Russia Russia Warns Ukraine Cost for Peace Will Increase as War Drags On AWC US Gives Ukraine $3.9 Billion in ‘Direct Budgetary Aid’ AWC Israel Israel Sends Truck Full of Dead Palestinians Into Gaza AWC Hamas Names Yahya Sinwar as New Political Chief AWC Majority of...
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News Roundup 8/6/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 6, 2024 | News Roundup
Israel Israel Sends Truck Full of Dead Palestinians Into Gaza AWC Israel-Hamas Hostage Deal Talks on Hold After Haniyeh Assassination AWC Smotrich: It May Be ‘Moral and Justified’ for Israel To Starve 2 Million Palestinians to Death in Gaza AWC Middle East Israel...
Further China Reading
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Aug 3, 2024 | Blog
From a reader: “Hello Joseph. I just ordered your book, and I noticed it was short. I would like to know if there is an up to date book on American foreign policy towards China that you could recommend that is well-researched and truthful with good policy suggestions....
North Korean Defector Says Kim Is Willing to Talk to Trump
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 1, 2024 | News
A recent high-level North Korean defector said Pyongyang would be interested in talks with former-US President Donald Trump if he wins the November election. During his first term, Trump engaged Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un in negotiations that nearly secured major...
Israeli Killing of Hamas Political Chief Expected To Derail Ceasefire Talks
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 31, 2024 | News
Netanyahu had been working to sabotage the talks in the weeks leading up to his trip to Washington The Israeli assassination of Hamas’s political chief, Ismail Haniyeh, in the Iranian capital of Tehran is expected to derail negotiations for a hostage and Gaza...
The Trillion Dollar Social Security Trust Fund Robbery
by Thomas Eddlem | Jul 24, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
It may be the most successful financial swindle in human history, one more than a dozen times bigger than Bernie Madoff’s $65 billion swindle. By suppressing interest rates using federal Treasury bills, the Federal Reserve Bank has managed to deprive the Social...
Israeli Parliament Advances Legislation that Calls UN Aid Agency a ‘Terrorist’ Group
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 23, 2024 | News
The Israeli Knesset voted in favor of a series of bills that will shut down the UN aid agency for Palestinians (UNRWA). One piece of legislation will name UNRWA as a terrorist entity. On Tuesday, the Israeli legislature passed three bills targeting UNRWA. The...
Ticonderoga Leaves the Fleet: The US Surface Navy Continues to Shrink
by Bill Buppert | Jul 23, 2024 | Blog
The US Navy surface fleet continues to shrink. And every surface hull commissioned after the Arleigh Burke class in 1991 has been a failure. The Chinese Navy exceeds the US Navy in total warships deployed. What makes this even more astonishing is that the Chinese...
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Production for Profit Is Production for People, part 2
"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....
Production for Profit Is Production for People
"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...
Pseudo-Liberalism
"The detractors of liberty are in this sense right in calling it a 'bourgeois' issue and in blaming the rights guaranteeing liberty for being negative. In the realm of state and government, liberty means restraint imposed upon the exercise of the police power. "There...
Freedom and Competition
"The freedom of man under capitalism is an effect of competition. The worker does not depend on the good graces of an employer. If his employer discharges him, he finds another employer. The consumer is not at the mercy of the shopkeeper. He is free to patronize...
Do You Really Meme It?
I was going to write a comment on some current discourse, the usual diatribe of impulsive viral outrage invented by those who live online. A reaction to trending tantrums. The usual produce from memetards who vomit digital junk the algorithms, whether one follows them...
“Mature Capitalism” Ain’t Capitalism
"It would be correct to describe this state of affairs in this way: Today many or some groups of business are no longer liberal; they do not advocate a pure market economy and free enterprise, but, on the contrary, are asking for various measures of government...