Posts Tagged ‘ war ’

The Life and Wars of General Curtis Lemay, Part IV: Vietnam and President Johnson

Oct 12th, 2009 | By Byron King | Category: Featured, Morning Whiskey
From what deep wells of events flow the rivers of our time? By what path did the muse of history arrive here, at our front door? Where are the roots, for example, of monetary inflation? What pushed the U.S. into its modern de-industrialization? Along what road did the world travel ...read more

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Industrial Slaughter and War: The March of Progress

Aug 14th, 2009 | By Addison Wiggin | Category: Featured, Politics
In science and technology, knowledge builds up as people make new mistakes: Technology may, like digits in an actuarial table, improve and compound, accumulating gradually over time. But in love, finance, and the rest of life, people make the same old mistakes, over and over again. As soon as the ...read more

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Foundations of Crisis, Part III: War (So What’s Next?)

Jan 21st, 2009 | By Doug Casey | Category: Featured, Politics
The real watersheds in history, crises that make or break a civilization, occur roughly every 100 years. The most recent ones in American history that will resonate without looking up the facts in a reference book are the Revolution, circa 1782; the Civil War, circa 1863; and WW II, circa ...read more

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