Twenty years ago this spring the U.S. government was finally successful in lying us into war with Iraq. Administration after administration had sanctioned and bombed and even invaded the country, but finally 20 years ago next month the Bush Administration unleashed...
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I Support HB0220: the Maryland Defend the Guard Act
by Laurie Calhoun | Feb 13, 2023 | Blog, Foreign Policy
Here's my letter in support of HB0220: the Maryland Defend the Guard Act (I'll also be testifying at the hearing on February 15, 2023): HB0220 Favorable Dear House Health and Government Operations Committee: I write in support of House Bill 220, the Maryland Defend...
So Much Hot Air: The (Fake) China Threat Strikes Again!
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Feb 13, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Now that a few days have passed and the hysteria has come down slightly, perhaps a few sane thoughts might be added to what has otherwise been a microcosm of everything that is wrong with America’s warmongering media and political class. As everyone is by now well...
No, China Is Not ‘Switching Sides’
by Ted Snider | Feb 10, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since President Xi Jinping was re-elected as China’s leader at the Communist Party Congress on October 23, 2022, there has been a noticeable change in tone from Chinese officials towards the United States. This change in tone, coupled with Chinese restraint in their...
How the Media Ignores Yemen
by Trenton Hale | Feb 9, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since 2014, the tiny country of Yemen has been devastated by the ongoing civil war following the Houthi takeover of the government. It only got worse in March 2015; President Barack Obama began to aid the Saudi Arabian military intervention in the war. As of February...
An Overblown Balloon Headline Inflates False Narrative on China
by Patrick Macfarlane | Feb 8, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For several decades the American public has been instilled with an intrinsic fear of and hatred for China. No singular event in this seemingly inevitable march to war is more emblematic of the American public’s warped psyche than the “Chinese Spy Balloon”...
Rage Against the War Machine (Together!)
by Laurie Calhoun | Feb 7, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
The war in Ukraine has trundled on for nearly a year now, and it is hard to see an end in sight—barring nuclear conflagration. Stunningly, an increasing number of political leaders seem to believe that the outcome of the conflict will be “worth it," to invoke the...
The Missed Opportunities of the War in Ukraine
by Ted Snider | Feb 6, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Devastation has unfolded in Ukraine. As former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates say in The Washington Post, Ukraine’s “economy is in a shambles, millions of its people have fled, its infrastructure is being destroyed,...