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How America’s Wars Cut Down American Liberty
How America’s Wars Cut Down American Liberty If we forswore military intervention in other countries, we could still affect the world in a positive way through free trade. Professor Tucker argues in his Liberty Forum essay that a grand strategy, at least one that is dreamed of by experts, “is not a possibility for the United States,” […]
What’s Wrong With the United States?
What’s Wrong With the United States? Photo source jqpubliq | CC BY 2.0 Despite the myth perpetrated by United States spokespersons, the country is not, and never has been, a beacon of peace and freedom, the ‘land of the free and the home of the brave’, or a democracy that is the envy of the […]
Syria & Iran Prove There’s No Chance For North Korean Peace
Syria & Iran Prove There’s No Chance For North Korean Peace There is a saying in geopolitics that peace summits are generally a perfect time to prepare for war. This thinking stems from the military philosophy of Sun Tzu, who believed that when a nation is weak it is important to appear strong, and when […]
De-escalation With North Korea, Escalation With Iran
De-escalation With North Korea, Escalation With Iran Photo by DAVID HOLT | CC BY 2.0 As a journalist, I have always dreaded reporting on meetings between world leaders billed as “historic” or “momentous” or just plain “significant”. Such pretensions are usually phoney or, even if something of interest really does happen, its importance is exaggerated […]
The Media Never, Ever Gives Peace a Chance
The Media Never, Ever Gives Peace a Chance At this writing, President Trump is considering “the possibility of retaliation in Syria in response to a suspected chemical attack on young children and families in the Syrian city of Douma,” reported CBS News. “If it’s the Russians, if it’s Syria, if it’s Iran, if it’s all […]
Are Nuclear Weapons in a Multipolar World Order a Guarantee for Peace?
FEDERICO PIERACCINI | 12.03.2018 | WORLD / AMERICAS | FEATURED STORY Are Nuclear Weapons in a Multipolar World Order a Guarantee for Peace? In the previous article I explained how the invention of the nuclear device altered the balance of power after WWII and during the cold war era. In this second article I intend to explain […]
Peace: The One Thing the US Warmongers Do Not Want
Peace: The One Thing the US Warmongers Do Not Want Vice President Mike Pence made fools of the US at the South Korea Olympics. Kim Jong Un’s sister stole the show. For a welcome change of pace, a thaw between North and South Korea is taking place. Unfortunately, the US wants no part of it […]
This Was Mises’s Main Case for Peace
This Was Mises’s Main Case for Peace War only destroys. Peace, on the other hand, creates. War is absolutely devastating. There is no dancing around that fact. Not only is it responsible for the loss of countless human lives, it also leaves an immeasurable amount of physical and emotional destruction in its wake. The market […]
The Peace Fallacy
The Peace Fallacy Furthermore, we have about 50% of the world’s wealth but only 6.3% of the its population. . . . In this situation, we cannot fail to be the object of envy and resentment. Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to […]
War, Peace and Recession
War, Peace and Recession December and January are usually two busy months for researchers as they release prediction/forecast of the New Year. We are going to briefly discuss two such forecasts here. Top 5 World War III Crises The first one is a geopolitical forecast, 5 Places World War III Could Start in 2018, published […]
Giving War Too Many Chances
Giving War Too Many Chances As the new year begins, it is important for the U.S. to acknowledge its troubling history of global war-making, especially over the past two-decades, as Nicolas J.S. Davies delineates. I met John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Christmas Eve in 1969. I joined them and a small group of local […]
I May Be a Radical, But I’m Definitely Not a Utopian
I May Be a Radical, But I’m Definitely Not a Utopian I don’t have a grand, sweeping plan. I just want peace. I become a very fun party guest when the topic turns to politics. My Mundane Radicalism RE: Politics I come at questions about policy from a different angle than most. I don’t believe […]
Why Presidents Campaign on Peace but Rule by War
Why Presidents Campaign on Peace but Rule by War (ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — If the United States government continues as it does today, bestriding the narrow world like a colossus, it will be stabbed through the heart by daggers inscribed with the nation’s founding principles — the words “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” shedding salty tears of blood […]
Ron Paul: “Peace is Popular”
Ron Paul: “Peace is Popular” Reporting from Mexico City… Last Saturday, as we’ve been reporting this week, Ron Paul and many other notables in the liberty sphere took to the stage in Lake Jackson, Texas, for a very important symposium. The topic of discussion? War and Peace in the Age of Trump. As promised, today […]
