Doug Bandow discusses the state of U.S. relations with Russia, an issue of increasing relevance these days as some figures in American government try to leverage Russophobia for political purposes. Bandow reminds us that Russia is virtually no threat to the United...
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The Real Murderers: 34 Police Departments Kill Americans At Higher Rate Than National Average
by Matt Agorist | Dec 21, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
According to the most recent count of police killings, police in America have killed 1,039 people this year. Exactly 21 of these victims were at or under the age of 18 when their lives were taken by police officers who swore an oath to protect and serve. Many were...
Protection or Pain Treatment: Choosing Between Your Gun and Medical Marijuana
by Sam Jacobs | Dec 14, 2020 | Blog
The federal government currently criminalizes those who legally use medical marijuana and own firearms.
Will Washington Review the Double Standards of Its Syria File?
by Ahmad Salah | Dec 11, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The mayhem of the presidential elections left the American policy-makers locked in heated arguments about the future of the U.S. domestic and foreign policy alike. One of the most pressing issues on the agenda is the Middle East developments, especially the U.S. role...
Walter Q. Gresham, America’s Anti-Imperialist Secretary of State
by Hunter DeRensis | Dec 9, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
President-elect Joe Biden will soon finish selecting the men and women who will staff his incoming administration. The first announcements comprise the core of his foreign policy team, including the nomination of his longtime confidant Antony Blinken to be the next...
Syrian Oil Smuggling Ring Unites Turkey, Syrian Kurds, Barzani Family
by Ahmad Al Khaled | Dec 8, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A reluctant decline of violence on the fronts of the Syrian conflict over the past few years brought a flickering hope for an improvement of the overall situation in the country battered by the almost decade-long conflict. This positive impulse, however, failed to...
Beware the ‘Nurse Ratched’ State
by Laurie Calhoun | Dec 6, 2020 | Featured Articles
Advocates of minimal government have often warned against “The Nanny State,” which rears its ugly head whenever bureaucrats try to tell people what they should do and how they should live. There is a sense in which all governments do that, through the very enactment...
12/4/20 Gilbert Doctorow: Will Antony Blinken’s Past Catch Up With Him?
by Scott Horton | Dec 5, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Gilbert Doctorow talks about Biden's pick for Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, particularly his famous stepfather, Samuel Pisar. Pisar is well-known these days for being a holocaust survivor rescued by American GIs during World War II, but is less known for his...
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Firing Blanks: The Pentagon as a Fiscal Disaster Factory
I have mentioned previously that the introduction of all the latest and greatest western weapons in the inventory given to the Ukraine would have some very deleterious effects in the future. One was permitting possible future antagonists to observe and and take...
Can’t We All Get Along?
Pre-Zionism and pre-Israel, Arab-Muslims, Arab-Christians, and Arab-Jews (yes!) got along in many places as neighbors and friends. Compare that to Europe. Arab and Jewish nationalism messed it up. See Avi Shlaims's Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew.
Lying Politicians Gonna Lyingly Politick
House Speaker Mike Johnson speaking on Holocaust Remembrance Day: We remember what happened then [in Nazi Germany], and today, we are witnessing American universities quickly become hostile places for Jewish students and faculty. The very campuses which were once the...
The Purpose of the Antisemitism Awareness Act
The point of the House-passed (and misnamed) Antisemitism Awareness Act is not to empower the Education Department to sue and defund colleges under civil rights law. It is to make lawsuits unnecessary by chilling expression.
The Prussian Culture of Disobedience
"The German and Prussian officer corps are the officer corps with the greatest culture of disobedience–with maybe the exception of the French. The stories and events that kept alive the virtue requiring an officer–even in war–to disobey an order “when justified by...
Zionism versus Judaism
From the start, political Zionists identified their program with Judaism the religion (despite their secularism, even atheism). Also from the start, Jews -- including the most tradition-bound Jews -- vigorously disavowed that identification. They were shamed as...
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