Tag Archives: U.S. Policy

A recent interview with Craig Mokhiber, an American former Director of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, provides by far the most compelling explanation of the Jeffrey Epstein saga I have heard. According to the interview, Epstein was an Israeli asset who helped significantly twist regional Middle East relations and the […]

The research note below is by my friend, Argentine economist Rubén Lo Vuolo. There are two features I especially value about it: (1) It shows it is a myth that the era of Neoliberalism is over and retreating. (2) Lo Vuolo’s “language” is analytically accurate and powerful, and it is strikingly different from that of […]

Argentina is back in the news with renewed financial turmoil spurred by President Milei’s poor political standing. That poor standing is the product of anger with Argentina’s dire economic performance and massive corruption within Milei’s administration, and it augurs poorly for his party’s performance in the forthcoming October 2025 election. In response, the IMF and […]

This statement is submitted in connection with the Joint Committee’s deliberations on the European Union’s (EU) legislative proposals COM(2025)122 and COM(2025)123. Those two measures aim to increase EU member state military expenditures and weapons production. They raise multiple serious concerns regarding the merits thereof, including gravely exacerbating the existing Ukraine conflict and making a peace settlement […]

Last week I e-mailed a note titled “Goodbye pluralism: cancelled Post Keynesian style” which detailed my suspension by the Post Keynesian Economics Society (PKES). That suspension unjustly sanctioned me for an earlier e-mail announcement of my article “The Ukraine war and Europe’s deepening march of folly”. The PKES has now responded, claiming I violated its […]

In her book The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, the historian Barbara Tuchman explores the perplexing question of why countries sometimes pursue policies that are fundamentally contrary to their own interests. That question has acquired renewed relevance as Europe has now enlisted in a deepening march of folly over Ukraine. Failure to reject […]

I urge you to watch this YouTube mini documentary (30 minutes). If that is too long, watch just the segment from 10:30 -12:00 (1.30 minutes). Jeffrey D. Sachs – Understanding the Ukraine conflict – Brave New Europe Every German should watch this before voting in the February election (and every European should watch in advance […]

This paper explores the deep causes of the Ukraine – Russia war. It argues that the war has both internal and external causes. The internal causes are rooted in the way the Soviet Union disintegrated. The external causes relate to how the US exploited the fractures in the post-Soviet order to advance its Neoconservative agenda […]

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Watch this and ask yourself if you know: “Gaza”: an Al Jazeera Investigative Unit documentary