https://youtu.be/2iRZnsoZ0pA The Third World suffers from a lack of economic development due to its lack of rights of private property, its government-imposed production controls, and its acceptance of government foreign aid that squeezes out private investment. Th e...
Ron Paul, the libertarian leaning former Texas congressman and GOP candidate for president, has always maintained that sanctions are acts of war. The Lancet Global Health recently published a study that proves him right.
United Nations officials are warning that displacement figures in the West Bank are at their highest levels since 1967 when Israel’s illegal occupation began. This is due to the skyrocketing killings, violence, and property theft against Palestinians perpetrated by the Israeli military alongside illegal settlers concomitant with the genocidal campaign in Gaza.
The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) launched a civilian aid boat to the besieged Gaza Strip on Sunday. The Handala departed Syracuse, Italy, with a crew comprised of volunteer medics, lawyers, journalists, and activists.
Though it’s rare to hear someone praise the military-industrial-congressional complex, it is only the latter component that masks a praiseworthy feat. Markets—also known as “people” voluntarily exchanging—have devised the most efficient methods for producing weapons...
Ely Ratner’s latest offering in Foreign Affairs, “The Case for a Pacific Defense Pact,” is a textbook example of how groupthink, careerism, and militarist ideology continue to warp U.S. foreign policy discourse. Ratner, now back at the Marathon Initiative after a...
Iran didn’t violate the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the United States did. When the U.S. bombed Iran’s civilian nuclear facilities on June 23, they didn’t just violate the cardinal rule of international law by attacking a sovereign nation, without Security...
President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that the US had carried out airstrikes on three nuclear sites in Iran.
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...
