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US-allied South African troops conduct search and destroy operation in Namibia in 1980s Photo: Wikipedia The 60-day extension of the ceasefire between the United States and Iran may lead to lasting peace or it may be over within a week, doomed by the dysfunctional alliance between the US and Israel. If it holds, it could mark the beginning of a transition away from the doctrine of “low-intensity conflict” that has shaped U.S. foreign policy for decades. Talks between the US, Iran, Pakistan and Qatar began in Switzerland on June 21st. But Iran was firm that it holds the United States…
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The U.S. Constitution gives Congress the authority “to regulate Commerce…among the several States.” In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Interstate Commerce Clause should be construed so broadly as to allow the federal ban on marijuana to be enforced against medical marijuana patients whose use was perfectly legal under state law and whose cultivation and consumption of the plant had occurred entirely within the confines of a single state. The final vote in that controversial case, Gonzales v. Raich, was 6–3. The most forceful of the dissents was written by Justice Clarence Thomas. “If Congress can regulate this…
“For decades, he preached that the self-interest of the predator was the invisible hand of the common good,” Yanis Varoufakis said after the man who led the US central bank under four presidents died aged 100. Alan Greenspan, whose policies during nearly 20 years as US Federal Reserve chair fueled soaring economic inequality and helped create the conditions for multiple economic crashes, died Monday at age 100 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. While many corporate media outlets published hagiographic obituaries lionizing the “Maestro” who presided over nearly two decades of low inflation, rising stock prices, and American economic confidence, critics focused on…
It is so obvious that I shouldn’t have to say it, but at this perilous moment in U.S. history, I will: Alliances matter. The willingness of other countries to work with and alongside America to counter threats and solve big problems matters. There are times when the Trump administration seems to forget this timeless truth. So, it was heartening this week to see President Trump gather in France with leaders of the world’s other major democracies at the G7. President Trump said the leaders “found a great deal of unity” at the meeting. He joined the other countries in reinforcing…
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Joshua Scheer As the world reflects on the life and legacy of former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, economist Yanis Varoufakis offers a reminder that the debate Greenspan helped shape is far from settled. For decades, Greenspan was celebrated as the high priest of market fundamentalism, championing the belief that markets could regulate themselves and that private self-interest would ultimately serve the public good. The financial crisis of 2008 shattered that faith, prompting Greenspan’s now-famous admission that he had “found a flaw” in the model that defined his understanding of the economy. Yet long before Greenspan’s confession, critics were…
Image by Immo Wegmann. In the first few weeks of his presidency, Donald Trump announced a massive AI infrastructure project dubbed Stargate. It was an unexpected and rather odd event for a new administration’s first major initiative. It now seems obvious that the project was a highly coordinated initiative between the federal government and the Big Tech power base that puppeteers many of its programs as the US glides into full technocrat mode. Stargate is an ongoing $500 billion public-private partnership intended to fast-track AI. It includes tech behemoths such as OpenAI, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Oracle. In practical terms, that means only one thing: a massive push…
Michelle Witte The Grayzone A wave of strange property attacks targeting Jewish sites in Canada is attributed to apolitical youth paid in crypto. The violence follows the same playbook seen in Australia and the UK. While Iran and Palestine solidarity campaigners are blamed, Israel exploits the tension. Canada is the latest in a string of nations to attribute a wave of high-profile but mostly low-consequence attacks to a mysterious online “gun-for-hire” plot. If Canada follows the pattern set in Australia, Europe and the UK, the “foreign entity” its government is already blaming for orchestrating the petty violence will be…
The Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) was commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO) to discover the origin of SARS-CoV-2. Unsurprisingly, a recent paper from members of SAGO concluded: “We did not find evidence to suggest that SARS CoV2 (sic) resulting from experimental manipulation was a more likely scenario than it emerging from naturally occurring mutations or recombination events.” This conclusion is unsurprising because the WHO was clearly taking marching orders from China; right from the beginning of the pandemic, they were parroting bizarre talking points from China, such as SARS-CoV-2 was not airborne. Furthermore, a WHO team…