Mark Perry talks about General Lloyd Austin, Biden's pick for Secretary of Defense. Austin is a military man through and through, but he isn't your run-of-the-mill war hawk, explains Perry—instead, Austin has shown himself to be a strong advocate for diplomacy and...
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12/18/20 Tim Shorrock: the Prospects for Peace with North Korea
Tim Shorrock analyzes the prospects for peace on the Korean peninsula under the upcoming Biden administration. President Trump, he and Scott agree, made some promising moves toward detente between North Korea, South Korea and the United States, shaking up the status...
Lloyd Austin Represents ‘Business As Usual’
Libertarian educator Tom Woods famously quipped that “no matter who you vote for you end up with John McCain.” Unfortunately Woods was proven right for about the thousandth time this past week, as Washington again showed us that it is all about war. First, we learned...
Biden’s SecDef Is a War Profiteer
On COI #45, Kyle discusses Biden's pick for Secretary of Defense, Gen Lloyd Austin. Austin retired from the military four years ago. His recent departure from the military puts the civilian control of the military in question and will require Austin to get a waiver...
Loser Michele Flournoy
She always loses. Like that time she tripled and lost the war in Afghanistan. She could have been Obama's secretary of defense. The first woman(!) and everything. But no, she decided to wait so she could be appointed by Hillary Clinton and be a part of the big women...
12/4/20 Danny Sjursen: The Case Against Jake Sullivan
Danny Sjursen is back for a look at Biden's foreign policy team, in particular his new National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan. Sjursen says that Sullivan fits right in with many of Biden's other cabinet picks: extremely talented, well-credentialed, respectable...
Grading Candidates For Biden’s Foreign Policy Team
Robert Wright and Connor Echels at nonzero.org "Background: Flournoy, a candidate for secretary of defense, was an undersecretary of defense in the Obama administration, where she played a big role in designing the Afghanistan “surge.” She is perhaps best known for...
How Glenn Beck, the Iraq Wars, Jason Brennan, & Ron Paul Turned a Progressive Into a Libertarian
https://youtu.be/--o_9bgIbMU Free-market capitalism, the victory of social power and the economic means, is not only the only moral and by far the most productive system; it has become the only viable system for mankind in the industrial era. Its eventual triumph is...
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