It seems as if hardly a week goes by that we don’t hear about some celebrity or industrialist saying that he doesn’t intend to leave his fortune to his children. There is a widespread belief in the Anglophone world that inheriting money will make children lazy and...
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Palestinian and Israeli Civilians Have a Mutual Interest in Peace
by Lora Karch Dulgarian | May 15, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Palestinian and Israeli civilians are uniquely brought together in their disdain and disagreement with the strategies executed in this unwanted war. The destruction caused by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the terrorist organization Hamas have each...
Conflicts of Interest, Fearmongering, and Data Control Under the Guise of National Security
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | May 14, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
In a recent article in The Washington Post, their spotlight falls on a group of tech billionaires, former government officials, and industry advisers who have orchestrated a campaign against TikTok, culminating in calls for its ban or forced sale. This concerted...
George Washington Warned Against A ‘Passionate Attachment’ To Israel
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | May 14, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As war rages in Gaza, the intensifying debate over the U.S.-Israel relationship spotlights a glaring political paradox: Those Americans who view George Washington with deepest reverence—that is, would-be “conservatives”—are often the ones who most zealously violate...
Psychiatry is Vexing Americans and Subverting Freedom
by Jim Bovard | May 13, 2024 | Featured Articles
Psychiatry is ruining more lives than ever before. The New York Times recently showcased psychiatric “prevalence inflation”—a vast increase in reported mental illness among teenagers because they are encouraged to view normal symptoms as grave maladies requiring...
How Will Australia Respond to Its Series of Stabbings?
by Kym Robinson | May 13, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
A person's right to defend themself is sacred. It is only through the arbitrary magic of government that we create a set of standards that determine what a person is allowed to do in the moments of frightful violence. In Australia, for example, government arbitration...
TGIF: What Is Self-Determination?
by Sheldon Richman | May 10, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
People go on quite a bit about self-determination these days. Some decry the denial of self-determination to "the Palestinians." Others insist that only "the Jewish people" can have the right to self-determination between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea....
The Imperial Lamb: America, Israel, and Ritual Substitution
by John Weeks | May 9, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“And for you, here are these ritual substitutes…And may they die, but I will not die.”- Keilschrifturkunden aus Boghazköi XXIV 5 I 15-16 The relationship between the United States Imperial Government (USIG) and the state of Israel is what the kids call “wtf!?” The...
The Abraham Accords Further Complicated America’s Place in the Middle East
by Aaron Sobczak | May 9, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Israel has had mostly agreeable relations with the Sunni Arab states for some time now, as they and the United States all fear an empowered Iran. Iran certainly has the capacity to be the region’s most powerful state. While it's currently sidelined on the world stage,...
Biden Said Putin Killed Navalny; He Didn’t
by Ted Snider | May 8, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There are plenty of very real things to criticize Russian President Vladimir Putin for, not least of which is invading Ukraine. But lying (in this instance) may not be one of them. Putin lied when he said Russia was not going to invade Ukraine. But, wrong though the...
Conserving the New Deal?
by Norman Singleton | May 8, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
Jeffery Tyler Syck, assistant professor of political science at the University of Pikeville, is the latest conservative to urge the right to abandon—or at least modify—its commitment to free markets and constitutionally-limited government. In an article for The...
Politics is a Game, and the Players Want to Win
by Brad Pearce | May 7, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
The recent massive “foreign aid” bill which gave over $60 billion to Ukraine was a key victory for what we call the “Uniparty.” However, this was not just a cash transfer; more accurately, quite a lot of the money went as spoils to the American military contractors...
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Biden Signs Bill Banning Russian Uranium, Gives Billions for American Production
President Joe Biden signed a bill into law that bans Russian uranium imports and provides nearly $3 billion in handouts to boost domestic production. The bill provides an exemption to allow US companies to import Russian uranium if they have no other options. On...
Sweden Is Open to Hosting NATO Nuclear Weapons
The Swedish prime minister said his country would be willing to host nuclear weapons during a war. The North Atlantic Alliance has a nuclear sharing program that has US nuclear weapons deployed in five countries. The Polish leader recently said he hopes Warsaw can one...
AP: Israeli Settlers’ Rampage Against West Bank Village Leaves ‘Trail of Wreckage’
A rampage led by illegal settlers against the village of Duma last month has left a “trail of wreckage,” including approximately $1.3 million in damages, epitomizing the dire situation for Palestinians within all the Israeli occupied territories during the Gaza war....
Senate Bill Seeks to Place Campus Protesters on No-Fly List
A bill introduced in the Senate by two Republicans seeks to place campus protesters on a no-fly list. Across the country, pro-Palestinian students are gathering on campuses and demanding their universities cut ties with the Israeli government over Tel Aviv’s ruthless...
Russia Pummels Ukrainian Energy Infrastructure as Kiev Seeks More Air Defenses
Russian missiles and drones targeted energy infrastructure in cities across Ukraine on Tuesday night. The attack was one of Moscow’s largest so far in the war and came as Kiev is desperately seeking new air defense systems. According to Ukrainian officials, Russia...
Netanyahu Implored Qataris to Continue Funding Hamas in 2018 Letter
As Israel’s war on Palestinians living in the besieged Gaza Strip continues escalating, a secret 2018 letter penned by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the leadership in Doha exposes Tel Aviv’s diplomatic efforts to ensure tens of millions of dollars would reach...
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Another Aspect of the Eternal Intelligence Failure in the West
Had a brain zephyr. I know this because I am on the spectrum. The intelligence community (IC) hires high IQ but neuro-divergent individuals who have difficulty with tone and context and that colors reporting, assessments and final analyses. Couple that with...
What Is Easy and What Is Not Easy
It is easy to oppose Israel's massacre in the Gaza Strip. Just watch a few horrifying videos. What is not easy is understanding the price system, its prerequisites -- private property and free exchange -- and its benefits for mankind, including civil peace.
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.