Authored by Peter Korzun via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
The recent NATO summit took a decision to formally become a member of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State (IS), in addition to its training mission in Iraq.
Authored by Ben Hunt via EpsilonTheory.com,
Michael Corleone: I saw a strange thing today. Some rebels were being arrested. One of them pulled the pin on a grenade. He took himself and the captain of the command with him. Now, soldiers are paid to fight; the rebels aren’t.
Hyman Roth: What does that tell you?
Michael Corleone: They could win.
Amid a cacophony of autistic screeching from the left following Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Accord, at least one Democrat stands strong behind the President. Senior ranking Democrat Senator from West Virginia, Joe Manchin, issued a statement saying he 'does not believe that the Paris Agreement ensures a balance between our environment and the economy.'
Will he, or won't he?
Update: Bloomberg reports that person familiar with the decision have confirmed The White House plans to withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord.
The withdrawal will take three years and Trump will rework the Paris terms in the meantime.
Authored by Ryan McMaken via The Mises Institute,
Socialists have attempted many times to put their ideology into action. Socialism has been applied in the Soviet Union, Cuba, China (before Deng), North Korea, and by many other less-famous regimes.
In each case, the result has been economic impoverishment and political authoritarianism.
But the die-hard socialists refuse to give up. "Don't judge communism based on these results, " we're told. "Socialism has simply never really been tried."