Sunday: RAGE Against the War Machine in San Francisco

One of the legacies of Keynesian thought is the belief that war is “good for the economy.” While war may help enable employment, nonetheless, its overall legacy is destructive, and even the jobs war “creates” are economically undesirable.

Israel continued with its attacks on Lebanon today, following by far the single deadliest day in the war on Wednesday, in which at least 254 people were killed and well over 1,100 others were wounded. Lebanon has declared a national day of mourning today, as they continue to search for survivors in the rubble. Recovering […]

Thursday’s diplomatic negotiations (26 Feb) – for all the panglossian noise from mediators and negotiators – confirmed the essential impasse. The US demands presented to Iran were: These demands plainly were formulated to obstruct, rather than facilitate, any diplomatic solution. It reflects a strategy rooted in the viscerally-held presumption of Iranian weakness that, in the […]