Four Years After Gadhafi, Libya Is a Failed State
Nearly four years after NATO-backed rebels toppled the former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, the North Africa country has plunged into chaotic unrest. The failure of last year’s election to achieve political unity in Libya was most evident when Fajr Libya, or...
ISIS Stages Counterattack in Ramadi; 145 Killed across Iraq
With Looming Financial War, Bitcoin Ushers in Peaceful Insurrection
In the aftermath of Edward Snowden's revelations of NSA mass surveillance, global outrage ensued, degrading the credibility of the US before the rest of the world. Subsequent reports revealed how the intelligence agency intercepted German Chancellor Angela Merkel's...
The Spell of Interventionism
In his biography of Thomas Jefferson, Old Right bohemian Albert Jay Nock had this to say about Jefferson’s seemingly unyielding faith in the benefits of education as a check against authoritarianism: “Throughout his life, Mr. Jefferson consistently maintained that...
406 Killed in Iraq as Intensified Fighting Continues in Anbar
Politics, Bullshit, and Ukraine
Once in a while a book appears that forces us to rethink the previous cognitive patterns. To use the celebrated phrase from Thomas S. Kuhn’s influential, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), it introduces the paradigm shift. Kuhn’s explored scientific...
Autocrats United Against Yemen
The latest war in the Middle East is now well underway in Yemen, where airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition have killed hundreds and plunged the Arab world’s poorest country into a deepening humanitarian crisis. The target of the strikes are Yemen’s Houthi...
Over 200 Yazidis Freed; 184 Killed across Iraq
The Herd Mind
Randolph Bourne famously wrote, “War is the health of the State.” This has long been the byword for anti-war, anti-state libertarians, and rightly so. But Bourne did not mean exactly what most libertarians take this phrase to mean. To understand the maxim's original...


