“Emotion, not genuine geopolitical insight, drives popular support for inflated defense spending.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-military-industrial-complexs-assault-on-liberty/
“At the end of the Korean War, both North and South Korea were poverty-ridden hellholes. But they took different routes. And got very different results.”
Read more: https://bonnerandpartners.com/trumps-trade-deals-are-a-futile-conceit/
“Millions of Americans are falling for a dangerous and destructive argument about the need for tariffs and other trade barriers.”
Read more: https://banyanhill.com/corporate-foreign-income/
“The key issue here: pension plans are almost universally toast.”
Read more: https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/the-latest-casualty-in-the-global-pension-catastrophe-is-23795/
“The findings support the idea that marijuana is an ‘exit drug,’ rather than a ‘gateway drug,’ as drug warriors used to claim.”
Read more: https://herb.co/marijuana/news/cbd-treat-addiction
“Price increases are ‘clearly a result of antisocial behavior by participants in the industry,’ he said.”
“Summarizing a half-century of conspiracy research, the Talbot and Douglass books together provide a wealth of persuasive evidence that elements of organized crime, individuals with CIA connections, and anti-Castro Cubans were probably participants in the assassination plot.”
Read more: https://www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-the-jfk-assassination-part-i-what-happened/
“Flattering Kim with a few meaningless comments designed to foster goodwill is absolutely mild in comparison with the tangible support the US lends to other dictatorships.”
Read more: https://www.rt.com/op-ed/429889-trump-kim-us-dictators/
“Even in the Trump era — when the press is openly clashing with a president — bombing still provides push-button presidential redemption.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/the-pro-war-media-deserve-criticism-not-sainthood/
“If the U.S. government will lift economic sanctions against North Korea if it ‘denuclearizes,’ why not lift the decades-old U.S. economic embargo against Cuba?”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/20/cuba-denuclearized-in-1962-why-continue-the-embargo/