Friday, June 27, 2014

TGIF: Smedley Butler and the Racket that Is War

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From 1898 to 1931, Smedley Darlington Butler was a member of the U.S. Marine Corps. By the time he retired he had achieved what was then th...
Wednesday, June 25, 2014

U.S.-Egyptian “Historic Partnership” Reeks with Hypocrisy

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Largely overshadowed by events in Iraq and Syria, the Obama administration is dropping its pretense at displeasure with the military junta ...
Friday, June 20, 2014

TGIF: The Middle East Harvests Bitter Imperialist Fruit

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The wall-to-wall coverage of the disintegration of Iraq ought to carry this credit: This bloodshed was made possible by the generosity of B...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

The Noninterventionists Told You So

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Contrary to popular belief, there is no satisfaction in being able to say, “I told you so.” This is especially so with Iraq, where recent e...
Monday, June 16, 2014

I Can't Get No Satisfaction

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It's funny. You'd think there'd be satisfaction in being able to say "I told you so" on Iraq. There isn't.

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American critics of U.S. foreign policy (as well as some neoconservative supporters) often refer to the United States as an empire. This is...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Press TV Interview

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Press TV interviewed me about U.S. policy toward Ukraine. You can listen here .
Tuesday, June 10, 2014

News Coverage Misleads American on the Bergdahl Swap

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In national-security matters, the news media couldn’t do a better job misinforming the public if they tried. The latest example is their po...
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Friday, June 06, 2014

TGIF: The Disaster that Is U.S. Foreign Policy

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We live in angry times. For evidence, turn on any news program. An awful lot of people, led by right-wing politicians and radio and TV ente...
Wednesday, June 04, 2014

Sgt. Bergdahl and the Fog of War

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The “fog of war” is a reference to the moral chaos on the battlefield as well as the rampant confusion. Individuals kill others for no othe...
Friday, May 30, 2014

TGIF: Trivial Dispute: Obama Versus the Interventionists

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American politics is largely a series of debates over unimportant details. These debates are conducted far above the fundamental level beca...

The Danger is Intervention, Not "Isolation"

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A lot of people are warning against America turning “isolationist.” We can dismiss the warnings—special pleadings, really—emanating from ot...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Revisionist History Day, 2014

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Today is  Revisionist History Day , what others call Memorial Day. Americans are supposed to remember the country's war dead while bei...
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Magic

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Are we so desperate for explanations of horrific acts like Elliot Rodger's murder spree that we are willing to accept scientistic pseudo...

TGIF: Immortal Keynes?

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Whatever you may think of Keynesian economics, you have to give it credit for one thing: its staying power.  Read about it here .
Sunday, May 25, 2014

A Further Thought for the Day

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Here's a passage I've always liked from Albert Jay Nock's Memoirs of a Superfluous Man : Another neighbour, a patriarchal old E...

Thought for the Day

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“When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don’t care if they are shot th...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

Op-ed: More U.S. Intervention in Libya?

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Except for the 2012 deadly attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission and CIA annex in Benghazi, Libya has dropped out of American news coverag...
Friday, May 16, 2014

TGIF: Rothbard's For a New Liberty

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In 1973, nine years before he published his magnum opus in political philosophy, The Ethics of Liberty , Murray Rothbard issued a comprehen...
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The Neoconservative Obsession with Iran

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Americans could be enjoying cultural and commercial relations with Iranians were it not for U.S. “leaders,” who are more aptly described as...