While it is difficult to choose among them, arguably the most pernicious part of John Maynard Keynes' legacy is his misunderstanding of what savings and interest rates are, and how they related to the rest of the economy. These mistakes were passed on to his followers...
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News Roundup 6/18/2024
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 18, 2024 | News Roundup
Russia US and Canadian Warships Arrive in Cuba During Russian Naval Deployment AWC NATO Mulling Increasing Nuclear Deployments AWC China China Blamed as West Fuels Nuclear Buildup AWC Israel ‘Nothing Has Changed’ Since Israel Announced Limited Humanitarian Pause AWC...
Fiji Follies Mimic First World Navigation Problems
by Bill Buppert | Jun 18, 2024 | Blog
There are now eight (there were nine before this disaster) total patrol vessels in the navy of Fiji; this is simply negligence and lack of proper training much like the US Navy collisions in 2017. It is extraordinarily expensive to reconstitute a vessel that has...
China Blamed as West Fuels Nuclear Buildup
by Connor Freeman | Jun 17, 2024 | News
A recent report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) says China is undertaking a “significant” expansion and modernization of its nuclear arsenal and predicts Beijing could be on pace to obtain in 2030 an equal number of intercontinental...
US Concerned Israel Could Drag US Into War in Lebanon
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 17, 2024 | News
Washington fears a potential miscalculation could trigger a wider conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. US officials are increasingly concerned Israel is preparing for a large assault on Lebanon. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Hezbollah militants have exchanged...
US Sanctions Israel Group Attacking Aid Shipments
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 17, 2024 | News
Tzav 9 has targeted humanitarian aid trucks traveling through the West Bank to Gaza The US blacklisted an Israeli organization for interfering with aid shipments headed to Gaza. The group, Tzav 9, demands that no aid enter the Strip until all Israeli hostages are...
Israel Claims to Open Aid Corridor Near Rafah
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 17, 2024 | News
A spokesman for the Israeli military downplayed the move, saying there would be no ceasefire or change in policy Israel announced on Sunday that it would pause military operations during daylight hours along a seven-mile stretch of road in Gaza to relieve a backlog of...

Putin Makes Public Peace Offer to Ukraine
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 17, 2024 | News
The Russian leader said there could be an immediate pause to hostilities Russian President Vladimir Putin laid out four conditions for Ukraine that he said would lead to an immediate ceasefire and, ultimately, an end to the conflict. According to the Kremlin, Kiev’s...
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Richman Interviewed on “Ideas Having Sex”
Chris Kaufman interviewed me about my book What Social Animals Owe to Each Other on his podcast Ideas Having Sex. Listen here or on your podcast platform.
US Navy Follies: The Other Ghost Fleet
The US Navy and Marines have not conducted an amphibious assault on contested beach since Inchon in Korea (10-19 September 1950 although arguably the last major contested amphibious campaign in May of 1945 of Okinawa) and have practically abandoned surface maritime...
Anti-War Blog – Be Proud
Proud mother come and see what your soldier sons are doing, see them search crying children who no longer can walk the streets to go from home to school. They kidnap little boys, to torture or imprison. Maybe they shatter their arms and send them on their way. Cry for...
The Culture of Lying and Deceit in the US Army
It's not just the Army and all the services practice this level of institutional cravenness and dishonesty. Deceit and covering up errors is a long time practice in the US uniformed armed forces. The article is older but more true over time. The gravest peril of the...
Manned Tanks: Stop Building These Things
Arguably one of the best manned tanks ever made, the refurbished M1 Abrams is not faring well in the Ukraine and it is estimated the UKR forces have lost 20 of the 31 tanks supplied to them. This is not only a result of inadequate training, immature doctrine and...
Lead-bottom: McHale’s Navy Comes of Age in the 21st Century
USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE-11) 2020 The US Navy continues to go the way of the Royal Navy from a storied force in history to a surface fleet plagued with problems and seemingly incapable of getting anything right as we have documented in these pages at the...
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