Help Perestroika by Doing Nothing
The new line that we are being fed from the Bush Administration and repetitively from the media is: the United States must “help” perestroika succeed. Why we should…
Category: Foreign Policy
Captive Nations Week’s 30th Anniversary
An observer asked the old man, “Why in the world are you wasting your money buying a lottery ticket? Don’t you know your chance of winning is only…
Expectations About China
The funniest thing to watch on television during the last two weeks has been the shock and disbelief in the faces and voices of the TV networks’ elite…
Selling the Brady Plan on TV
Watching the latest MacNeil-Lehrer documentary on Third World debt must leave most listeners wondering what the problem really is. The piece showed many aspects of this issue but…
Four National Security Challenges — June 1989
Facing Reality About Trade with Japan
American consumers are immensely better of when we buy radios, televisions, VCRs, CD players, and fax machines from Japan. The Japanese make those items better and cheaper than…
Renounce the Panama Canal Non-Treaty
The first step in the transfer of our U.S. Canal at Panama to the corrupt, drug-peddling, pro-Communist military dictator Manuel Noriega, under the 1978 Carter giveaway treaty will…
The Contras are Hanging On
President Franklin D. Roosevelt kept a man on his staff to read small town newspapers and report the pulse of the people so the White House would not…
Eliminate Tax Deductions for Foreign Loans and Losses
Rescheduling and convertibility are not exactly household words, but they may become so soon. Those are the names for the mechanisms by which some big U.S. banks and…