Recently the Israeli Defense Force murdered an aid convoy. A group of international aid workers who had coordinated with the IDF and who were travelling on an IDF approved route. When the aid workers came under attack, they contacted the IDF. Three assaults were...
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Diagnosing Israel’s Imperial Narcissism
by John Weeks | Apr 9, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As it continues to engage in a “plausibly genocidal” mass murder spree in Gaza, the state of Israel has embraced the most psychotic and psychopathic interpretation of one of the most violent narratives from the Hebrew Bible. This is fueling a narcissism that puts the...
World War III Isn’t Preordained (No Matter What They Say)
by Brad Pearce | Apr 4, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A recent survey from YouGov found that 61% of Americans think a world war within the next five to ten years is “very likely” or “somewhat likely,” while only 21% say that such a scenario is “not very likely” or “not likely at all.” It’s notable that Democrats, who are...
The Growing Fissures in NATO Unity
by Ted Snider | Apr 4, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Despite the damage done in Ukraine and NATO’s now apparent inability to support Ukraine’s defense against Russia strongly enough, one item in the western win column is the claim that NATO is more unified following the damage done by Donald Trump. Even aside from NATO...
TGIF: Israel Humiliated
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 29, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
To more fully understand the ferocity of Israel's massacre of the people of the Gaza Strip, it's perhaps worth considering that on October 7, 2023, the reputedly invincible Israeli Defence Forces and intelligence services were made to look like fools caught sleeping...
‘Integrated Deterrence’ Means Provoking China
by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 28, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In its most recent National Defense Strategy, the U.S. Department of Defense declared a policy of “integrated deterrence” against the People’s Republic of China, its primary “pacing challenge.” The document defined “integrated deterrence” as: "...working seamlessly...
In Defense of Inaction
by Brad Pearce | Mar 27, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
On March 17, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by a woman named Mary Anastasia O’Grady titled, “Giving up on Haiti Isn’t a U.S. Option.” She argues, in short, that Americans don’t have a choice but to continue doing all the things that have failed in the past...
Is America a Rogue Superpower?
by Ted Snider | Mar 27, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“Unipolar” used to mean that the United States was, at least in theory, alone in leading the world. Now “unipolar” means that the United States is alone and isolated in opposition to the world. In global affairs, a hegemon is a nation that leads because it has the...