US Marines Board Iranian Tanker As Trump Teases 'Final Stages' Of Talks, But Tehran Warns 'New War' On Horizon

In an effort to make the latest Israel-Lebanon ceasefire agreement seem like it was doing something more than the half dozen that came before, there was talk during negotiations of Israel agreeing to “symbolic” withdrawals from small segments of Lebanon as a good faith gesture. It wouldn’t impact the overall occupation, but it’d be something […]

EU Imposes Drastic Tariffs on Chinese Goods: Is A Trade War Looming? Submitted by Thomas Kolbe Tensions in international trade policy are escalating on multiple fronts. After the U.S. Supreme Court initially declared the tariff regime implemented by President Donald Trump since April of last year unlawful, it appears the administration has explored new ways to stabilize its tariff policy going forward. The signs on the international trade front continue to point toward turmoil. Not least, it is the ramped-up Chinese export machine that is increasingly in the crosshairs of U.S. protectionism...

Welfare-Warfare State Reform Is Not Freedom Authored by Jacob Hornberger via The Future of Freedom Foundation, The libertarian movement can be divided into two basic groups: libertarians who call for reforming welfare-warfare state programs and libertarians who call for dismantling welfare-warfare state programs. I fall within the latter group. Why? Because I want to be free. Reform doesn’t get me freedom. At best it gets me a better serfdom. That’s nice, but it’s not want I want for the rest of my life. I want to be free, and only by dismantling...