America is a broad country with a limited imagination. At the same time every two-bit carny huckster grinding out his or her three-year contract on respectively obscure local news affiliates was working up increasingly hysterical tears in the hope of out-emoting peers...
ISIS Complicates Iran’s Nuclear Focus at UN
Iran’s foreign minister arrived in New York last week with his sights set on a final deal on Iran’s nuclear program. But a pressing regional conflict is hanging heavily over the already strained negotiations as Iran and world powers resume talks on the...
Iraq Generals Fired After Bungled Rescue; 103 Killed Tuesday
Congress Should Vote and Say No to Obama’s New War
President Obama’s war on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is modeled on the U.S. war against Serbia in 1999 to essentially detach its province of Kosovo – in which the United States acted as the air force for the Kosovo Liberation Army group. This model was...
109 Killed As Bombers Strike in Baghdad and Iraq Army Base
Apocalypse Now – Or Apocalypse Later
Editorial Note: This is the text of a speech given at the Casey Research Summit, 2014, "Thriving in a Crisis Economy." Part I appears here today: Part II will be published here on Wednesday. I’ve been a libertarian since I was a teenager, and so I’m quite...
Congress Votes for More War in the Middle East
Last week, the House and Senate voted to rubber stamp President Obama’s war plans for the Middle East. Both bodies, on a bipartisan basis, authorized the US to begin openly training and arming the rebels who have been fighting for three years to overthrow the...
Siege at Army Base Ongoing; 175 Killed, 102 Wounded Across Iraq
Clashes and Airstrikes Across Iraq Leave 154 Dead and Dozens Wounded
Heading Toward Failure: A Coalition of the ‘Reluctantly Willing’
As the Obama administration is busy forming a coalition to fight-eradicate the Islamic State (IS) or (ISIS/ISIL), the evolving coalition that gathered last week in Paris was a far cry from the one put together by George H. W. Bush in 1991 to fight and expel Saddam...