Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar recently found herself at the center of a controversy after her remarks to a Somali group were mistranslated and widely shared. The reality of the situation is that the main thing she said reflects a U.S. policy pre-dating her entry...
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America’s Answer Is More Violence
by Ted Snider | Feb 8, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In an administration seemingly bankrupt of diplomacy or imagination, U.S. President Joe Biden and his team, led by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, have responded to the most hair trigger situations across the map in just...
News Roundup 2/6/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 6, 2024 | News Roundup
Russia Rep. Elissa Slotkin Says Pentagon Warned Congress Ukraine Defeat on Horizon Without More Aid X China Raytheon Awarded $68 Million Contract to Supply Taiwan With Glide Bombs AWC Israel Around 100,000 People in Gaza Have Been Killed, Injured or Are Missing X...
Who Will Fight These Wars Anyhow?
by Kym Robinson | Feb 6, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The war drums are beating, and public officials and the media are certain that the enemy must be conquered. The war is over there, away from home, in someone else's. The public is conditioned to accept that war is inevitable, that for the liberal democracies of...
News Roundup 2/5/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 5, 2024 | News Roundup
Ukraine Zelensky Informs White House He Will Fire Commander of Ukrainian Forces Reuters US Approves Sell Hundreds of Hell Fire Missiles to the Netherlands Pentagon Russia Says Ukraine Killed 28 in Shelling of Bakery With US-Provided HIMARS AWC India State Dept...
Hoppe Kicks Walter Block Out of Libertarianism Ep. 268
by Patrick Macfarlane | Feb 1, 2024 | Vital Dissent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDh4AtNM2QM Patrick covers Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s article kicking Walter Block out of Libertarianism for his views on Israel, the latest on the South African ICJ case against Israel for its alleged genocide in Gaza, and the ICJ judgement...
US to Begin Shipping Long-Range Bombs to Ukraine
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 31, 2024 | News
Washington plans to ship its first batch of ground-launched long-range bombs to Kiev this week. The arms were designed for the Ukrainian military and will give Kiev another option for deep strikes. The new weapon was developed by Boeing and Saab. It combines a...
Richard Sakwa Explains How We Ended Up In A New Cold War
by Ted Snider | Jan 31, 2024 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The war in Ukraine is a complicated tangle of three wars in one. It is a civil war between Ukraine’s European leaning west and its Russian leaning east. It is a war between Ukraine and Russia. And it is a war between Russia and NATO. Ben Abelow’s book, How the West...
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The Government Had to Bankrupt Spirit Airlines to Save It
The US government is very good at destroying things on the pretense that its actions are required to save the things destroyed.
Paul Krugman: The Dollar Can’t Collapse! Unless…
The scenarios under which Krugman says the dollar could collapse are not hypothetical. They are already here.
Taking It for Granted
"Capitalism, says Marx, unthinkingly repeating the fables of the eulogists of the Middle Ages, has an inevitable tendency to impoverish the workers more and more. The truth is that capitalism has poured a horn of plenty upon the masses of wage earners who frequently...
Taliban is Still on the Western Dole
However, the Taliban is the group handing out NGO licenses in Afghanistan. If a Taliban sympathizer asks for an NGO license, they get it. So, many of these groups send money directly to the Taliban or to support the families of suicide bombers. Legend also said...
The Miracle of Mass Production
"The fact that my fellow man wants to acquire shoes as I do, does not make it harder for me to get shoes, but easier." —Ludwig von Mises, Human Action
Against Rubio
Marco Rubio’s foreign policy vision is the antithesis of America First as he advocates for wars and increased military spending in Ukraine, the Middle East, and the Asia-Pacific. During the 2015/2016 GOP presidential primaries, Rubio was a fervent supporter along with...
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