Denis MacShane is correct to criticize the U.S. pullout of UNESCO as unproductive (The Globalist, October 25, 2017). But to label Trump an “isolationist” who is taking the United States back to the 1920s is a misdiagnosis. Given Trump’s manic instability…
Monthly Archives: October 2017
How Our Foreign Policy Helps Create Our Immigration Crisis
by jeff.faux •
As his price for not deporting roughly 800,000 “Dreamers” who came to this country as children, Donald Trump demands an escalated war against immigrants, topped by his nightmarish 2,000-mile wall along the Mexican border. Democrats have said no. Whether or not…
A Short History of American Empire
by jeff.faux •
Review of The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the birth of American Empire, by Stephen Kinzer Toward the end of this history of the domestic conflict over U.S. overseas expansion at the close of the nineteenth century, Stephen…