@sirachablues @ClassicCodNjoyr @StoneAgeGWOT The US govt has a long history of backing rebels that benefit the “empires” goals and in some cases extremists gets armed, funded, trained etc. As was the case in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, the Caucasus, Libya, and Syria. Obama, Gulf states, and Israel def helped.
@sirachablues @ClassicCodNjoyr @StoneAgeGWOT John Kerry in leaked Audio from 2016 with Syrian “revolutionaries” openly said they (the Obama admin) were concerned about the growth of ISIS but hoped they would be able to topple Assad for them and they thought they would be able to “maintain” their growth
@norabird@other_st_nick Neighborhoods like Oak Park chose to be separate from Chicago. During the same time Brooklyn voted to join NYC, outer rim neighborhoods in Chicago voted the opposite.
@woland446628 @0millennial @scotthortonshow A statistically detailed book on the economics of china from Mao through their market liberalizations from Deng to today? Yes. Going into great detail on not just macro policies but even micro examples (like privately run farms vs centrally planned) during great leap forward
@Esquireo@metomentodo @0millennial @scotthortonshow Again, you’re going after the people that encourage the war machine, when the issue is the war machine itself. You’re addressing the symptoms not the sickness itself. The military industrial sector only exists because they have a govt with an unlimited money printing machine
@metomentodo@Esquireo @0millennial @scotthortonshow Ideally a voluntary state. But in reality just eliminate the fed. It’s the source of all of our issues. All the foreign wars and nation building of the last 50 years. Devaluation of the dollar (86% since 80’s). The rich getting richer and poor struggling to make ends meet
@0millennial @scotthortonshow China squeezed a few drops of capitalism in their barrel of Marxist slop and instantly pulls a billion ppl out of extreme poverty. Imagine if they went full free markets