Wars as Money-Laundering Operations

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. “Fighting a war to fix something works about as good as going to a whorehouse to get rid of a clap.” ~ Norman Mailer, The Naked and the Dead I read Norman Mailer’s fine book about World War II, “The Naked and...

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US Strikes Kill Dozens of Migrants in Yemen

U.S. forces reportedly bombed a prison in Yemen in a series of strikes that killed at least 68 people: Yemen’s Houthi rebels on Monday alleged a U.S. airstrike hit a prison holding African migrants, killing at least 68 people and wounding 47 others. The U.S. military...

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