Last week, mainstream media outlets gave minimal attention to the news that the U.S. Naval station in Virginia Beach had spilled an estimated 94,000 gallons of jet fuel into a nearby waterway, less than a mile from the Atlantic Ocean. While the incident was by no means as catastrophic as some other pipeline spills, it underscores an Read More…
Foreign Policy
Education And Peace: The 30% Of Americans Who Can Locate North Korea On Map More Likely To Seek Peace
In April 2014, just as the Ukraine conflict (and proxy civil war) was hitting its climax, in the process undermining US-Russian relations for years, some 2,066 Americans were asked to show where the Ukraine was on a map. The result, while leaving something to be desired, was not terrible. Fast forward to this weekend, when the Read More…
The U.S. Trying to Make War — Not Peace — In Syria
The U.S. has long asserted itself as a peacemaker in the ongoing war in Syria, attempting to paint the country’s president, Bashar al-Assad, as the root cause of the conflict. At the same time, the United States government maintains that peace would be impossible without American interference, which, of course, comes with the added aim Read More…
The American Contradiction: Global Perpetual War to Prove We Love Liberty
Editor’s Note: Even when considering countries such as Saudi Arabia, the largest human rights violator on the planet, the US does not have a right to police the world and impose its empirical agenda onto another country under the guise of protection, or for any reason. Yet, as the US currently does just that, it Read More…
U.S. and Saudi Arabia to Negotiate Billions in Arms Deals
Administration officials are attempting to get tens of billions of dollars in arms deals to Saudi Arabia approved ahead of President Trump’s visit to the country later this month, Reuters reports. Saudi Arabia will be the initial stop on Trump’s first official trip overseas as president, where he hopes to also sell his counter-terrorism strategy Read More…
The Unites States — Not Russia — Is the Biggest Threat to Peace in Syria
The U.S. has long asserted itself as a peacemaker in the ongoing war in Syria, attempting to paint the country’s president, Bashar al-Assad, as the root cause of the conflict. At the same time, the United States government maintains that peace would be impossible without American interference, which, of course, comes with the added aim Read More…






