News from Southeast Asia this morning was that the Joe Biden administration was again rattling its saber over incidents between the Philippines and China in the South China Sea. At issue are some spits of sand thousands of miles from the United States. Just as a...
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Netanyahu’s Support for Hamas Has Backfired
by Scott Horton and Connor Freeman | Oct 31, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Editor’s Note: This article was extended and updated on 11/10/23, including to reflect the latest tolls of death and destruction in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Intifada On October 7th, a large group of armed Hamas fighters broke out of the Gaza Strip to launch...
TGIF: Don’t Police the World
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 27, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, History, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
"We" -- to be precise, U.S. policymakers and their quasi-private-sector, tax-nourished enablers-beneficiaries-- must not police the world, become directly involved in wars, covertly assist belligerents, or act as arms merchants and bankers. The central government...
Did Putin Kill Yevgeni Prigozhin?
by Ted Snider | Oct 26, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On August 23, 2023, Yevgeni Prigozhin’s plane crashed, ending the life of the leader of the Wagner private military group. Since then, little effort or ink has been spent on who is responsible for his murder. The West’s intrigue and attention was held as long as the...
No, We Cannot Fund Yet Another War
by Connor O'Keeffe | Oct 19, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In a 60 Minutes interview over the weekend, host Scott Pelley asked President Joe Biden, “Are the wars in Israel and Ukraine more than the United States can take on at the same time?” The president answered, “We can take care of both of these and still maintain our...
What Will Be Mark Milley’s True Legacy?
by Connor Freeman | Oct 19, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Gen. Mark Milley retired on Friday [September 29] as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and handed over command to Air Force chief Gen. Charles Q. Brown. In 2019, Milley took up the post after being nominated by President Donald Trump. He oversaw massive...
Rage and the Meme Effect
by Kym Robinson | Oct 18, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“People shouldn’t expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the ‘fringe’ media.”- Ted Koppel It’s called the fog of war for a reason, and yet it is with viciousness, fortified by bias and outrage, that we witness a certain eagerness to...
U.S. Breaks Its Deal with Iran…Again
by Ted Snider | Oct 18, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Building on its reputation as an unreliable diplomatic partner, the United States announced on October 12 that it was pulling out of the deal that would have granted Iran access to $6 billion of its money in exchange for the release of five American prisoners. This...