Secretary of State Antony Blinken dismissed reports that the US was pushing Ukraine towards negotiating an end to the war with Russia during a meeting of NATO foreign ministers. At the summit, Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Ukraine had a "de facto" NATO...
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The Duty
by Kym Robinson | Nov 29, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The drumbeats of war seem to be the heartbeat of history and most often requires a generation of boys to wage it. Boys of a certain age are assumed to become combatants, to be used as fodder and be made killers or charged guilty of such potential, regardless of...
A History of Sino-American Relations
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Nov 28, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The following lecture was delivered at Spring Arbor University, October 2023. There is hardly anything more important to the future of the world than Sino-American relations. And that’s quite a thing to say when looking at the state of the world these days. But over...

Palestinian Cancer Patients Suffer Under Israeli Occupation
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 27, 2023 | News
Since October 7, Israeli security forces have taken a number of steps that condemned sick Palestinians to a slow death. In Gaza, the lone cancer treatment center has been made inoperable by Israeli military operations. In East Jerusalem, Gazan hospital patients were...

North Korea Begins Remilitarizing Border with South Korea
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 27, 2023 | News
According to the South Korean Defense Ministry, North Korean soldiers have begun rebuilding military posts along the border. In recent weeks, the relationship between North and South Korea took a further nose dive. First, Seoul announced it would partly suspend its...

An Interview With Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University’s Historian of the Middle East
by Michael Holmes | Nov 27, 2023 | Featured Articles
This interview took place on November 3, 2023. Rashid Khalidi is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East at Columbia University in New York City and worked as an advisor to Palestinian negotiators in the 1990s in Madrid and Washington. He has written many...
This Week At The Libertarian Institute
by Will Porter | Nov 25, 2023 | News
The Empire never sleeps – but neither do we. Missed a story? We’ve got you covered. Check out this week in review at the Libertarian Institute.
North Korea Scraps 2018 Military Pact with South After Seoul Walks Backs Commitments
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 23, 2023 | News
Amid escalating tensions in the region, North Korea has withdrawn from a 2018 agreement with South Korea that reduced military tensions on the Korean Peninsula. Pyongyang took the step after Seoul announced it would resume surveillance operations along the DMZ. The...
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American Odysseus
Matthew Hoh, former Capt. USMC, led men into war. So he knows the truth that war cheerleaders will never tell you. Check out his recent Memorial Day speech here: A Morality of Anger and Guilt
American Israel Supporters: Fake
Everyone is sick and tired of murderous, dishonest Israel. So they use ChatGPT to fake it. “I gotta reevaluate my opinions due to this new information.”
Now They Figure It Out…
Too little and too late and once the smaller companies get Pentagon contracts, they will be destroyed in the Pentagon's Soviet acquisition system. “While the Armament Directorate remains committed to our highly-capable legacy products, we have become convinced that...
Language, Race, and Man
“Man belongs neither to his language nor to his race; he belongs to himself.” --Ernest Renan
The Frigate Follies Get Worse and Worse
Déjà vu, it's happening again. The surface navy failures manifested in the Littoral Combat Ship, the Zumwalt and the USS Ford will soon have another ship to add to that gallery of maritime incompetence that showcases the modern US Navy. I say again, construction...
Democracy and Free Stuff
Democracy: the matching up of people who want free stuff with politicians who promise free stuff. Problem: free stuff as they all imagine it does not exist. However, it does exist in the market, as explained by Frédéric Bastiat in Economic Harmonies, chapter 8,...
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