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Always feels good when Austrian Economics is mixed in with this gem:
The refusal of the vast majority of members of both major political parties to renounce the militaristic and imperialistic foreign policy of the U.S. and to support a non-interventionist foreign policy specifically devoted to the defense, properly defined, of this country is a glaring problem.
it’s a “glaring” problem Dennis because the Israel Lobby is the 800 pound gorilla in Congress that no one can talk about. It was the Israel Lobby (AIPAC, JINSA) that started the plans for pre-emptive war against Iraq, and is the same lobby that is pushing for another war on Iran. The Washington Post may not be honest but at least the LA times isn’t trying to hide it
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/la-oe-stein19-2008dec19,0,2313474.column
“I appreciate Foxman’s concerns. And maybe my life spent in a New Jersey-New York/Bay Area-L.A. pro-Semitic cocoon has left me naive. But I don’t care if Americans think we’re running the news media, Hollywood, Wall Street or the government. I just care that we get to keep running them.”
–is it any irony that if a gentile said the above exact thing he would receive universal condemnation?
It must have not been a very value-free jihad.
What? Jihad? Declare war on whom?! zomg
Hmm… radical Islam is an idea. This states a desire for war against that idea. Perhaps they are challenging radical Islam to a debate?
The debate would actually be quite apt.
Radical Islam would argue with suicide bombs (like it always does) and the US would argue with large bombs (like it always does).
It would certainly be a debate of sorts.
I always love comments sections most of all…
“skipsailing, when someone advocates returning to crank-theories like “Austrain economics,” you don’t have to launch into a thoughtful critique to respond. You can call a spade a spade.”
Hear that? The cricket and occasional owl hoot-enhanced cacophony of avoidance extended towards ABCT and ACT, in particular, has a justification after all. You don’t have to rebut. That’s just the way it is.
… and the association made by the Maine GOP of Austrian School economics and “waging wars to win” is most unfortunate. I, for one, am sick of the Tea Parties. In much the same way that intergovernmental technocrats have redefined free markets, free trade, and privatization into their opposites, this kind of stuff does us little good beyond merely getting the Austrian School’s name out there. I fear the consequences of this implied alliance won’t be good.
Robert, right on, and how, I was wondering, can we *return* to something these bozos just half discovered? No one in power has ever been an “Austrian”, no one in power ever could be an “Austrian.”
This is not necessarily true: It’s very easy to imagine a politician who knows all too well the horrible consequences of what he is advocating, but only wants the money and power for himself and doesn’t care how many people suffer for it.
As if Austrian Economics hasn’t been conflated enough with supply-side economic. Now it’s going to function as a shiny new euphemism for the latter.
Austrian Economics Links In The Media Appear Despite The Oppressive State.
If journalism was alive and well and if the press (the media in general) was not under the heinous influence of the unConstitutional coup there would be a flood of links to Austrian economics. When it does bubble to the surface during these Dark Ages of economics it is a well appreciated victory for truth and justice.
I was more disturbed by the page they linked to. Don’t get me wrong, the presentation is very thorough and complete. And if you have an interest in economics and history as I do, then the reading of “What is Austrian Economics ?” is excellent. Yet I doubt the blue collar worker who has an interest in the Tea Party movement, and out of curiosity clicks on our link, is going to get past the first paragraph or two. He/she will walk away clueless or turned off.
If we can’t explain our ideas in a couple paragraphs or less than we will lose the “public battle” and in a democracy that means… we don’t exist. Perhaps we need a publicist.
Of course, I will admit I have no idea what the readership demographic is for the Washington Post. Perhaps the majority of the readers have degrees in history and economics…I doubt it.
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