Zombie NATO Expansion Stumbles On

Originally appeared at The American Conservative.NATO expansion stumbles on mindlessly like a zombie:The U.S. Senate approved the accession of North Macedonia to NATO in a 91-2 vote Tuesday, meaning the small Balkan nation is a step closer to becoming NATO’s...

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Trump’s Plunder Doctrine Comes to Syria

Originally appeared at The American Conservative.Part of the small residual U.S. force that the Trump administration is keeping in Syria serves no real military purpose:“Al-Tanf has no obvious military purpose,” added Sam Heller of the International Crisis Group. “The...

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Back Again on the Road to Serfdom

Socialism has been tried on six continents and in numerous countries, but always with the same failed result. Despite geographic, economic, and other national differences, the experience of socialism follows a consistent trajectory, with its trademark features –...

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Taking Next Steps Toward Nuclear Abolition

My friend Marianne Goldscheider, who is 87, suffered a broken hip in July, 2018 and then, in June 2019, it happened again. When she broke her hip the first time, she was running, with her son, on a football field. After the second break, when she fell in her kitchen,...

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