We’re witnessing a fascinating thing: Congress is actually debating and voting on something. Remarkable! For the first time in a century—and only the second time since the Civil War—the vote for the next Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives has entered...
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Jim Bovard’s Best Digs of 2022
by Jim Bovard | Jan 5, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics
This past year served up endless opportunities for hounding and pounding politicians and federal agencies. Here’s a round-up of the most liked or most hated lines from my 2022 articles. Hearty thanks to Hunter DeRensis and editors at other outlets who ran these...
Stop Confusing Globalization With Globalism
by Connor O'Keeffe | Jan 5, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
After the 2008 financial crisis, calls rang out across establishment publications and the executive offices of Wall Street that we were witnessing the death of globalization. The calls grew louder and more numerous after Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, the...
12/30/22 Ted Galen Carpenter on the Arrogance Behind Washington’s Foreign Policy
by Scott Horton | Jan 2, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott talks with Cato Senior Fellow Ted Galen Carpenter about American interventions in Ukraine and Syria. They dig into the likeliest escalation scenarios in Ukraine and imagine how both sides would react to defeat. That leads to a discussion...
COI #367: With the Iran Deal Dead, Israel Prepares for War
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 29, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #367, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman recap the disastrous foreign policy developments of the year, focusing on escalations with Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea, as well as the catastrophic trajectory of the Pentagon’s so-called “Great Power Competition.”...
What Do Think Tanks Think? Proximity to Power and Foreign Policy Preferences
by Max Abrahms and Richard Hanania | Dec 28, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
This paper was originally published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Studies Association and is reprinted with permission of author. Through the use of survey methods, the study presents the first systematic comparison of America-based...
12/22/22 Connor Freeman: Biden Escalates Toward War With Russia
by Scott Horton | Dec 24, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott’s first guest on Antiwar Radio this week was Connor Freeman, the Assistant Editor at the Libertarian Institute. They talk about the Ukrainian strikes deep in Russian territory, and the apparent green light Washington gave Kyiv to carry out...
Capitol Hill Retreat: Strategy After Yemen Resolution Failure
by Dan McKnight | Dec 20, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
What was widely expected to happen, did happen. Last Tuesday, under pressure from the Biden White House, Senator Bernie Sanders formally withdrew his War Powers resolution to end U.S. participation in the war on Yemen. American logistical support for the Saudi...
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New Ships for an Impossible Mission: The Marines Stumble Again
Yesterday I discussed the reasons why we need to dismantle and close down the United States Marine Corps. One of those reasons is the Light Amphibious Warship (now called the Landing Ship, Medium, LSM), a small landing ship which would ferry small Marine units...
Biden’s Middle East Legacy: Reality or Illusion? New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
In this episode of the Kyle Anone Show, we unpack the narratives being crafted by officials in the waning days of the Biden administration. Jade Sullivan's recent interview with Ian Bremmer reveals surprising developments in the Middle East that have shaped our...
Competition Is Cooperation
"The pricing process is a social process. It is consummated by an interaction of all members of the society. All collaborate and cooperate, each in the particular role he has chosen for himself in the framework of the division of labor. Competing in cooperation and...
Anti-War Blog – “The world is so beautiful. Let me leave calmly…”
“That's it, mum, goodbye,” he is dying, dead, a Ukrainian soldier in his last moments caught on helmet camera makes his peace. The eight minutes leading up to his death have been shared on social media, a close combat struggle between him and his Russian counterpart....
Crucial Economic Calculation
"The advocates of totalitarianism consider 'capitalism' a ghastly evil, an awful illness that came upon mankind. In the eyes of Marx it was an inevitable stage of mankind’s evolution, but for all that the worst of evils; fortunately salvation is imminent and will free...
If You Read One Book This Year
Knowledge and Decisions by Thomas Sowell This new year, please take the time to read this book, one of the most important books for my thinking in my lifetime. It speaks to my observation on war being a collision of complex adaptive systems informed by “institutional...
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