Call me naive, but I increasingly suspect that much of today's "left" is not antiwar on principle. Rather, it's anti-American war because, in its view, America (not just the government) is rotten to the core: bourgeois, racist, patriarchal, heteronormative, blah,...
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TGIF: “America First” Need Not Be Antiwar
Today's Trump-inspired "America First" faction cannot be counted on to be consistently noninterventionist and antiwar. That it may lean that way because its chief rival faction is so enthusiastic about foreign adventurism is hardly a firm assurance that it will remain...
TGIF: Watch the Forest as Well as the Trees
It's always important not to miss the forest for the trees. U.S. government announcements, such as its report of the turnover to the Afghan government of the seventh and last military base in Afghanistan, Bagram, should lead no one to think that U.S. foreign policy...
TGIF: Imperial America, Which Never Left, Is Back
In a cliche-ridden foreign-policy speech delivered at the State Department on Thursday, President Joe Biden declared that "America is back"--on the global stage, presumably, as policeman of the world, but certainly not a disinterested policeman. The problem is that it...
TGIF: The Nonintervention Principle
Anyone old enough to think about "America's" role in the world ought to be able to walk and chew gum at the same time. For example, one ought to be able to argue firmly against U.S. intervention in other countries without feeling obliged to downplay or deny the real...
Episode 213: A Peak Behind the Deep State Curtain w/ Daniel McAdams
44 Minutes Suitable for All Ages Pete asked Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, Daniel McAdams, to return to the show. Daniel is going to use his experience of being on the Hill, and reporting on foreign policy, to answer questions...
TGIF: Trump’s Foreign Policy War on Americans
Beyond any reasonable doubt, in substance if not in appearance, Donald Trump is a thoroughly conventional American politician. It’s a wonder that anyone requires proof at this late date. This couldn’t be clearer than in foreign policy. Some of us who understand the...
Isolationism Without the Peace
One week into his term, President Donald Trump is shaping up to be an isolationist. Unfortunately, he is omitting isolationism's only redeeming quality--peace. The term isolationism is often misunderstood. It's mostly used as a slur for one's political...
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Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
