Veni, Vidi, and Then What?
In the good old, brutal days, an empire faced a clean, honest choice: it devoured its rivals, or its rivals devoured it. Victory paid dividends you could weigh and count — booty, tribute, and slaves.
Commentary
Greatest Show on Earth
Even the planet seems to have turned against the US empire.
Interventionist Bedfellows
Modern democracies were built on a fraud — the sweet fantasy that people would be better off as the feds bossed them around and spent more and more of their money.
Committee to Save the World
Imposing a 20% fed funds rate would be catastrophic. The whole financial system — in the US and much of the rest of the world — would shrivel up. Because we have 40 times as much federal debt.
Shooting the Generals
We have grandchildren visiting us here in Ireland. So, we’re going to do even less thinking than we do normally.
Mission Creeps
Nations cast off their parasitic elites only when they have no choice — that is, when they are whipped in war or have run out of money.
