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Stephen M Walt: Countries Should Mind Their Own Business

by Steven Woskow | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog

"As A.J.P. Taylor once archly observed, leaders in the 19th century “fought ‘necessary’ wars and killed thousands; the idealists of the 20th century fought ‘just’ wars and killed millions.” Stephen M. Walt (professor of international relations at Harvard University)...

The Great Gareth Porter on the Woodrow Wilson Flu Epidemic of 1918

by Scott Horton | Apr 3, 2020 | Blog

He's not just the father of American Fascism, German Nazism, Soviet Communism, Chinese Communism, World War II, the American empire and the Bush family fortune. Wilson was also responsible for the great "Spanish" flu epidemic of 1918 and 1919. I sure hope there's such...

1917

by Sheldon Richman | Jan 20, 2020 | Blog

I've long thought that if you want to see through the deceptive camouflage to the truest essence of the state, you need to study the Great War, renamed World War I after the 20-year intermission between it and World War War II. As you study the prelude to the war that...

Charles Burris’s World War II and Cold War Historical Bibliographies

by Scott Horton | Jan 2, 2020 | Blog

The great Charles Burris of LewRockwell.com is my favorite revisionist "conspiracy" historian of the 20th century. I was previously very interested in these topics before being consumed by the terror wars in our current era. Charles has compiled a lifetime of...

American Conservatives Are the Forgotten Critics of the Atomic Bombing of Japan

by Barton Bernstein | Aug 13, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

“The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul,” he wrote. “The only difference between this and the use of gas (which President Franklin D. Roosevelt had barred as a first-use weapon in World War II) is the fear of...

Sheldon Richman From 1991 ‘Ancient History’: US Conduct in the Middle East Since World War II and the Folly of Intervention

by Scott Horton | Jul 22, 2019 | Blog

Check out this magnificent thing that Sheldon Richman wrote back in August 1991 about "Uncle Sam" ruining everything in the Middle East since back when the U.S. took over for the British.

Liberty in America During the Great War

by Sheldon Richman | Nov 11, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman

There’s always plenty for libertarians to complain about in our troubled world, but in many respects, things could be much worse. I’m thinking particularly of how the U.S. government punished dissent before, during, and even after America’s participation in World War...

Armistice Day

by Sheldon Richman | Nov 10, 2017 | Blog

Veterans Day, which is tomorrow but is observed today, used to be called Armistice Day, marking the end of the shooting in World War I. The armistice between the Allies and Germany was signed a little after 5 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, but wasn't to take effect until...

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Anti-War Blog – Journalist Leaked the Plans to Kill Fifty-Three People

It turns out that journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was ‘texted’ two-hours before the recent US attack on Yemen. Pete Hegseth, the US secretary of Defense texted him the war plan which included specific information about weapons to be used, targets and time of the strikes....

New WarNotes Podcast episode is Live Monday 24 March 2025

Ep 016 "Fixing Fight Club: Just Say No to NATO: Part Two" A continued discussion of the NATO debacle. It is time for America to completely reassess alliances and partnership around the world starting with NATO and then working its way down the list of useless and...

Reinventing the Economy w/Mike Maharrey

Mike Maharrey is back, and we discuss the Trump Administration’s plans for economic stability. Alp

Finland Pokes the Bear

President Stubb in Finland wants to expand the armed forces in Finland. Take a look at Finland on a map. Largest contiguous border with Russia in Europe. A population of 5.6 million. 5.6 million in one of the largest countries in Europe. The international border...

Carrier Follies Continue Apace

The military press seems to be coming around to the conclusion that has been floated here at the Institute for quite some time. The aircraft carrier has seen its time and it is time to retire the tired and anachronistic technology. Poor concepts, design and planning;...

Child Effigies

There was a time when Rebecca Black and her song, ‘Friday’ was a meme. It was popular for millions of people to tease, torment, stalk and threaten the life of a thirteen year old girl because of a music video, the digital mob was hungry for another child effigy to...

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The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger

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Today the front pages and bookstores are filled with tales of the so-called "China Threat." From spy balloons to Fentanyl pipelines, genocide to dreams of world domination: CHINA! But is it all true? Is any of it? Now, for the first time, the speciousness of these and...