America's Lawmakers Keep Writing Blank Checks for Foreign Wars
• https://nationalinterest.org by Doug BandowLegislators must stop making excuses for prioritizing foreign interests and put America first again.
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Legislators must stop making excuses for prioritizing foreign interests and put America first again.
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Jewish groups in the United States are adept at creating mechanisms that benefit themselves and also frequently Israel at the expense of the American taxpayer.
The recent shootings of three U.S. soldiers in Florida at the hands of a Saudi citizen raises a standard question in the U.S. government's perpetual "war on terrorism": "Why do they hate us?"
The recent shootings of three U.S. soldiers in Florida at the hands of a Saudi citizen raises a standard question in the U.S. government's perpetual "war on terrorism": "Why do they hate us?"
- three months after Trump pulled plug on negotiations
Donald Trump is in a painful bind. The China-bashing traitors within his own party trying to pass themselves off as American patriots have done everything imaginable to destroy the one chance the President has to save America from the policies of ec
Donald Trump is in a painful bind. The China-bashing traitors within his own party trying to pass themselves off as American patriots have done everything imaginable to destroy the one chance the President has to save America from the policies of ec
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...the original foreign policy of the United States was one of non-intervention in the affairs of other nations. No coups, foreign wars of aggression, foreign aid, state-sponsored assassinations, alliances with foreign regimes, or regime-change opera
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Before we get to Wolfowitz's argument, such as it is, can we just marvel at the shamelessness of Wolfowitz when he presumes to lecture anyone about sound foreign policy decision-making?
This talk was delivered on November 9, 2019, at the Mises Institute symposium in Lake, Jackson, Texas.
UPDATE: Racist statements come out of the mouth of Bolivia's self-declared president: https://russia-insider.com/en/bolivias-self-declared-interim-president-believes-indians-are-satanic-shouldnt-be-allowed-cities
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Come you masters of war / You that build the big guns
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Clinton, McRaven and Pelosi all are featured
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