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Stephen M Walt: Countries Should Mind Their Own Business

by Steven Woskow | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog

"As A.J.P. Taylor once archly observed, leaders in the 19th century “fought ‘necessary’ wars and killed thousands; the idealists of the 20th century fought ‘just’ wars and killed millions.” Stephen M. Walt (professor of international relations at Harvard University)...

The Great Gareth Porter on the Woodrow Wilson Flu Epidemic of 1918

by Scott Horton | Apr 3, 2020 | Blog

He's not just the father of American Fascism, German Nazism, Soviet Communism, Chinese Communism, World War II, the American empire and the Bush family fortune. Wilson was also responsible for the great "Spanish" flu epidemic of 1918 and 1919. I sure hope there's such...

1917

by Sheldon Richman | Jan 20, 2020 | Blog

I've long thought that if you want to see through the deceptive camouflage to the truest essence of the state, you need to study the Great War, renamed World War I after the 20-year intermission between it and World War War II. As you study the prelude to the war that...

Charles Burris’s World War II and Cold War Historical Bibliographies

by Scott Horton | Jan 2, 2020 | Blog

The great Charles Burris of LewRockwell.com is my favorite revisionist "conspiracy" historian of the 20th century. I was previously very interested in these topics before being consumed by the terror wars in our current era. Charles has compiled a lifetime of...

American Conservatives Are the Forgotten Critics of the Atomic Bombing of Japan

by Barton Bernstein | Aug 13, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

“The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul,” he wrote. “The only difference between this and the use of gas (which President Franklin D. Roosevelt had barred as a first-use weapon in World War II) is the fear of...

Sheldon Richman From 1991 ‘Ancient History’: US Conduct in the Middle East Since World War II and the Folly of Intervention

by Scott Horton | Jul 22, 2019 | Blog

Check out this magnificent thing that Sheldon Richman wrote back in August 1991 about "Uncle Sam" ruining everything in the Middle East since back when the U.S. took over for the British.

Liberty in America During the Great War

by Sheldon Richman | Nov 11, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman

There’s always plenty for libertarians to complain about in our troubled world, but in many respects, things could be much worse. I’m thinking particularly of how the U.S. government punished dissent before, during, and even after America’s participation in World War...

Armistice Day

by Sheldon Richman | Nov 10, 2017 | Blog

Veterans Day, which is tomorrow but is observed today, used to be called Armistice Day, marking the end of the shooting in World War I. The armistice between the Allies and Germany was signed a little after 5 a.m. on Nov. 11, 1918, but wasn't to take effect until...

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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...

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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...

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Politics IS Spiritual Warfare w/Buck Johnson

Buck is back to discuss how we view politics and spirituality since discovering Orthodoxy.

Protecting Vested Interests

"There were and there will always be people whose selfish ambitions demand protection for vested interests and who hope to derive advantage from measures restricting competition. Entrepreneurs grown old and tired and the decadent heirs of people who succeeded in the...

From Savagery to Civilization

"The market economy is a man-made mode of acting under the division of labor. But this does not imply that it is something accidental or artificial and could be replaced by another mode. The market economy is the product of a long evolutionary process. It is the...

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