The Washington Post has published a long piece calling for NATO to take on a new official enemy—China. The piece is written by Sara Bjerg Moller, an assistant professor in the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University. She argues that after 30 years since losing the Soviet Union as its official enemy and
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. Now that Cuban president Raul Castro has resigned the presidency of Cuba, will the U.S. government lift its six-decades-long economic embargo against Cuba? Don’t count it. Squeezing the life out of the Cuban people as a way to get regime change has become such a normalized way of life for
One of the worst consequences of converting the federal government to a national security state has been the stultification or warping of the consciences of the American people. With unwavering allegiance to the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency, all too many Americans have sacrificed their sense of right
Whenever some foreign regime that is independent of the U.S. Empire goes after dissenters, U.S. officials trot out the First Amendment to show how different the United States is. Here, people are free to criticize government officials without fear of being put in jail or otherwise punished for exercising their free speech rights, they proudly
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. It goes without saying that the Constitution called into existence a government with few, limited powers. That was the purpose of enumerating the powers of the federal government. If the Constitution was bringing into existence a government of unlimited or omnipotent powers, then there
It is amazing to me that President Trump has pardoned some people whom he considered heroic while continuing to leave Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, two genuine heroes, in the lurch. Assange, of course, is getting the worst of it, given the brutal conditions under which US and British officials have incarcerated him in England. But it still
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. In the words of Ronald Reagan, here we go again. The unbelievable hatred that Democrats, liberals, progressives, and the mainstream press have toward President Trump continues to consume them, with the latest manifestation being a second impeachment of President Trump, just a few days
El Washington Post ha publicado un extenso artículo en el que pide que la OTAN se enfrente a un nuevo enemigo oficial: China. El artículo está escrito por Sara Bjerg Moller, profesora adjunta de la Escuela de Diplomacia y Relaciones Internacionales de la Universidad de Seton Hall. Sostiene que después de 30 años de perder a la Unión Soviética como
Una de las peores consecuencias de la conversión del gobierno federal en un estado de seguridad nacional ha sido el embrutecimiento o la deformación de las conciencias del pueblo americano. Con una lealtad inquebrantable al Pentágono, a la Agencia Central de Inteligencia y a la Agencia de Seguridad Nacional, demasiados americanos han sacrificado
Cada vez que algún régimen extranjero independiente del imperio de EEUU persigue a los disidentes, los funcionarios de EEUU sacan a relucir la Primera Enmienda para demostrar lo diferente que es Estados Unidos. Aquí, la gente es libre de criticar a los funcionarios del gobierno sin temor a ser encarcelada o castigada de otra manera por ejercer sus
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