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Wilson’s Folly, The Washington Hegemon and Why There Is Still No Peace On Earth
Another Christmas has passed and there is still no peace on earth.
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It’s Time To “Allocate”, Mr. President-Elect
For crying out loud, Mr.
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It’s Time To “Allocate”, Mr. President-Elect
For crying out loud, Mr.
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It’s Time To “Allocate” Mr. President-Elect
For crying out loud, Mr.
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Don’t Stop Now, Elon! Take Names And Kick Ass Among The Porkulous Authors
Who in the hell wrote this pork-laden monster?
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Now Comes Trump’s Turn In The Economic Dunk Tank, Part 2
In Part 1 we identified the $5 trillion flood of printing press money that financed the Covid relief spend-a-thons, thereby turning what would otherwise…
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Now Comes Trump’s Turn In The Economic Dunk Tank, Part 1
We have had two presidential terms in a row in which the praise and blame for economic results got stood on its head.
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The Syrian Fiasco: A Case Of The “Empire First” Folly In Spades
If there was ever a moment that laid bare the utter stupidity and futility of Washington’s Empire First policy it surely emerged last week in the…
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The Syrian Fiasco: A Case Of The “Empire First” Folly In Spades
If there was ever a moment that laid bare the utter stupidity and futility of Washington’s Empire First policy it surely is the smoking ruins of Syria…
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The Syrian Fiasco, Part 1
About 17 years ago the insufferable former general, Wesley Clark, reported on a talk he once had in the Pentagon:
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Memo To Musk & Ramaswamy: How To Cut $2 Trillion of Fat, Muscle And Bone—The Complete Plan
PART 1 The original DOGE goal of $2 trillion of budget savings is crucial to the very future of constitutional democracy and capitalist prosperity in…
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Memo To Musk & Ramaswamy: How To Cut The Bone By $1.1 Trillion, Part 13
The cut-the-bone savings for FY 2029 are summarized in the table below and are then explained and amplified in the sections which follow.
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