On September 18, 2022, President Joe Biden told a CBS news reporter in a “Sixty Minutes” interview that “The pandemic is over.” Two months later, on November 16, 2022, at a G20 meeting in Bali, Biden signed, on behalf of the United States, a declaration which states...
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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...
Mythology That Democrats and Republicans Still Believe! (feat. Dr. Christopher J. Coyne)
by Keith Knight | Dec 11, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/uFZGyyhf03c [T]he state's power to engage in national security policy making is a "master key" because it "opens all doors including the doors that might otherwise obstruct the government's invasion of our most cherished rights to life liberty and...
The Role of UK Intelligence Services in the Abduction, Murder of James Foley
by William Van Wagenen | Nov 28, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On 19 August, 2014, ISIS released a video of the beheading of American journalist James Foley who was kidnapped by the terrorist organization in 2012 while reporting on the conflict in Syria. Foley’s shocking execution became one of the most widely followed news...
Scott Adams Tweeted Something So Imbecilic It Ruined My Thanksgiving
by Keith Knight | Nov 24, 2022 | Blog
I wasn't expecting to see a compelling argument for letting the state raise kids instead of parents, but here it is. - Scott Adams The situation is as follows: Person X committed murder Person X was raised by a Parent Y who is an explicit bigot and advocate of...
Why Governments Should Never Be Trusted
by Keith Knight | Nov 13, 2022 | Blog
Terrific news. I'm about to be a millionaire, check out the email I just received: I am Aisha Al-Gaddafi, the only biological daughter of Former President of Libya Col. Muammar Al-Qaddafi. Am a single Mother and a Widow with three Children. I have investment...
Why So Many Americans Have a Crush on Putin
by Keith Knight | Nov 8, 2022 | Blog
When our President, Joe Biden, discusses America it primarily involves talking down to us. Reminding us about slavery, racism/"white man culture", inequality, grandma killers who question Fauci, MAGA "extremists" too stupid to know there were no anomalies in...
The Murder of Mahsa Amini, Iranians’ Quest for a Democratic State, and the Role of Outside Forces
by Muhammad Sahimi | Nov 7, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On September 13 Mahsa Amini (called Zhina by her own family), a 22-year-old woman from the Kurdistan province in western Iran, was in Tehran to visit her family and friends. She was detained by Iran’s “guidance patrol” (referred to as “morality police” in the Western...
Libertarian Principles Perfectly Complement Clausewitz’s Theories of War
by Finn Andreen | Nov 2, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
The ongoing war in Ukraine has forced many Westerners to consider the realism of Carl von Clausewitz’s classic On War. The Prussian military theorist famously wrote that: “War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means.” Though this...
Abandon the Fetish for ‘Unconditional Surrender’
by Ryan McMaken | Oct 27, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Monday, thirty members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus called on the Biden administration to pursue a negotiated peace settlement or cease-fire with Ukraine. The letter from the Progressive Caucus is careful to praise the administration for its ongoing...
Oh, fer cryin’ out loud
by Scott Horton | Oct 20, 2022 | Blog
Caitlin Johnstone: They're Recycling The Viagra Rape Atrocity Propaganda They Used On Libya Of course in real life, it was American-backed LIFG terrorists who were the mass rapists.
To Save the Republic, Abolish the Black Budget
by Laurie Calhoun | Oct 10, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
I have been puzzling over the ever-augmenting Black Budget since about the time the U.S. government began openly assassinating suspects, including U.S. citizens, without indictment, much less conviction in a court of law, for capital crimes. Tim Weiner’s...
We Have Just One Planet, Let’s Not Nuke It
by Kym Robinson | Oct 5, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”- President John F Kennedy There was a time when a lot of people feared nuclear war. The Cold War was a delicate...
We Need More Giuliani Moments
by Connor Freeman | Sep 13, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
After 9/11, the principles in arch neocon Paul Wolfowitz’s notorious 1992 Defense Planning Guidance were embraced by the George W. Bush administration. Subsequently, throughout successive Democrat and Republican administrations, the warmongers running the National...
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Reminder: Volodymyr Zelenskyy Almost Started a World War Based on a Lie
On November 15th, the Associated Press reported that "A senior U.S. intelligence official says Russian missiles crossed into NATO member Poland, killing two people". Since Poland is a member of the North American Treaty Organization, that would mean that America along...
Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
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