by Fred Reed
November 9, 2010 This, written sixteen years ago, I stumbled on in the Lew Rockwell archive. While not brilliantly written, it illustrates that the more things change, they more they don’t. Oh good. I see that Senator Lindsey Graham wants to attack Iran. The US, he says, should “sink their navy, destroy their …
This is not a column, but a correction to silly assertions that the Guadalajara airport was in flames, that President Scheinbaum has fled the country, and suchlike nonsense. For those interested, the following link is to Mexico News Daily, an American-run daily published for the expat population: MND At the same time there is a …
Americans, including many of the intelligent and schooled, have little grasp of geography and, since geopolitics rests heavily on where places are, their understanding of events relies on moral fables of good and evil. They are thus subject to manipulation by the news media and unscrupulous politicians, which is to say almost any politicians. Consider …
“Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.” ~ “Voting in particular is an embarrassment, being a public display of weak character …
Oh help. I am told that some still believe that diversity is our strength. These people are powerful believers and probably could believe a hole into a bank vault or believe an anvil into flying. The fact is that diversity has been the cause of unending hostility, bloodshed, misery and social malfunction since Nordic white …
Twaddle to the right, twaddle to the left, and not a drop to drink. In contemplating China’s meteoric rise (though on thought I am not sure that meteors rise) Americans usually attribute it to cheap labor or theft of intellectual property or unfair governmental subsidies. But our religious faith in free enterprise, in which individuals …
Given that Washington is actively looking for a pretext to invade Mexico, where I have lived for twenty-three years, a few observations from this side of the border may be of worth. To begin, let us ponder Claudia Scheinbaum Pardo, Mexico’s recently elected president, who is subject to considerable venom in the American media. For …
‘People of different sorts seldom want to live together. When forced to do so, the results often are suboptimal, such as mass murder. For example Protestants and Catholics in Ireland, Hutus and Tutsis in Burundi, Israelis and Palestinians in Palestine, Chinese and Indonesians in Jakarta, Shias and Sunnis in many places, Moslems and Hindus in …
Much ink has been shed over the blowing up of the Nordstream pipelines with fingers being pointed at Americans, Russians, and Ukrainians as the saboteurs. At this writing, a Ukrainian supposedly involved has been arrested. How the media will spin this I don’t know. There exist many politically motivated who would like to decide who …
Consider two children, white, boys, growing up in contented middle-class families in the same suburb of Washington, DC, equally bright, popular, successful with girls, and so on. One becomes a growling conservative, the other a chirping liberal. I think of them as woofers and tweeters.) Why the difference in outcome? A likely explanation, or so …