Stephen J. Sniegoski | Consortium News | 5 Nov 2014 A curious silence in the U.S.-led battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is coming from Israel, which has advocated the overthrow of Iran’s ally in Syria, President Bashar al-Assad, but has had little to say about the brutal Islamists seeking to oust Assad,…
by Patrick Barron | Mises.org | November 3, 2014 Destructive economic forces at work in NATO expansion The economic phenomenon known as the “tragedy of the commons” instructs us that commonly-held resources that are insufficiently protected will be plundered to extinction. The phenomenon was recognized in the early nineteenth century to explain why the…
Michael S. Rozeff | Lew Rockwell.com | 30 Oct 2014 The U.S. never demobilized after the Cold War ended. It constructed new missions for its military. It adopted a new post-Cold War strategy but kept its military forces intact. Americans received no peace dividend. To the contrary, as the years have passed and America’s wars…