[Editor’s Note: Yesterday I printed some excerpts from Branco Marcetic’s domestic policy post-mortem on the Biden presidency, from Jacobin magazine. Today I offer a few excerpts — even more damning — from Marcetic’s assessment of Biden’s disastrous (and to me, frightening) foreign policy.] EXCERPTS: There is no ambiguity about President Joe Biden’s foreign policy…
by Carus Michaelangelo Reprinted under a Creative Commons License from the Mises Wire of 12/12/24 BOOK REVIEW: [Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, by Scott Horton, The Libertarian Institute, 2024; 690 pp.] “A fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing.” Scott Horton…
The following — a recent episode of The Chris Hedges Report — is a fascinating brief discussion of Herman Melville’s novel Moby Dick, by two men well-prepared to understand its relevance to Amercia today. Chris Hedges is one of America’s great public intellectuals and Nathaniel Philbrick is the author of In The Heart of…
Here’s a snippet from the conversation in the video below, between Brian Becker and Eugene Puryear (transcribed by me from the Youtube transcript). You will notice that it is a version of history that you’ve likely never heard before, certainly not in our current Cold War II climate. The complete discussion (the whole video)…
” … or can’t we at least begin a conversation? Do we now have such a distorted and desperate view of the other side? That we won’t even speak to them? To see conflict as inevitable has become the cornerstone of U.S foreign policy.” These are the words of Robery F. Kennedy Jr, about…