Author name: David Stockman

Foreign Aid: Freeze The Frauds

By Jim Bovard   The Donald Trump administration suspended top officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development earlier this week. The move, labeled a “Monday afternoon massacre,” was spurred by allegations that top USAID officials were circumventing President Trump’s ninety day freeze on foreign aid disbursements. Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY) howled on Twitter that […]

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The Sanctions/Industrial Complex

From Mises Wire by Hekmat Aboukhater   As the Washington drawbridge lowers for a second Trump administration, the world attempts to glean any insights that might indicate the direction of his second term. At the top of the list of concerns is the topic of sanctions. As of 2024, the US is actively sanctioning a

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Washington’s Proxy War On Russia In Ukraine Is Going Nowhere Fast

 By Doug Bandow As the United States and its European allies continue to provide Ukraine with the wherewithal to kill Russian soldiers and strike ever deeper in Russian territory, the potential for retaliatory escalation creeps higher. Kiev is of course entitled to respond harshly to Moscow’s invasion. As it is doing so with Western weapons,

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Crony Capitalist Corruption On Steroids or How “Joe Biden” Is Buying Arizona’s Electoral Votes By Sending Taxpayer Loot To Taiwan!

The US plans to award Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. $6.6 billion in grants and as much as $5 billion in loans to help the world’s top chipmaker build factories in Arizona, expanding President Joe Biden’s effort to boost domestic production of critical technology. Under the preliminary agreement announced by the US on Monday, TSMC will construct a third

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