Apparently, segments of the GOP political apparatus are trying to put the kibosh on Sen. Rand Paul's presidential run before it is even officially announced. Paul's 2016 Republican contenders and their wealthy backers hate his foreign policy so much that they are...
Back in December, I argued in the Huffington Post that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is really not about "free trade," but about serving the strategic interests of Washington. Negotiations are still ongoing (mostly in secret, somewhat notably) and many of the...
I love a good argument too, but I think the Crimea situation is less about race, nationalism and the East-West divide than it is economics. Crimea is dirt poor, even by Ukranian standards, and was intensely dependent on government aid. The regime change brought about...
Via Charles Davis, the Washington Post reports on comments made by President Obama today: Speaking in Brussels, Obama dismissed suggestions by Russia and its supporters that the Iraq war undercuts the United States' credibility in criticizing Russia's incursion into...
Despite Justin's attempts to place me in the the same camp as the neocons, Anthony Gregory of the Independent Institute has written a balanced and principled piece on this controversy. Here's an excerpt: So what should we think? We should probably take a middle ground...
John Glaser’s blog post on Crimea is typically American – i.e. it is bathed in unconscious albeit ferocious nationalism. He starts out by accusing me of excusing “the crimes and misdeeds of foreign regimes that Washington sees as antagonistic.” The crimes of foreign...
In opposing and challenging U.S. foreign policy, there is a tendency among some in the libertarian movement to excuse the crimes and misdeeds of foreign regimes that Washington sees as antagonistic. Fundamentally, I believe this represents a grave bias that has no...
At the National Interest, Cato's Ted Galen Carpenter argues Washington's Eastern European NATO allies "are dangerous strategic liabilities, not assets." NATO, he writes, has worn out its strategic value and expanding it as we have since the end of the Cold War merely...
In the New York Times, Ben Macintyre reviews the new book by Richard Overy The Bombers and the Bombed. Macintyre gives a summary of Overy's myth-busting about the Allied bombing of Germany. Indiscriminate bombing of civilians, instead of sticking to military targets,...
The Egyptian court has just handed down one of the most grotesque sentences in Egyptian history, condemning 529 people to death in one fell swoop. The US State Department said it was "shocked" and that the verdict defies logic. "While appeals are possible,...
