In 1877, before he had made his fortune via the founding of De Beers Consolidated Mines and the British South Africa Company, the imperialist par excellence Cecil Rhodes had dictated a part of his will thusly: “[To make provision] for the establishment, promotion and...
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Washington’s Never-Ending Love Affair with Sanctions
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jun 1, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
One of the more puzzling features of the U.S. approach to world affairs is how officials persist in their enthusiasm for economic sanctions as a worthwhile policy tool despite massive evidence regarding their futility. More than three decades ago, Gary Hufbauer,...
Trying to Build Peace One BRICS At a Time
by Ted Snider | May 25, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In the early days of the war in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was open to negotiating a peace. The United States was not. State Department spokesman Ned Price explained, oddly, that the midst of a war is not the time for diplomacy. “This is not real...
A Few Thousand Years of Chinese Foreign Policy (In a Nutshell)
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 23, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
An examination of Chinese foreign policy historically lends little support to those who depict China as secretly plotting to take over the world. Rather, it points to an entity preoccupied with managing its complex, local strategic environment and internal security...
Betting on Russian Submission? Don’t Roll Those Dice
by Derek Wheeler | May 23, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As we enjoy our lives within the neocon utopia that's been carefully crafted for us, let us set aside, for a moment, all basic morality and the natural rights of life, liberty, and property. Surely, if we put on the same hegemonic blinders worn by the likes of John...
News Roundup 5/8/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | May 8, 2023 | News Roundup
Assange Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has expressed frustration over the Biden administration’s efforts to convict WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, an Australian citizen. AWC Russia The Pentagon has ordered more Javelin anti-tank missiles manufactured by...
Libertarianism Should Not Be Hostile to Women’s Liberation
by Kym Robinson | May 4, 2023 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
A young college woman is raped by a man. No justice is found because the rapist is an otherwise “promising young man” with a future ahead of him. His victim is merely a blip on his sterling professional conduct. Those who witnessed or were aware of the rape pretend as...
US Issues Warnings to China, Then Calls for High-Level Talks
by Kyle Anzalone | May 3, 2023 | News
Nicholas Burns, the US Ambassador to China, warned Beijing about supporting Moscow and called for talks during a speech on Tuesday.
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US Navy Follies: The Other Ghost Fleet
The US Navy and Marines have not conducted an amphibious assault on contested beach since Inchon in Korea (10-19 September 1950 although arguably the last major contested amphibious campaign in May of 1945 of Okinawa) and have practically abandoned surface maritime...
Anti-War Blog – Be Proud
Proud mother come and see what your soldier sons are doing, see them search crying children who no longer can walk the streets to go from home to school. They kidnap little boys, to torture or imprison. Maybe they shatter their arms and send them on their way. Cry for...
The Culture of Lying and Deceit in the US Army
It's not just the Army and all the services practice this level of institutional cravenness and dishonesty. Deceit and covering up errors is a long time practice in the US uniformed armed forces. The article is older but more true over time. The gravest peril of the...
Manned Tanks: Stop Building These Things
Arguably one of the best manned tanks ever made, the refurbished M1 Abrams is not faring well in the Ukraine and it is estimated the UKR forces have lost 20 of the 31 tanks supplied to them. This is not only a result of inadequate training, immature doctrine and...
Lead-bottom: McHale’s Navy Comes of Age in the 21st Century
USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE-11) 2020 The US Navy continues to go the way of the Royal Navy from a storied force in history to a surface fleet plagued with problems and seemingly incapable of getting anything right as we have documented in these pages at the...
Interview: Biden’s Faux Ceasefire Efforts Facilitate Israel’s Genocide
I discuss the latest news about Israel and the US role in its conflicts with the Palestinians and Hezbollah.
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