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Would the Pentagon and CIA Permit Sanders to Be President?

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Most people consider Bernie Sanders’ race for the presidency to be an exercise in futility. That’s because, they say, he doesn’t have any realistic chance of defeating Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Party’s nomination. But there is another reason why Sanders’ quest for the presidency might be futile. It’s unlikely that the U.S. national-security establishment would ever permit Sanders to become president, on grounds of “national security.” Now, before anyone cries, “Conspiracy theory, Jacob!” let’s not forget what happened in Chile in the early 1970s. The Pentagon and the CIA orchestrated a military coup that removed Chilean president Salvador Allende from office and replaced him with military strongman Gen. Augusto Pinochet. It’s true that Allende was a self-described communist while Sanders is a self-described socialist, but isn’t that a distinction without a difference? If you compare the economic philosophies and policies that Allende favored to those that Sanders favors, my hunch is that you won’t find a great deal of difference. Why did ...

Trumbo Draws the Line between Conservatives and Libertarians

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The new movie Trumbo provides a perfect way to distinguish conservatives from libertarians. Conservatives believe that Trumbo got everything he deserved and libertarians believe that what was done to him was an absolutely horror. Dalton Trumbo was one of the most successful screenwriters in Hollywood from the 1930s on. Like many leftists of his time, he was attracted to communism, not only because he believed that government should take care of people (as conservatives believe, as manifested by their undying support for Social Security, Medicare, and the welfare state in general) but also because he believed that communism was an important counterweight against Nazism and fascism, which were gaining popularity in the 1930s, especially in Germany and Italy. In 1943, in the midst of World War II, Trumbo joined the U.S. Communist Party and remained a member until 1948. In the 1950s, thanks to the U.S. anti-communist crusade that conservatives were waging across America Trumbo, along with other Hollywood screenwriters, was subpoenaed ...

The Inanity of the Cold War

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There were many inanities that came with the Cold War, the 45-year period of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. In fact, one might easily argue that the entire Cold War was an exercise in inanity. U.S. officials, of course, have always maintained that the Cold War was necessary to prevent the Soviet Union from imposing communism on the United States and the rest of the world. There could never be peaceful coexistence with the Soviet Union, U.S. officials repeatedly told the American people throughout the Cold War, because the communists would never rest until their goal had been achieved. Any move toward peaceful coexistence was, in the eyes of U.S. officials, a first step in the surrender of the United States to the communists. The utter inanity of that position is reflected by the fact that the United States did coexist with communist regimes, both during the Cold War and after it ended in 1989. In fact, ...

Some Levity at the State Department Over Venezuela

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A couple of weeks ago, State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki brought a bit of levity to a press briefing on the ongoing crisis in Venezuela, specifically regarding Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s accusation that the U.S. government was involved in an attempted military coup attempt in that country. Here’s the pertinent exchange during the briefing: Question: President Maduro last night ...