Over the last year, I have focused much of my work on opposing the New Cold War with Russia and China—particularly with China. In a recent piece, “‘No One is Calling for War with China,’” I tackled a claim that I’ve been hearing recently. I understand the argument to...
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Backdraft: How U.S. Sanctions on Russia May Burn the Dollar
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Apr 11, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There’s much to despise about economic sanctions. Aside from the fundamental immorality of making innocent individuals suffer for the sins of governments, sanctions almost universally fail to achieve the goals of those who inflict them. Nonetheless, sanctions have...
TGIF: In Defense of Ideology
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 8, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, TGIF
The seemingly unprecedented mean-spiritedness of politics these days drives some people to think that ideology is the problem. To distinguish themselves from those whom they blame for the toxic atmosphere, some pundits declare themselves "above ideology," even...
Uncle Sam’s Grand Delusion
by Patrick Macfarlane | Apr 7, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On Monday, March 28, the Pentagon submitted its 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS) to Congress. While the entire report remains classified, an unclassified fact sheet was released to the media. It identified the Pentagon’s four main defense priorities: Defending the...
Charges Dropped Against Father Who Shot at SWAT Team Who Injured His Baby During Raid
by Matt Agorist | Apr 7, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As TFTP reported in February, Corey Marioneaux Jr., 24, is a father of two, church-going community member with no criminal record who defended his family from armed intruders. Because the intruders were cops, however, Marioneaux was charged with attempted murder of a...
The ‘Threat’ of the Big Bad Bear
by Kym Robinson | Apr 6, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
At the height of the late Cold War period, Andrew Cockburn wrote The Threat, a book that explored the bear cave of assumed Soviet military dominance. Challenging the narrative of Soviet supremacy—the belief that the Red Bear not only had greater numbers in their favor...
Joe Biden Is Killing America’s Energy Sector
by William Anderson | Apr 6, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
One of the saddest quotes from the Vietnam War came from journalist Peter Arnett, who wrote in a dispatch in 1968 about an American attack on a Vietcong-held village: “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” As often happens with such quotes, they take on...
Why Do Our Neighbors Support War with Russia?
by Connor Freeman | Apr 5, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In the world today, the war in Ukraine is the worst thing happening, right? Not really, that would actually be Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen, the Middle East’s poorest nation. In the Yemen war, now beginning its eighth year, Washington and its satellites Riyadh and Abu...