The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Death of Free Speech in America? You can thank Israel and its many friends There should be little doubt in anyone’s mind that the “wag the dog” relationship between the United States and Israel has done terrible damage to American institutions and constitutional liberties. The US bipartisan unconditional support of the ongoing Israeli genocide of the Palestinian people has not gone unnoticed by the rest of the world which now despises America’s corrupt political system and its increasing bizarre and out of touch leadership. There were  even reports  this past week that Washington and Tel Aviv have been discussing shipping upwards of two million Palestinians to Sudan and Somalia, two of the most violent places on earth, to permit the development of Trump Gaza resort and the annexation of the rest of historic Palestine by Israel. To be sure, the cancer at the heart of the Israel-US relationship, if one might even call it that, has been in place for a long time as Amer...

  The End of "Pax Americana"... ... and the Dawn of a New Era of Great Power Competition in a Multi-Polar World Julius Ruechel I shall open this essay with a deceptively simply question that has haunted humanity since the dawn of civilization… a question that is about to become extremely relevant again as we transition from the long relative stability of the American-led post-WWII global order to a much harsher, more volatile, high-stakes multi-polar world: Is it better to be a sovereign nation or a province within an empire? One of the central pillars of classical liberalism is that a  nation  — a group of people united by a shared ancestry, history, language, or geographic boundary —  should govern itself, free from outside interference (a.k.a. self-determination) . That core belief lies at the very heart of most of the intense geopolitical struggles that defined much of 20th-century history. This noble classical liberal ideal emerged as a reaction to living under ...