There is No Vacation Anymore
by MARTIN BILLHEIMER “But the beauty is in the walking. We are betrayed by destinations.” – Gwynn Thomas Covid has made a mockery of scheduling. Its new order of hibernation or death caught the Republic unawares, […]
Category: USA
Two Fictions of Mainstream Economics
by JACK RASMUS Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Mainstream economics consistently fails to predict the future. I’m talking about those ‘schools’ of mis-thought, ranging from Paul Krugman on the ‘left’ to Glenn Hubbard and other apologists […]
How Obama Could Find Some Redemption
by PAUL STREET Photograph Source: jamesomalley – CC BY 2.0 History, literature, film, and scripture are loaded with stories and examples of redemption. Buddhism gives us the story of Aṅgulimāla, a pathological mass-murderer who became a follower […]
Aiming Missiles at Viruses: a Plea for Sanity in a Time of Plague
by HUGH IGLARSH Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair The point I am trying to make here is a simple and obvious one, or would be in a society not burdened with a two-pronged ideology of extreme […]
US, Singapore Navies Conduct Joint Exercise in South China Sea
SOUTH CHINA SEA: The Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) and the Republic of Singapore Navy Formidable-class multi-role stealth frigate RSS Steadfast (FFS 70) conducted a bilateral exercise in the South China […]
Trump’s executive order against social media is rubbish. Ignore it.
BOB MORRIS Oh noes. Mean Twitter fact-checked two tweets by the Orange Toddler, who then had a tantrum. Trump huffed and puffed, then issued a meaningless unenforceable executive order trying to repeal Section 230. However, […]
Trump’s War on Arms Control and Disarmament
by MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: ZhengZhou – CC BY-SA 3.0 A successor to the Trump administration will have to rebuild the credibility of the Department of Justice and the effectiveness of such regulatory agencies as the Environmental […]
Interview with US official suggests American support for Turkish military intervention and Islamist terrorists in Libya
Nureddin Sabir, Editor, Redress Information & Analysis, writes: Fresh evidence has emerged suggesting that the United States sees Turkey as a useful proxy to support the unelected Libyan “Government of National Accord” (GNA). The GNA […]
The Sure Way to End Concerns About China’s “Theft” of a Vaccine: Make it Open
by DEAN BAKER Photograph Source: quapan – CC BY 2.0 In the last couple of weeks both the New York Times and National Public Radio have warned that China could steal a vaccine against the coronavirus, or at least steal work […]
Trump Administration and the Washington Post: Picking Fights Together
by MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair For the past several months, the Trump administration has been picking fights—using cold war rhetoric regarding China and applying a “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran. The editorial writers […]