Ryan McMaken discusses his recent articles for the Mises Institute about the future of U.S. dollar hegemony. He walks us through the dollar's history as global reserve currency, which began in the mid 20th century as an alternative to a direct gold standard. Still,...
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News Roundup 1/17/20
US News Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has issued two memos this year reorienting the Pentagon towards great power competition with China and Russia. [Link] The Air Force is looking to improve the Jan Mayen Airbase. The base is located in the Norwegian Sea between...
Year Zero 92: Soleimani Was An Imminent Threat, But Not To American Lives
The Trump administration has backed off of the narrative that Soleimani was in Baghdad to plot attacks on four American embassies, but they haven't addressed the imminent threat he truly posed. While it's true the Iranian general can't be credibly linked to the deaths...
The Grammar of the Soleimani Assassination
By now we've heard enough official explanations of Trump's assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and others to realize they are all nonsense. (And Secretary of State Mike Pompeo now admits it.) Trump killed Soleimani because, egged on by his unsavory friends...
1/10/20 Francis Boyle on the Real Reason to Impeach Trump
Francis Boyle explains why President Trump should be impeached—not for the charges of corruption and abuse of power in Ukraine, but for his war crimes in continuing the aggressive wars of the Bush and Obama administrations. Boyle thinks that Trump's behavior with...
1/10/20 Matthew Hoh on Who’s Really Responsible for American Casualties in Iraq
Scott talks to Matthew Hoh about the claim that General Soleimani and the Iranians were directly responsible for 600 American deaths in the war in Iraq, which supposedly would justify the general's recent assassination by President Trump. Hoh explains that although...
Come Home, America: Stop Policing the Globe and Put an End to Wars-Without-End
“Let us resolve that never again will we send the precious young blood of this country to die trying to prop up a corrupt military dictatorship abroad. This is also the time to turn away from excessive preoccupation overseas to the rebuilding of our own nation....
Trump’s Assassination Disaster
Is Trump yet ruing the day he lent his ear to the siren songs of the Iran-obsessed neocons? One can almost imagine the president, sitting in the makeshift situation room at Mar-a-Lago just a few days ago surrounded by the likes of Sen. Lindsey Graham, Mike Pompeo,...
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