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Tag Archives: War
Mission Accomplished
Seven years of war have hardly made Iraq a better place, and with the American withdrawal Iraq’s future has been marred with very high uncertainty. As a premonition, Iraqi insurgents launched a broad series of attacks on 25 August. Continue reading
Thoughts on American Slavery
Did the apropos burst in post-civil war agricultural productivity make the abolition of slavery affordable, or did the abolition of slavery accelerate the post-war rise in agricultural productivity? Continue reading
Cowboy Economics
American efforts to instigate economic growth in countries in need of reconstruction, including Iraq, Afghanistan, and Haiti, have fallen short of expectation. A more sensible approach to reconstruction and economic development in crisis countries, such as Haiti and Iraq, is one which reduces the size of government. This is not something which can be centrally planned, or somehow conveyed through military occupation or aid (however you want to call it), but something which occurs naturally. Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Politics
Tagged Afghanistan, Capitalism, Haiti, imperialism, iraq, reconstruction, Third, War, World
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North Korea’s Coming Capitalist Revolution
North Korea is on the verge of a political revolution. The worst thing South Korea and the United States can do is take North Korea’s bait and isolate it even further. Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Politics
Tagged Capitalism, famine, Korea, North, poverty, Socialism, War
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Brothers in Arms: Stalin & D-Day
Operation Overlord was launched in large part to preempt a Soviet occupation of Central Europe, and as such it is ironic to include Stalin in the national D-Day memorial. Continue reading
War Drums
Current events on the Korean Peninsula can be nothing more than manipulation by North Korea in order to consolidate power within the hands of the post-Kim Il-Jon generation of militants. Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
Tagged dictatorship, instability, Korea, North, Politics, poverty, War
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1,000 Dead Later
1,000 dead in Afghanistan, official as of 18 May 2010. 1,000 dead, with no success in sight. Continue reading
Casus Belli
According to the government, it was the Taliban which attacked the United States. This is the same group the United States continues to vie with over control of Afghanistan. Continue reading
Some Links
Discussion points for 15 April 2010. Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
Tagged anthropogenic, deal, Depression, global, Great, iraq, Krugman, new, Politics, Roosevelt, Samuelson, War, warming
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Stiglitz on the Costs of War
Stiglitz studies the true costs of war and attacks deficit spending, without realizing his own hypocrisy. Continue reading →