As a well-known adage holds: "To the victor go the spoils." But it might well add: "Meanwhile, the losers go to the gallows." This is the logic of victor's justice. It is the logic of the Treaty of Versailles, which demanded unpayable reparations from the vanquished...
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Episode 353 – The Crisis of Science
In recent years, the public has gradually discovered that there is a crisis in science. But what is the problem? And how bad is it, really? Today on The Corbett Report we shine a spotlight on the series of interrelated crises that are exposing the way institutional...
Why Technocrats LOVE The “Green New Deal”
You may have seen "Students Love Green New Deal... Until Hearing What's In It" by now, but if not you probably get the gist just from the title. Yes, it's one of those "man on the street" interview videos where random college students are asked whether they support...
Earth to Trump: America Is ALREADY A Socialist Country
So it seems that something in Trump's State of the Union speech has gotten the MAGA crowd all excited. Was it this? "My administration has acted decisively to confront the world’s leading state sponsor of terror: the radical regime in Iran. It is a radical regime....
Fake News: Economics Edition
Just when you thought "fake news" was only about those dastardly Russians hiding under every bed, Japan comes out and admits that 40% of its economic data is bogus. That's right, a report from Japan's Internal Affairs Ministry this week reveals that 22 of the 56 key...
Has the Chinese Dragon Been Tamed?
Chinese President-for-Life Xi Jinping is warning that the glorious Communist Party of China (CPC) "is facing long-term and complex tests in terms of maintaining long-term rule, reform and opening-up, a market-driven economy, and within the external environment." Or at...
Know Your Enemy: The Royal Institute of International Affairs
Readers of this column will know all about the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) by now. The CFR's influence in setting Washington's foreign policy agenda was once derided as “conspiracy theory." But, as is often the case, that "conspiracy theory" is now a simple...
Banksters HATE The Free Market
It's no secret that governments hate the free market. At its base, every single government tax, license, regulation and restriction is an implicit rebuke to the idea that humans should be able to interact freely with those around them. This is old news to my long-term...