Foreign Policy
Conservative Hypocrisy on Foreign Aid
After initially threatening to veto it, Donald Trump signed into law a $2.3 trillion, 5,593-page spending bill that no member of Congress had read. The “Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021” (H.R.133), which is a combination of twelve annual funding bills, COVID-19...
No, the Government Shouldn’t Be Using the Military to Police the Globe
“Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes… known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of...
Rattling Cages in the Propaganda War
It appears I have rattled some cages. I recently appeared on RT to talk about how the United States weaponizes the dollar and wields it like a billy club to advance U.S. foreign policy objectives. I specifically mentioned how the U.S. can use the dollar-denominated...
SWIFT and the Weaponization of the U.S. Dollar
The Trump administration dropped 44,000 bombs in its first year – a faster bombing pace than Pres. Obama, who bombed more than Pres. Bush. America has intervened militarily in other countries for decades, against the council of founders like George Washington...