by Daniel Larison | Oct 20, 2021 | News
Nikki Haley reminds us why we are fortunate that she is no longer representing our country at the U.N.:Iran and China have recently taken their alliance a step further. Last year, they finalized a “strategic partnership” that commits Beijing to investing $400 billion...
by Robert Scheer | Oct 5, 2021 | News
From ScheerPostTwenty years since the September 11, 2001 attacks, the human and financial cost of the United States’ failed “War on Terror” is plain to see: as one headline put it, “20 years, $6 trillion, 900,000 lives.” The estimates of lives lost and trillions spent...
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 18, 2021 | News
Joe Biden, who says the buck regarding Afghanistan stops with him in the White House, claims that the Taliban’s final takeover of the capital, Kabul, provoking mass panic reminiscent of Saigon, 1975, happened more quickly “than anticipated.” If...
by Gilbert Doctorow | May 3, 2021 | News
As we all have been taught, at its creation what is today called the European Union was conceived as a “peace project.” True, its first iteration in a French-German understanding on managing trade in coal and iron was purely economic. True, a later...
by Yves Engler | Apr 19, 2021 | News
Canada’s navy is running provocative maneuvers in the South China Sea. While they claim to be upholding the "international rules based order" in these missions, their main partner refuses to recognize the Law of the Sea. At the end of last month HMCS Calgary...
