“The Clintons’ activities outside politics are both inspiring and worrying…”
Source: Bill and Hillary Inc.
Archive for the ‘Foreign policy’ Category
It’s war, stupid
30
Sep
“The year was 1956: the icy winds of the cold war were blowing across the political landscape. And it was a presidential election year, pitting the internationalist Republican Dwight Eisenhower against Adlai Stevenson, the darling of the Democratic party’s left wing. The “isolationist” faction of the GOP, led by Sen. Robert A. Taft, had been […]”
Source: Libertarianism and War – Antiwar.com Original
My Sept. 27 interview about Trump, Clinton and presidential politics
29
Sep
“As we have seen in the past 4 years and all throughout history, socialism doesn’t work. Quite frankly most of us understand the principle of redistribution of wealth is a robinhood effect. 6 years after the…”
Source: We’re Back! What’s Life Like Under A Trump Presidency
Donald Trump: the peace candidate
29
Sep
“For all Hillary Clinton’s reputation as a policy wonk, her debate performance consisted almost entirely of personal attacks. And while our media is out there proclaiming a Clinton ‘victory,’ their evaluation merely shows how distanced they are from ordinary Americans, who don’t revel in nastiness. Trump, on the other hand, although he allowed himself to …”
Source: The Debate: Trump’s Three Points for Peace – Antiwar.com Original by — Antiwar.com
The FBI’s political agenda
26
Sep
The Democrats are playing a dangerous game and the FBI is complicit with the warmongers in Congress.
“While we have gotten used to the neo-McCarthyite tactics employed by the Clinton campaign linking Donald Trump to the Kremlin, the whole disgraceful operation has reached a new low with the introduction of US law enforcement agencies into the mix. According to a report by Michael Isikoff – who has become the Judy Miller of …”
Source: The New Cold Warriors Sic the FBI on Donald Trump – Antiwar.com Original by — Antiwar.com
RFK’s Speechwriter for Trump
21
Sep
The Democratic Party has become something both JFK and RFK would deplore—the party of war.
Source: I Was RFK’s Speechwriter. Now I’m Voting for Trump. Here’s Why.
Nonsense from a European political insider
21
Sep
Every national government is responsible for protecting its people from foreign aggressors, and if they do not respect their own people’s individual rights, then it is time for a revolution—political or otherwise. The United States has no moral standing to intervene around the world.
“Former Danish prime minister and former NATO secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen says only the U.S. has the material and moral greatness to stop the slide into chaos, counter autocrats like Russia’s Vladimir Putin and foster peace.”
Source: The United States Must Be the World’s Policeman
America’s fall
20
Sep
“The year was 1955, the dawn of the cold war, and an old prophet was writing what would be his last book. It was a volume of history – The American Story, he called it – in which he reviewed the cavalcade of twists and turns that had brought us to that moment when we […]”
Source: America, the Helpless ‘Superpower’ – Antiwar.com Original
Wall Street and the federal government’s revolving door
18
Sep
For another perspective on the revolving door see Murray Rothbard’s monograph, Wall Street, Banks and American Foreign Policy.
“April 2015, Zero Hedge: “Gregg Berman will find a hospitable and well-paid position after spending 6 years defending the well-paying HFTs lobby. In all likelihood Berman will join the NY Fed’s shadow trading desk and the world’s most leveraged hedge fund, Citadel itself.”September 2016, WSJ: “Gregg Berman joins Citaldel.”
Source: The SEC’s Former Top “HFT Expert” Joins HFT Titan Citadel
Your tax dollars at work
16
Sep
“And we may be less safe now than before we made that investment.”
Source: America Has Spent Nearly $5 Trillion on Wars Since 9/11