This episode is hosted by C4SS’s Elinor Ostrom Chair in the Study of Self Governance, Nathan Goodman. Nathan is joined by Christopher Coyne and Abigail Hall for a deep dive into the authors’ new book, How to Run Wars, A Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite, available from June 18th on Amazon, or through…

Di James C. Wilson. Articolo originale: On the Death of Henry Kissinger, del 7 dicembre 2023. Traduzione italiana di Enrico Sanna. “Dopo esser stato in Cambogia, vorresti pestare Henry Kissinger fino a spellarti le mani” ~ Anthony Bourdain Il 29 novembre 2023 all’età di cento anni è morto Henry Kissinger. La gioia invade internet. Nel…

“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger to death with your bare hands” –Anthony Bourdain On November 29th, 2023, Henry Kissinger died at the age of 100. The internet rejoices. For years, Kissinger had been a living embodiment of evil that would just not die, in the realm of…

Okumak üzere olduğunuz makale, Sebastian Bn Zaydan  tarafından kaleme alınmış ve Efsa tarafından Türkçe ’ye çevrilmiştir. 22 Şubat 2022 tarihinde “American Incompetence, not Afghan Corruption” başlığı altında yayınlanmıştır. Afganistan olayları sonrası iyi niyetli bir analiz İlk karşılaştığım yabancıların çoğu, uluslararası kâr amacı gütmeyen kuruluşlar için çalışan ve onlardan mali anlamda destek alan iyi niyetli gönüllüler…

Di Sebastian Bn Zaydan. Originale pubblicato il 22 febbraio 2022 con il titolo American Incompetence, not Afghan Corruption. Traduzione di Enrico Sanna. Incompetenza Americana, non Corruzione Afgana: Consuntivo delle Buone Intenzioni Come tanti altri bambini che vivono in Palestina, molti degli stranieri che ho conosciuto erano volontari e accademici benintenzionati che lavoravano ed erano pagati…

American Incompetence, not Afghan Corruption: A Post-Mortem of Good Intentions Like most children in Palestine, many of the first foreigners I met were well-intentioned volunteers and academics working for, and funded by, international non-profits and institutions. I idolized these young, lively, and worldly supporters of the Palestinian cause throughout my childhood. However, with adolescence comes…

Again Trump has it backwards. According to NATO’s internal logic, the US should pay the members — not the other way around — for providing services to the empire and a tripwire for war. The empire doesn’t protect, it provokes and endangers. Who would willingly pay for that? As Andrew Levine, drawing on Andrew Bacevich,…

Cos’hanno in comune Barack Obama e Donald Trump? Fra l’altro, il fatto che non sanno, o fingono di sapere, perché i musulmani ci odiano. Trump dice (stavo per scrivere “crede”, ma non so se esiste qualcuno, compreso Trump, che sappia in cosa crede) che i musulmani dovrebbero essere tenuti alla larga dagli Stati Uniti finché…

Forse Franklin Roosevelt non disse mai del dittatore nicaraguense Anastasio Somoza “sarà un figlio di puttana, ma è il nostro figlio di puttana”, ma probabilmente lo pensò; e anche tanti altri presidenti devono aver pensato qualcosa di simile di miriadi di dittatori brutali. Ma se il governo americano ha costretto gli americani ad appoggiare dittature…

It’s about time someone challenged the phrase radical Islamic terrorism. The most objectionable part is the word radical since it is now popularly associated with aggression — violence against innocents — as an acceptable means to politico-religious ends. But nothing about the word radical implies approval of aggression or terrorism. Rather, the word signifies an approach that goes to the…

What do Barack Obama and Donald Trump have in common? Among other things, they have — or pretend to have — no clue why some Muslims hate us. Trump says (I almost typed believes, but I’m not sure anyone, including Trump, knows what he believes) Muslims should be barred from the United States until “until…

While Franklin Roosevelt may not have said that Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza “may be a son of a bitch, but he’s our son of a bitch,” he probably thought it — just as other presidents have had similar thoughts about myriad brutal rulers. So if the U.S. government has forced the American people to support useful dictators, why is…