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Larken Rose here

responds to Stevbve Shrives here

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an excerpt:
“Prior to the recent regime-change operation in Ukraine, the U.S. government had sent some $5 billion of U.S. taxpayer money into the country. No, not into the coffers of the government but rather into the hands of private groups. The U.S government claims that the purpose of the money was to help spread democracy.  The U.S. mainstream press lapped it up.

There is one great big problem, however, with that reasoning, one that the mainstream press clearly is unable to see. The president of Ukraine — the president that the private groups violently ousted from office — was democratically elected. Those $5 billion of U.S. taxpayer monies were used to destroy democracy, not fortify it.”

HOW AMERICANS CAN HELP UKRAINIANS

by Sheldon RichmanMarch 13, 2014

Here is an excerpt from
VLAD THE BAD STEALS A MARCH ON THE WEST
by Eric Margolis
http://ericmargolis.com/2014/03/vlad-the-bad-steals-a-march-on-the-west/

The US won’t accept that Russia has any legitimate spheres of influence, while Washington’s span the globe. Last week, US Secretary of State John Kerry, who used to be a sensible fellow before becoming corrupted by power, blasted Russia: “you just don’t invade a country under a phony pretext!”

I guess Kerry has never heard of the US invasions of the Dominican Republic, Lebanon, Grenada, Panama, Haiti, Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and Libya. Or can’t remember Vietnam and the Gulf of Tonkin “incident.”

Kerry should cut the hypocrisy and get to work on a diplomatic settlement. Two major nuclear-armed powers cannot – must not – be allowed to confront one another.

Ukraine could turn out to be the 1914 Bosnia-Herzegovina of our era if we don’t stop primitive breast-beating over a region no one could even find on a map until recently.

Published 2014-03-04
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Steven Landsburg, The Armchair Economist
THE IOWA CAR CROP

http://www.walkerd.people.cofc.edu/Readings/Trade/iowacarcrop.pdf

“International trade is nothing but a form of technology. The fact that there is a place called Japan, with people and factories, is quite irrelevant to Americans’ well-being. To analyze trade policies, we might as well assume that Japan is a giant machine with mysterious inner workings that convert wheat into cars.”

From:
Social Theory and Practice
Volume 36, Issue 3, July 2010
by: Michael Huemer

Is There a Right to Immigrate?

Immigration restrictions violate the prima facie right of potential immigrants not to be subject to harmful coercion. This prima facie right is not neutralized or outweighed by the economic, fiscal, or cultural effects of immigration, nor by the state’s special duties to its own citizens, or to its poorest citizens. Nor does the state have a right to control citizenship conditions in the same way that private clubs may control their membership conditions.

Click here for full article: Is There a Right to Immigrate?

From The New York Times:

The Dangers of Certainty: A Lesson From Auschwitz

How a single episode of a 1973 BBC series taught a young boy one of the most powerful moral lessons of the 20th century.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/02/the-dangers-of-certainty/

Thanks to Barbara Scolnick for providing the link.

Americans lavish praise on the military largely out of guilt from standing by and letting their politicians send the armed forces to pointless wars in foreign hellholes.

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