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Depose and Conquer
Check out this NYT review of the new book Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq by Stephen Kinzer. "What's most depressing about Kinzer's book, however, is not the drastic clash it describes between professed American morality and actual...
US Should Butt Out of China-Taiwan Conflict
Says the great Alan Bock in his review of Ted Galen Carpenter's new book America's Coming War With China. Wow, did you guys realize that, like Israel, Taiwan is not a state in the Union? That makes them none of our government's business.
Recent Episodes of the Scott Horton Show
01/27/17 – Joseph Stromberg on the politics, protectionism and foreign policy of The New Deal – The Scott Horton Show
Joseph Stromberg, an independent historian and writer, discusses how the Smoot-Hawley Tariff and worldwide protectionism ground the US economy to a halt in the 1930s; the enduring “accordion effect” of increasing government power and decline of civil liberties during wartime; how the distribution of defense contractor jobs among key congressional districts makes cuts in military spending politically impossible; and why government rationing is more a show of force than an attempt to fix economic problems.
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