeEEULQ
Vindication
Tom Woods interviews his old Harvard professor Vladimir Brovkin about US-Russia relations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRyRx8fA4yE
Thank You George Foreman
“Don’t do it son,” big George Foreman said as he shielded his commentary partners, Larry Merchant and Jim Lampley from violent rioters. The conclusion of the first Andrew Golota vs Riddick Bowe fight had ended in controversy which led to brawls and a ringside riot. It...
The Next Aircraft Debacle: The F47!
The Pentagon did not get the memo on the death of manned combat aircraft in the 21st century. Is the 47 designation the year the first aircraft may be aloft? Don't believe any promises on price or schedule much less efficacy. They will not deliver. China’s two...
Chasing Ghosts w/Bill Buppert
Bill Buppert of Chasing Ghosts joined me to discuss the modern warfare of politics. ALP
Propaganda and the State
Nicknamed “the father of public relations,” Edward Bernays (1891–1995) was a pioneer in the fields of propaganda and PR; this book is a great insight into the man behind the curtain. “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of...
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