A default of the US government would not only be very harmful here, it would probably send the country back into deep recession, but it just might crash the international financial system.

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.

Libertarian socialism is properly to be regarded as the inheritor of the liberal ideals of the Enlightenment.

The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues and that's not their concern.

International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia.

I was told by journalists who can't publish it that there are in Mexico, close to the U.S. border, big areas that used to be devoted to agriculture that are now devoted to poppies. They say you can't get in there because they're guarded, first by the cartels, but also by the army, which goes hand in hand with the cartels.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.