War and Foreign Policy

When the USSR collapsed, it was hoped that Russia would develop a free market economy and respect individual rights. Unfortunately, the situation there is deteriorating.

Krugman’s recent NYT column on Russia features commentary on trade surpluses that is at best very misleading.

During the 1930s, the Rockefellers pushed hard for war against Japan.

The Europeans are welcome to keep NATO going if they like. But the time has come for the United States to exit.

American politicians claim that excessive military spending makes Americans "safe." The record shows otherwise.

The presence of American companies in foreign nations was once seen as a sign of American superiority and an instrument of American cultural power. Not anymore.

Trying to interpret the actions of Vladimir Putin or politics in Russia using Western narratives is likely to end in failure.

Revisionism has the general function of bringing historical truth to a public that had been drugged by wartime lies and propaganda.

The Europeans are welcome to keep NATO going if they like. But the time has come for the United States to exit.

Everything from huge Keynesian "stimulus" policies to the war in Ukraine is dovetailing in a bout of stagflation: the simultaneous growth of inflation and unemployment.