Epstein Secrets

hook for large-scale support" of the government for many years. It goes on to compare the NATO occupation for Afghanistan to the previous attempt by the Soviet Union, saying there are "an extraordinary number of similar factors"surrounding the two wars, and that commanders should learn the lessons of the Soviet

because taxes are too low. US corporate taxes is the lowest in the industrialized world — corporate taxes are expected to raise just 1.3 percent of G.D.P. this year, about a third of what it was in the 1950s. American taxes (all levels) are 26.9% of the country's GDP in comparison to Canada 32.2%, Ger

ically used to prepare U.S. armed forces to conduct two major conflicts simultaneously — (the cold war strategy developed in the 1950s to fight both the Soviet Union and China at the same time) and in the case of FDR, Germany and Japan. All four countries are no longer enemies and most are considered allies. As

.75 percent in 2050, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office. By comparison, spending in this category has exceeded 8 percent of G.D.P. in every year since World War II. Spending for defense alone has not been lower than 3 percent of G.D.P. in any year during that period. Applying t

ct government involvement in the markets." Tantawi's skepticism of neoliberal economics has little to do with his loyalty to the socialist model of the Soviet Union, where he received his training as a young officer. Rather, he resents the potential of privatization to encroach on the military's vast economic

, collapse. But Ireland, which has done everything the austerity crowd wanted, is in terrible shape too, with unemployment near 15 percent and real G.D.P. down by double digits. Portugal and Spain are in similarly dire straits. And austerity in a slump doesn't just inflict vast suffering. There is gr

domestic affairs of another country for reasons of state. He merely cannot abide reasons of conscience. "And if they put Jews into gas chambers in the Soviet Union," he remarked to Richard Nixon in 1973, "it is not an American concern. Maybe a humanitarian concern." Yeah, maybe. IT IS NOT ONLY because of Houl

precipitate drop in government spending would equal an economic contraction of more than five hundred billion dollars, more than three per cent of G.D.P. The impact could send a fragile economy back into a recession. "It's two to three times bigger in negative terms than even the biggest year of the