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Wealth Inequality: Core Challenge for National Security

Jay Murdock

May 1, 2013
6 min

Wealth Inequality: Core Challenge for National Security

By Edward Corcoran / Ret. Strategic Analyst, U.S. Army War College / 04/30/2013 America prides itself on being the Land of Opportunity, and has made real efforts to be a land of equal opportunity. But it has never claimed to be a land of equal results. The driving force of the capitalist economic system is to get ahead with hard work and clever thinking, get ahead of the crowd in terms of assets and prestige. This is in stark contract to a socialist system focused more on le

Jay Murdock

Oct 21, 2011
3 min

Score Obama’s Proxy War a Clear Win

Ward Carroll, Editor Military.com – posted 10/20/11 Put another check in the win column… but do it quietly. After all, the Great Libyan War of 2011 was fought (and won) without really asking anybody if it was a good idea. No briefs to the UN. No requests to Congress. No petitions to the American people. No Code Pink protests (curious, but whatever). The NATO No-fly Zone over Libya has in no small part assisted rebels as they fought to overthrow the government of Muammar Gadda

Jay Murdock

Apr 3, 2011
4 min

Whither the Health Care Reform Bill

Lincoln Mitchell – Harriman Institute, Columbia University Posted: 04/01/2011 01:21 PM ET March 23rd was the one year anniversary of the passage of the health care reform bill. This date came and went with very little fanfare or media attention. The anniversary was overlooked partially because of the import of today’s issues including the no fly zone in Libya, the aftermath of the tsunami in Japan and the ongoing budget fights in Washington, but it was also overlooked because

Conservatives Ignore Their Own Recent Views of Gaddafi

Jay Murdock

Mar 24, 2011
2 min

Conservatives Ignore Their Own Recent Views of Gaddafi

Jackson Williams: Austin-based writer, Posted: March 23, 2011 11:38 AM On Tuesday night’s O’Reilly Factor, the Fox News host again showed his carnival barker’s chutzpah. Bill O’Reilly, leading off his “talking points” segment with a call for the absolute ouster of Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi, insisted it’s the only viable outcome because, after all, the guy “killed Americans.” This was a reference to the ’88 bombing of Pan Am 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 253 on board

Instead of Bombing Dictators, Stop Selling Them Bombs

Jay Murdock

Mar 23, 2011
4 min

Instead of Bombing Dictators, Stop Selling Them Bombs

By Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis When all you have is bombs, everything starts to look like a target. And so after years of providing Libya’s dictator with the weapons he’s been using against the people, all the international community — France, Britain and the United States — has to offer the people of Libya is more bombs, this time dropped from the sky rather than delivered in a box to Muammar Gaddafi’s palace. If the bitter lesson of Iraq and Afghanistan has taught us a

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Wealth Inequality: Core Challenge for National Security

Score Obama’s Proxy War a Clear Win

Whither the Health Care Reform Bill

Conservatives Ignore Their Own Recent Views of Gaddafi

Instead of Bombing Dictators, Stop Selling Them Bombs

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