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This Was Mises’s Main Case for Peace
This Was Mises’s Main Case for Peace War only destroys. Peace, on the other hand, creates. War is absolutely devastating. There is no dancing around that fact. Not only is it responsible for the loss of countless human lives, it also leaves an immeasurable amount of physical and emotional destruction in its wake. The market […]
Mike Pence’s Middle East Tour: Outright Pressure and Threats as Foreign Policy Tools
Mike Pence’s Middle East Tour: Outright Pressure and Threats as Foreign Policy Tools Jordan’s King Abdullah II wants Washington to “rebuild trust “after US President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The king believes that East Jerusalem must be the capital of Palestine. According to him, from now on the US has a “major challenge to overcome”. “Friends occasionally […]
How to Sell Invasions to Americans
How to Sell Invasions to Americans Here’s an automated email that I received on January 9th from the neoconservative Foreign Policymagazine’s publicity department, pumping the magazine’s five top stories of that day, all of which suggest that the same U.S. Establishment which had deceived Americans into supporting their country’s invading Iraq, Libya, and other countries […]
Pictorial: American Animosity Ambling Amuck
Pictorial: American Animosity Ambling Amuck This Russia Collusion thing has been going on for one year now. I’m not interested in debating whether or not Trump colluded. I am interested in examining the massive hypocrisy emanating from our government, and on display daily in living color from MSM whores, prostitutes, traitors, teleprompter readers. Who among […]
Trump’s Saudi Scheme Unravels
Trump’s Saudi Scheme Unravels President Trump and his son-in-law bet that the young Saudi crown prince could execute a plan to reshape the Mideast, but the scheme quickly unraveled revealing a dangerous amateur hour, writes ex-British diplomat Alastair Crooke. Aaron Miller and Richard Sokolsky, writing in Foreign Policy, suggest “that Mohammed bin Salman’s most notable […]
America: The Dictatress of the World
America: The Dictatress of the World On July 21, 1821, John Quincy Adams, who would go on to become the sixth president of the United States, warned that if America were ever to abandon its founding principle of non-interventionism in foreign affairs, she might well become the dictatress of the world. Adams issued his warning […]
Why Decentralized Militias Matter
Why Decentralized Militias Matter In 1852, Abraham Lincoln gave a speech in Springfield, Illinois in which he talked about the attempts at required militia training. He described how much of a joke the citizens made of any attempt at mandatory militia training. “No man,” Lincoln said, citing the rules, “is to wear more than five […]
The American Empire and Economic Collapse
The American Empire and Economic Collapse Despite the widespread hope among libertarians, classical liberals, non-interventionists, progressive peaceniks, and all those opposed to the US Empire that it may have some of its murderous reins pulled in with the election of Donald Trump, it appears that such optimism has now been dashed. While the hope for a […]
Stockman to Trump: It’s the Economy, Stupid
Stockman to Trump: It’s the Economy, Stupid In a recent appearance on CNN, David Stockman suggested that Trump might best spend some time actually addressing economic issues instead of the administration’s travel ban for immigrants from Middle Eastern countries, which Stockman called “a giant misfire.” Pointing out that Americans are far, far more likely to be struck […]
It’s Time to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses!
It’s Time to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses! And so it’s on… James Traub, at Foreign Policy.com, has called for the “elites to rise up against the ignorant masses.” In a spectacular display of the very ignorance against which he issues his call to arms, Traub shows how thoroughly infected the establishment is with their group-think. […]
Always Attack the Wrong Country
Always Attack the Wrong Country Chor Boogie There are numerous tactics available to those who aim to make problems worse while pretending to solve them, but misdirection is always a favorite. The reason to want to make problems worse is that problems are profitable—for someone. And the reason to pretend to be solving them is […]
How Neocons Banished Realism
How Neocons Banished Realism The grip that neocons and liberal interventionists have on Official Washington’s opinion circles is now so strong that “realists” who once provided an important counterbalance have been almost banished from foreign policy debates, a dangerous dilemma that James W Carden explores. In a widely remarked upon article for the online version of Foreign […]
PBS Joins the MSM’s Syria-Russia Bias
PBS Joins the MSM’s Syria-Russia Bias Mainstream U.S. media systematically excludes points of view on world affairs that deviate from Official Washington’s “group think.” With no lessons learned from the Iraq-WMD debacle, the MSM only lets on establishment or right-wing pundits with conformist points of view on crises with Syria and Russia, notes Rick Sterling. PBS Newshour is considered high-quality journalism by many […]
We created Islamic extremism: Those blaming Islam for ISIS would have supported Osama bin Laden in the ’80s
We created Islamic extremism: Those blaming Islam for ISIS would have supported Osama bin Laden in the ’80s Jingoists conveniently forget the West’s Cold War strategy was to arm the Islamic extremists that became al-Qaida (Credit: AP/Dennis Cook) History takes no prisoners. It shows, with absolute lucidity, that the Islamic extremism ravaging the world today […]
Harper’s Revolutionary Foreign Policy
Harper’s Revolutionary Foreign Policy Bellicose words, pandering flip flops, just one aim: Win votes at home. Shredded by vote-driven strategy, Canada’s foreign policy has no real conservative agenda, no moral centre. Canadian flag image via Shutterstock. No Canadian prime minister has put his personal stamp on foreign affairs more than Stephen Harper. And no prime minister has […]
