On April 28, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told the U.N. that North Korea “must dismantle its nuclear missile programs” before the US “can even consider talks.”* Sounds reasonable. Why hasn’t the Kim Jong-Un regime responded with open arms and shouts of joy for this generous and fair-minded proposal from Uncle Sam? Maybe it is … Continue reading Why is North Korea Being So Unreasonable?
Last Thursday's wanton attack on a Syrian air field by the US and its bellicose actions toward North Korea have brought to the forefront the real cost of candidate Trump's landslide victory last November. Unlike most laymen, accountants, and financial analysts, economists look at cost differently. For economists, cost or more specifically, "opportunity cost," means … Continue reading The Cost of a Trump Presidency
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 less meddlesome US foreign policy … Continue reading The American Empire and Economic Collapse
If there had been any doubt that the land of the free and home of the brave is now a totalitarian society, the revelations that its Chief Executive Officer has been spied upon while campaigning for that office and during his brief tenure as president should now be allayed. President Trump joins the very crowded … Continue reading Welcome to Totalitarian America, President Trump!
Review: Charles A. Beard, American Foreign Policy in the Making, 1932-1940: A Study in Responsibilities. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1946. Introduction Last year, 2016, marked the 70th anniversary of the publication of Charles Beard's masterful study of United States foreign policy prior to the nation's disastrous entrance into the Second World War, American … Continue reading Charles A. Beard, “American Foreign Policy in the Making, 1932-1940″*
Although history does not exactly repeat itself, it does provide parallels and sometimes quite ominous ones. Such is the case with the current U.S. Presidential election and the one which occurred one hundred years earlier. The dominating question which hung over the 1916 campaign was whether the country would remain neutral in regard to the … Continue reading The Donald Versus Killary: War or Peace?
Executive orders, undeclared wars, drone hits, assassination of citizens and non-citizens alike, the overthrow of foreign regimes, domestic spying, the abetting of known criminal activities through pardons, economic planning, opening borders, monetary manipulations are just some of the nefarious activities that routinely emanate from the most dangerous political office that the world has ever painfully … Continue reading Presidential Dictatorship
On May 19, the House of Reprehensibles passed a proposal that would essentially ban the display of Confederate flags from national cemeteries. The amendment was added to a Veteran Affairs spending bill. Not surprisingly, House Speaker Paul Ryan allowed the measure to be voted upon in hopes of not disrupting the appropriations process. Yes, by … Continue reading Long Live the Flags of Dixie!
One of the biggest misconceptions held among the independent and alternative media is that of feudalism and the political, economic and social arrangements which characterized that unfairly maligned epoch. Derogatory language is often used to describe feudal times with commentators often suggesting that today’s political and financial elites seek to return mankind to such a … Continue reading Feudalism: Was it so Bad?
Antonius Aquinas 