From the Independent InstituteNearly 20 years after its hurried passage, key components of the USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001), are currently up for renewal....
MEMORANDUM FOR: The PresidentFROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPs)SUBJECT: Avoiding Hostilities Over Iranian Fuel Shipment to VenezuelaMr. President:Recent U.S. rhetoric and actions against Venezuela – most immediately regarding Iran’s...
General Dwight Eisenhower was the first NATO supreme allied commander. After assuming that post in 1951, General Eisenhower wrote about NATO’s goal: “If in 10 years, all American troops stationed in Europe for national defense purposes have not been returned to the...
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress could soon consider whether to end Selective Service registration or try to expand it to women. It's critically important to opponents of the draft and war to (1) contact your Representative and Senators and (2) educate,...
Our great and glorious ally Saudi Arabia has fallen on hard times. The coronavirus has arrived in the desert kingdom, prompting its government to take emergency measures and sending its economy into a tailspin. Vision 2030, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s...
The World Bank warns that there is a global poverty increase as tens of millions of people have fallen back into poverty because of the pandemic. Up to 60 million people worldwide may fall into extreme poverty due to the coronavirus, said David Malpass, head of the...
Dr. Ghada Ageel and Dr. Ramzy Baroud have more in common than their scholarly research on Palestinian history and politics. They are both refugees, and the direct descendants of Palestinian refugees who have been expelled from their historic village of Beit Daras at...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Fresh off of his defense of the foreign policy “Blob,” Hal Brands suggests that the U.S. might get back into the business of covertly overthrowing foreign governments:Just as the US sought to undermine or...
From The Grayzone: Crowdstrike, the firm behind the Russian email hacking allegation at the core of Russiagate, makes a bombshell admission: “We did not have concrete evidence.” In newly released Congressional testimony, Crowdstrike president Shawn Henry said that “we...
Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Thomas Meaney debunks the myth of Henry Kissinger:Since leaving office, too, Kissinger has rarely challenged consensus, let alone offered the kind of inconvenient assessments that characterized the later career of...
