2016 has been an interesting presidential race not just because the Republicans nominated a nutcase and the Democrats nominated someone under FBI investigation, but because of the foreign policy shift occurring at the top of the ticket. Since the early 1990s, the Republican Party has been dominated by an ideology known as neoconservatism, which advocates…
Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Libertarianism By: ELIAS ATIENZA Most libertarians happen to be white. John McAfee complained about it during the LP National Convention in Orlando, to which Julie Borowski responded. As a minority, many people wonder why I am a libertarian. I am a libertarian for many reasons; I distrust…
Libertarians, it’s time to get real about foreign policy and stop expecting Americans to support candidates who bash their country. That doesn’t mean we can’t criticize the government and its policies, but there is a strong contingent of libertarians who find a way to blame the American government for every problem the world faces. People…
Donald Trump admits he was for the Libyan intervention just like Hillary Clinton by Joey Clark Donald Trump is a “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma” which is a nice way of saying he’s honestly full of horse dung. Yet, it seems a large segment of the American people is quite ready to…
Russ Read The final text of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) will cut the size of the National Security Council (NSC) from over 400 employees to just 150 for fiscal year 2017. The provision intends to curb the exponential growth the NSC staff has seen over the past 25 years. Since the start of…
By Jonah Bennett The United States decided Monday it wants to provide arms to the Libyan government, just five years after overthrowing the regime and accidentally providing weapons to Islamic militants. Several other countries have joined the U.S. in asking the United Nations to grant an exemption to the five-year-old arms shipment ban currently imposed on…
Michael Bastasch United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told The Washington Post why he’s so fixated on fighting global warming: He thought he could solve the world’s problems by forcing countries to cut carbon dioxide. “From day one, I made climate change the top priority,” Ki-moon told The Post. “There were many crises around the world,…
By Richard Pollock Daniel Ellsberg, who famously leaked the Pentagon Papers, told a nostalgic anti-war gathering in Washington, D.C., Tuesday “we may be weeks away” from President Barack Obama “furtively” sending new U.S. “combat units” to Iraq. “As we talk, we may be weeks away from Marines being sent as units into combat in Iraq,”…
Russ Read Iran is bolstering its key ally Syria by sending a paramilitary force full of zealot student soldiers fiercely loyal to the Islamic Republic and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. A media group close to the Iranian government, Mehr News Agency, reported Tuesday at least 30 members of Iran’s Basij Resistance Force have been killed fighting in…
This week, Bernie Sanders, in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos, said that he wouldn’t end the federal government’s drone program. Sanders, however, did note that he would limit the use of drones in order to avoid civilian deaths. “I think we have to use drones selectively and effectively. That has not always been the case. What…