CIA Director William Burns held “clandestine” meetings with Chinese intel agencies during an unannounced trip to Beijing last month, US officials told the Financial Times, suggesting the visit was intended to “stabilize” deteriorating relations with the People’s Republic.
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News Roundup 6/1/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 1, 2023 | News Roundup
US News The former CIA officer, Brian Jeffrey Raymond, is accused of sexually assaulting 20 incapacitated women, but the case against him could fall apart because of the botched execution of the search warrant by the State and Justice Departments. NBC News The debt...
News Roundup 5/23/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | May 23, 2023 | News Roundup
US News American military-industrial complex firms are guilty of “price gouging,” former Pentagon insiders told Newsweek. The Institute Russia Russian officials said Monday that a Ukrainian sabotage group launched a cross-border raid in Russia’s Belgorod Oblast, and...
News Roundup 5/17/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | May 17, 2023 | News Roundup
US News The far-reaching effects of America’s War on Terror may have contributed to the deaths of some 4.5 million people, according to new research by Brown University’s ‘Costs of War’ project. While many of the fatalities were the direct result of violent conflict,...
NATO Conducts Largest-Ever Anti-Submarine Drills
by Kyle Anzalone | May 16, 2023 | News
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization conducted war games aimed at tracking and eliminating submarines. The 12-nation exercises were the alliance’s largest-ever military drills simulating underwater warfare.
Taking Notes Out of Rothbard’s Taiwan Playbook
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 16, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Writing pseudonymously in a series of articles for Faith and Freedom in the 1950s, Murray Rothbard took on the question of whether or not the United States should defend Formosa (Taiwan) from attack by mainland China. While his conclusions will surprise no one...
News Roundup 5/15/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | May 15, 2023 | News Roundup
Russia The debate in Washington about ending the war in Ukraine has become “amorphous and paradoxical,” according to the New York Times. AWC British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace confirmed on Thursday that London is providing Ukraine with longer-range missiles,...
US, China Tentatively Agree to Restart Dialogue, as Washington Fears Allies Will View Policies As Too Aggressive
by Connor Freeman | May 13, 2023 | News
Renewed meetings between senior American and Chinese officials may suggest the fragile relations between the world’s two largest economies could begin to thaw with increased communication and diplomacy, the Washington Post reported on Friday.
News Roundup 5/11/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | May 11, 2023 | News Roundup
Russia Ukrainian military officials on Wednesday claimed that their forces made some gains near the eastern Donbas city of Bakhmut, where Russian forces have been steadily advancing for months. AWC Ukraine’s foreign minister said the upcoming counteroffensive against...
News Roundup 5/10/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | May 10, 2023 | News Roundup
Assange A cross-party group of Australian members of parliament met with the US ambassador to Australia on Tuesday and called for Washington to drop the charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, an Australian citizen. AWC Russia Britain appears to be moving...
Sino-Japanese Relations Are Deteriorating, But Western Media Ignores It…
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 8, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Apart from its well-practiced habit of uncritically repeating whatever the Pentagon, State Department, White House (or really any other government agency) have to say on a particular subject, of equal importance in any indictment of the so-called Fourth Estate is what...
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.
News Roundup 5/3/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | May 3, 2023 | News Roundup
US News Over the weekend, President Biden declared “journalism is not a crime” at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a statement that rings hollow as his Justice Department is seeking the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for exposing US war crimes....
What the China Literature Gets Wrong
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 1, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For more than a decade it's become expected for books peddling the "China threat" to pop up as best sellers. From Martin Jacques' When China Rules the World (2009) to Michael Pillsbury’s The Hundred-Year Marathon (2015), the best response has been to just shrug and...
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The Non-Existent Difference Between National Socialism and Democratic Socialism
Summary: National Socialism and Democratic Socialism both advocate institutionalized violence by the state against peaceful people only differing in rhetoric. The most popular self described Democratic Socialists in America today are Senator Bernie Sanders and...
A Response to My Memorial Day Critics
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...
Ignoring Political Gossip & Sticking to Principle
https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...
The Myth of “Hyper-Rugged-Isolationist-Individualism”
Myth #1: Libertarians believe that each individual is an isolated, hermetically sealed atom, acting in a vacuum without influencing each other. This is a common charge, but a highly puzzling one. In a lifetime of reading libertarian and classical-liberal...
The Lesson From Germany and Korea
Institutions are, of course, in some sense the products of culture. But, because they formalize a set of norms, institutions are often the things that keep a culture honest, determining how far it is conducive to good behaviour rather than bad. To illustrate the...
Occupational Licensing Increases Prices and Deprives People of Options
When you shop online, vendors usually give you a bunch of different ways to sort your options. Take Amazon: One popular sorting option – especially for customers with low income – is “Price: Low to High.” You’ve probably used it yourself many times. This...
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