109 Articles tagged with: Foreign Affairs

• Is Industry For or Against the Paris Climate Agreement?

  In his speech withdrawing from the Paris climate agreement, Donald Trump cited an econometric study by National Economic Research Associates. The study, which is both credible and alarming, speculated that meeting the emissions targets could cost … Read Article

• The Classic Path to the Inevitable Result: Venezuela Succumbs to Dictatorship

  This week, the opposition forces in Venezuela are still in the streets, struggling with government forces, to protest last week’s lurch of Socialist President Nicolas Maduro’s government toward dictatorship. Thousands of people blocked the mai… Read Article

• How Hungarian Milk Explains Brexit

  A conversation I had a dozen years ago in Hungary about that country’s milk helps explain why the British voted to leave the European Union.

  As part of the Hungarians’ efforts to transform their economy after communism, they planned to… Read Article

• Ayn Rand’s Thoughts on Israel

  On the anniversary of Israel's founding on May 14 1948, we can turn to Ayn Rand for insights about why such an economically successful state with an open society is so hated by its neighbors.

   

  East-West conflict and Israel

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• Europe, Assimilation, and Immigration

  Europe says it will take in its new immigrants—is Europe ready to become a melting pot?

  Meanwhile, huge numbers overran Europe's borders in the last month, looking for the good life—are the immigrants ready to practice the virtues that… Read Article

• Universal Equality and Nationalism in the European Refugee Crisis

  The European migration crisis has exposed the profound contradictions in the European Union. Faced with unprecedented numbers of illegal immigrants, the Europeans have responded by lurching from declaring open arms to erecting internal walls to ke… Read Article

• China is Getting Rich and It's Wonderful

  If you read about China in the American press, you may read of bad air, or over-building, or ill-treatment of activists, or the Spratly Islands.

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• Obama disproves his own assumptions about Iran

   Barack Obama is pushing for a nuclear weapons agreement with Iran because he believes “the more people interact with open societies, the more they will want to be part of an open society,” according to former NATO ambassador Ivo Daalder (quo… Read Article

• Leftist Delusions, Honduras and Alleged Freedom Failures

   A recent piece by Mike LaSusa entitled “ The Nightmare Libertarian Project to Turn This Central American Country Into Ayn Rand's Paradise ,” published on Alternet and reposted on Salon , is a disjointed collection of out-of-context semi-fa… Read Article

• Israeli Independence and Libertarian Blindness

  May 6, 2014 — When Israel declared its independence 66 years ago, pursuant to a UN resolution, David Ben Gurion promised the new state “will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of relig… Read Article

• Obama Endangers Israel

   March 7, 2014 — President Obama’s ignorance, arrogance, and warped morality are endangering Israel and making another Middle East war more likely. 

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• The challenges of the 21st century

  Ed Hudgins and William R Thomas vlog on the prominent challenges of the 21st century, including nationalism and religious fanaticism.   

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• Margaret Thatcher's Compassion

   April 8, 2013 -- A criticism of the late, great Margaret Thatcher, prime minister of Great Britain from 1979 to 1990, echoes the digs at her political friend and ally Ronald Reagan: that she was an uncaring, dogmatic political ideologue. In 19… Read Article

• Hugo Chavez: Dead Demagogue

  The world is thankfully rid of Hugo Chávez, the president and strongman demagogue of Venezuela. But it is not rid of the problems he exploited—and often created—nor of the morally shameless individuals who pimped for him in the United State… Read Article

• Weighing War: How to Think about Iraq and North Korea

  April 1, 2003 -- The United States stands at a time of unparalleled military opportunity and danger. There is opportunity because the U.S. military substantially outclasses every other military force in its technology and its reach. The United S… Read Article

• Outsourcing

  Question: What has " Objectivism " got to opine on the outsourcing of American jobs to third world countries?

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• The Democrats' Model War

   

  The 2006 U.S. elections, which put the Democrats in charge of the House and Senate, were widely described in media as a referendum on the Iraq war. Intense media scrutiny had resulted in critical reports on pre-war intelligence, the d… Read Article

• Former KGB Officer Cites Soviet Plan to Sabotage D.C.

  WASHINGTON, D.C. July 9, 2010 — In the mid-1960s the Soviets planted a "sleeper" agent in Washington, D.C. whose main "job" was to "blow up the power line grids" and "poison water supplies" if the United States got close to a military co… Read Article

• War: An Objectivist View

  Consider two horrific acts. Number one: a depressed father enters his living room, shoots his wife and children, and then himself. Number two: a depressed widow walks into a hotel, she presses a trigger, and she and everyone else within 30 yards… Read Article

• Make Trade, Not War

  THE TWENTIETH CENTURY SAW more deaths from wars than at any time in human history—some 15 million in World War I and 60 million in World War II to name but the worst examples. But it also highlighted a force that has and can continue to replac… Read Article