By Bill Hellman, USN/SEAL (Ret) America’s often changing policy on travel to Cuba makes very little sense when you consider our trade and travel rules with other countries who have obvious human rights and political issues contrary to American values and laws. Our current policy went into effect mid- year in 2019 […]
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Washington Beyond the Headlines: The PRO Act Is a Con
By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor What a week…Impeachment…State of the Union (watch it here)…Iowa! Well, no matter how crazy the politicians make us, free market policy people keep working on issues and ideas that affect America, and the world. Read on for this week’s news… The PRO Act is a […]
Hold Russian officials responsible for political prisoners
Between Vladimir Putin’s aggression in Crimea and Ukraine, the attempted assassinations of former Russian spies on British soil, and Russia’s control of a large proportion of Europe’s energy supply, Russia provides Western liberals plenty of reasons to be concerned. But they must be careful not to neglect an important group of victims of authoritarian repression: […]
Let’s Get Horizontal… Sanctions
While economic sanctions have traditionally targeted entire countries, Clara Portela of the Center for European Policy Studies notes the rise of “horizontal sanctions,” which can target individuals and entities in order to make the sanctions weapon more precise. Horizontal sanctions have been employed over Syrian chemical weapons and Russian agents’ attempt to assassinate […]