It says more about toxic US domestic politics than the realities of international relations The Russian invasion of Ukraine may very well cause the most casualties from armed conflict that Europe has seen since World War II. The first professional casualty of this war, which occurred well before the tanks rolled over the border, was…
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Yes, There Is a Deep State—But Not the Right Wing’s Caricature
Published in the lobelog.com on March 16, 2017 Link to article The heated controversy over the right wing’s characterization of Donald Trump’s chronic conflict with the U.S. intelligence community as the machinations of “the Deep State” has inevitably generated political pushback from more establishmentarian figures. Paul Pillar on this site and David Remnick in The New…
Essay: Anatomy of the Deep State
Rome lived upon its principal till ruin stared it in the face. Industry is the only true source of wealth, and there was no industry in Rome. By day the Ostia road was crowded with carts and muleteers, carrying to the great city the silks and spices of the East, the marble of Asia Minor,…