2024 marked the 35th anniversary of the publication of Francis Fukuyama’s famous essay, “The End of History?” in The National Interest. Suffice to say, its thesis looks more wrong than ever. It must be acknowledged that Fukuyama’s arguments were somewhat more complex...
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News Roundup 12/31/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 31, 2024 | News Roundup
Ukraine Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Meets With HTS Leaders in Damascus AWC Biden Administration Announces Nearly $6 Billion in New Ukraine Aid AWC Israel Haaretz Calls for Israel To Stop Attacking Gaza Hospitals AWC Israeli Attacks Kill 27 More Palestinians in Gaza...
Production for Profit Is Production for People, part 2
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 31, 2024 | Blog, Economics
"In his capacity as a businessman a man is a servant of the consumers, bound to comply with their wishes. He cannot indulge in his own whims and fancies. But his customers’ whims and fancies are for him ultimate law, provided these customers are ready to pay for them....
White House Concerned New Syrian Government Targeting Minorities
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 30, 2024 | News
After working to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad, the US is now worried that the incoming government is targeting minority groups. Assad was deposed and replaced with Abu Mohammad al-Julani, the founder of al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria. Axios reports that...
COI #735: US Tells Ukraine to Pull Forces From Russia
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 30, 2024 | Conflicts of Interest
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Drones Run Amok
by Laurie Calhoun | Dec 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Drones, drones, everywhere drones. For a few weeks, clusters of drones of unknown provenance were recently seen flying in the skies above New Jersey. Local, state, and federal authorities claimed that they did not know whose drones they were. The expression “baseless...
U.S. Foreign Policy 101: Rebranding Villains into Partners
by Ted Snider | Dec 30, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Maybe Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), who is now the leader of Syria, really has changed. Maybe he has matured, as he told CNN, as if his years as an al-Qaeda terrorist leader were a youthful indiscretion. But the world cannot simply...
News Roundup 12/30/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 30, 2024 | News
Ukraine White House Tells Ukraine to Pull Its Demoralized Forces From Russia The Institute Lavrov Says Russia’s ‘Not Satisfied’ With Proposals From Trump Team To End Ukraine War AWC China China Sanctions More US Companies in Response to US Military Aid to Taiwan AWC...
Production for Profit Is Production for People
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 30, 2024 | Blog, Economics
"Profit and loss can be expressed in definite amounts of money. It is possible to ascertain in terms of money how much an individual has profited or lost. However, this is not a statement about this individual’s psychic profit or loss. It is a statement about a social...
White House Tells Ukraine to Pull Its Demoralized Forces From Russia
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 29, 2024 | News
The Joe Biden administration believes that Ukrainian forces are on the verge of a total loss in Russia’s Kursk Oblast and is now advising Kiev to pull its troops back. Reporting on Kiev’s losses in Kursk, the AP reports the Ukrainian forces have become “demoralized.”...