Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Secretary of State Antony Blinken that no deal the US makes with Iran would prevent Israel from attacking the country over its nuclear program, according to Haaretz.
by Connor Freeman | Jun 8, 2023 | News
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Secretary of State Antony Blinken that no deal the US makes with Iran would prevent Israel from attacking the country over its nuclear program, according to Haaretz.
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jun 8, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In his June 6 New York Times column commemorating the 79th anniversary of the D-Day landing, Paul Krugman manages to regurgitate nearly every self-serving Western cliché about World War II. According to Krugman, “World War II was one of the few wars that was clearly a...
by Laurence Vance | Jun 7, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The remains of an American soldier were laid to rest on Memorial Day at the Andersonville National Cemetery in Georgia after a police car with lights flashing escorted the casket to the cemetery. What made this funeral service so unique and so tragic is that...
by Zack Sorenson | Jun 5, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
When I first learned the basics of libertarianism and Austrian economic theory, I knew that these provided a more practical, moral, and satisfactory answer to major political and economic questions than any other ideology. For example, the premise of profitability in...
by Benjamin Seevers | Jun 2, 2023 | Blog, Libertarianism
My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...
by Connor Freeman | May 31, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The top U.S. general reaffirmed that Kiev has long been asked not to use military equipment provided by Washington to conduct attacks against Russian territory, according to Reuters. This policy is necessary because such attacks could provoke a direct clash between...
by Benjamin Seevers | May 29, 2023 | Featured Articles
Memorial Day brings together people from all political persuasions in remembrance and celebration of dead American soldiers. Libertarians, however, should reject a holiday that consecrates and immortalizes the names and lives of those who sacrificed themselves in...
by Kyle Anzalone | May 19, 2023 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #423, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover the Empire’s major escalations this week against Palestine, Syria, Iran, Russia, and freedom of the press in the United States. Kyle breaks down Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s Orwellian announcement that...
Alright, you caught me red handed! I missed last week's email. I did, however, spend a solid hour, hour and a half, writing an article about how the film The Prince of Egypt framed 90s kids' first impressions of Israel. But I very quickly realized the topic was too...
The headlines move fast, but the stakes underneath them move faster. When political leaders say the Strait of Hormuz is “open” and diplomacy is “wrapping up,” we slow the tape and ask the only question that matters: who actually has leverage right now, and what price...
War is content, at least for those who are far from the explosions, acrid smoke and mourning parents. To those closer to the destruction and loss, it’s very real and inescapable. For most of us, the privileged, we peer into it whenever we dare, or should it come...
A ceasefire can be the start of peace, or it can be the quiet moment when both sides reload. That’s the question driving my return conversation with Professor Glenn Diesen as we dissect the US-Iran negotiations, the sudden focus on a short extension, and the strategic...
U.S. troops are training for chemical and nuclear fallout while fresh forces and warships surge toward the Middle East, and I can’t shake the feeling that those “routine drills” are happening for a reason. We walk through what the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit’s...
It was 250 years ago that Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations. In it, he looked back on the contact that various distant peoples had had with Europeans, following the discoveries of Christopher Colombus and Vasco de Gama. The results, by Smith’s time in 1776,...
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