Russia The Pentagon met with leaders of arms makers on Wednesday to discuss increasing the supply ability. [Link] Two US lawmakers travel to Kyiv. [Link] Russia says Ukraine carried out a cross-border helicopter attack. [Link] Russia threatens to deploy nukes to the...
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4/7/22 Dave DeCamp on Russia’s Pivot East and the Overt Western Information War
by Scott Horton | Apr 15, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Dave DeCamp returned for another Antiwar Radio last Sunday to update us on the Russian war in Ukraine. DeCamp and Scott talk about the apparent Russian strategy of using operations in the North to draw Ukrainian forces away from the East. They...
TGIF: Shades of Gray in the Russia-Ukraine War
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 15, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
If you're looking for morality tales — clashes between the clearly good and the clearly bad — I suggest you look elsewhere than to the geopolitical theater. There we find only conflicts between shades of darker gray. This seems to have been the case throughout...
US Claims Russia to Blame for Yemen Food Shortages, Praises Saudi Role
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Apr 14, 2022 | News Roundup
A senior US official has accused Russia of driving food shortages in Yemen and around the world, suggesting Moscow is to blame for rapidly rising prices. The Kremlin rejected the charge, instead citing American sanctions as a leading cause of starvation.
Real Wages Continue to Fall as the Fed Scrambles
by Ryan McMaken | Apr 14, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
According to a new report released Wednesday by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Consumer Price Index increased in March by 8.6 percent, measured year over year (YOY). This is the largest increase in more than forty years. To find a higher rate of CPI inflation,...
US Escalates Support for Ukraine With Training on New Weapons
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 13, 2022 | News Roundup
US troops in Europe will begin training Ukrainian forces on howitzers and radars. The systems will be transferred to Ukraine as a part of the $800 million arms package President Joe Biden authorized on Wednesday. The US scaled back its exercises with Ukrainian forces...
Biden, Harris Among Officials Considered for Potential Visit to Kiev
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 13, 2022 | News Roundup
The White House is discussing sending a senior official to Kiev. Potentially President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris could make the trip. According to sources speaking with Politico, it was more likely that Secretary of State Antony Blinken or Secretary...
America’s Exceptional Amnesia (About Those War Criminals…)
by Laurie Calhoun | Apr 13, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The top-ranking U.S. diplomat, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, recently denounced Russian president Vladimir Putin as a war criminal, which has resulted in a marked uptick in the usage of that term throughout the media. Putin decided to invade Ukraine in February...
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The Brief Case for Pacifism – Bryan Caplan, Ph.D.
“My case for pacifism, to recap, comes down to three simple premises. The first two are empirical: Premise #1: The short-run costs of war are clearly awful. [Empirical claim about immediate effects of war]. Premise #2: The long-run benefits of war are highly...
Why We Should Study China
I would posit that there is no civilization so utterly foreign to Americans than China. Often, American impressions of China are informed by preconceptions, myth, and fear of the other. For the average American, the sum of all knowledge about China is derived...
Kennedy Tonight
Tonight I'll be back on Kennedy Nation talking central banking and war. Update:
Cuban Missile Crisis Things
This old New Yorker piece about Curtis LeMay has some details about the Missile Crisis that I did not know and want to save here for someday. So we all already knew that 1: the USSR did already have operational short and medium range missiles in Cuba, but Khrushchev...
Happy April Glaspie Day!
Thank you, Julian Assange: SADDAM'S MESSAGE OF FRIENDSHIP TO PRESIDENT BUSH Date:1990 July 25, 12:46 (Wednesday) Canonical ID:90BAGHDAD4237_a Original Classification:SECRET Current Classification:SECRET Handling Restrictions-- Not Assigned -- Character Count:13633...
Call Your Congressmen and Senators Re Yemen War Powers Resolution
In the House it's HJ Res 87, in the Senate it's SJ Res 54. Call 833 STOP WAR and they will connect you directly to your representatives. If you have a Democratic Congressman, tell them the President said he wants to end this war. He needs us to support him on this to...
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