Reshaping the Middle East: Why the West Should Stop Its Interventions

Reshaping the Middle East: Why the West Should Stop Its Interventions

Every single foreign intervention has made the Middle East reconfigure itself against the interventionists. It has harshly counter-attacked, creating the opposite of the insurgents’ desired effect. When we look at recent history (the last four decades since the PLO was expelled from Lebanon), the list is cataclysmic. We find the formation of Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Qaeda,…

How US Hardliners Ensured Soviet Withdrawal Did Not Lead to Peace in Afghanistan

How US Hardliners Ensured Soviet Withdrawal Did Not Lead to Peace in Afghanistan

Thirty years after the withdrawal of the last Soviet forces from Afghanistan, the US is still fighting the monster they helped create in their anti-Soviet crusade. February 15, 1989. The date when the Soviet Army left Afghanistan for the last time. Trying to defend the left-wing government in Kabul from US-backed mujahideen had cost the…

Who Does Government Serve?

Who Does Government Serve?

The US health system is the most high cost and dysfunctional health care system in the world. The reason is that it is privatized. In the rest of Western civilization the system is socialized. The reason health care is socialized in civilized countries is not only to provide health care to citizens who otherwise could…