The Gulf of TonkinThe Mexican-American WarThe Spanish-American WarPearl HarborOperation Northwoods9/11The War on IraqA Point of Disagreement with RFK, Jr. The Gulf of Tonkin In Glen Greenwald’s recent interview with presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.,...
On this day in 1917, the government of Great Britain issued its infamous “Balfour Declaration” promising to support the Zionists in their project to establish a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. While most people have heard of this document, what is...
China, we are told by US government officials and the parroting establishment media, has been aggressively attempting to expand its territory by taking over islands in the South China Sea. China, we are told, is a threat to peace. It’s true, veteran journalist John...
From “The World at War” YouTube description: Ralph Raico is a specialist in European classical liberalism and Austrian Economics. He learned economics under Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and Friedrich Hayek, and is professor emeritus of history at...
A few days ago, I posted on Facebook: Ever notice when the mainstream media says Ahmadinejad denied the Holocaust, they never actually provide a quote of him doing so? Hmm… That sparked a bit of discussion you can read there. But reading the New York...
Steven Horwitz and Michael J. McPhillips have a new paper in The Independent Review building off of Robert Higgs’ work dispelling the myth of wartime prosperity, this idea that World War II brought the U.S. out of the Great Depression. They begin by...
Japan on Friday marked the 65th anniversary of the nuclear bomb attack on Hiroshima. U.S. Ambassador John V. Roos attended the annual ceremony that marks the event. It was the first time a U.S. official had done so. The New York Times explains the reason: Until...
Yisrael Beitenu, the political party of Israel’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, has proposed that Arab Israelis be banned from marking the anniversary of the dispossession of hundreds of thousands of Arab Palestinians in 1948. An estimated 700,000 Arabs were...
This is a rush transcript of the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s remarks at the United Nations Durban Review Conference on racism in Geneva, Switzerland, on April 20, 2009. Transcribed from the translation given in the U.N. webcast of the speech. In the name...
The use of force in international relations is a common practice in the world today, as it has historically been, with the responsible party never failing to claim some noble cause or worthy justification for its actions. Such declarations of benevolence aside, the...