Why The Neutralist? The term Isolationist implies a narrow Fortress America outlook and is used as an epithet. The term Neutralist does not indicate someone hiding out from the world. No one calls the Swiss isolationists. The Wilsonian world view is old, tired and wrong. Our interventions have been less and less successful and now the failure can no longer be covered up.

Thursday, April 28, 2022

What was Madeline Albright like? Joe Lauria remembers.

 

At Consortium News today we have:


The Madeleine Albright I Knew


The Consortium News editor-in-chief covered Madeleine Albright, who died on March 23, on a daily basis between 1993 and 1997 when she was the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Here are some of his recollections.

It's not a pretty picture.

Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Ron Paul-Common Sense on Ukraine - Another Racket of War

 

Ron Paul's column this week at the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity is dead on:


The Ukraine War Is a Racket.

The following paragraph tells you all you need to know.

"One group of special interests profiting massively on the war is the US military-industrial complex. Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes recently told a meeting of shareholders that, “Everything that ‘s being shipped into Ukraine today, of course, is coming out of stockpiles, either at DOD or from our NATO allies, and that’s all great news. Eventually we’ll have to replenish it and we will see a benefit to the business.”