On COI #710, Kyle Anzalone interviews Joe Terwilliger on his previous meetings with Kim Jong Un and how he can help Donald Trump ink a deal with the North Koreans.
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Ron Paul on Trump’s Early Appointments: Are The Neocons Back?
On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:
Yesterday was a bad day for those who endorse “America first” in our foreign policy. With reported Trump appointments of neocons Elise Stefanik (UN Ambassador), Mike Waltz (National Security Advisor), and… Marco Rubio (Secretary of State), many who hoped that Trump 2.0 would be different than Trump 1.0 are feeling dejected and betrayed. Is there any hope left? Also today: Iran strongly denied any plan to assassinate Trump – who’s lying?
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Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.
Rubio Would Be a Terrible Choice for Secretary of State
Trump named the very hawkish Rep. Elise Stefanik to be the next ambassador to the United Nations. I discussed that in a new column today. As if that weren’t bad enough, Marco Rubio is being considered for Secretary of State and there are reports that he is likely to get the job:
Meanwhile, Republican Party sources assess that Trump’s rejection of Mike Pompeo increases the likelihood of Senator Marco Rubio being selected as the next Secretary of State.
Rubio, a Florida senator and strong supporter of Israel, has grown considerably closer to Trump in recent months and attended the victory event in West Palm Beach on Tuesday night. According to two sources, the chances of his selection as America’s top diplomat are high.
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Will Trump Allow Hawks to Hijack His Presidency Again?
On COI #709, Kyle Anzalone discusses Trump’s potential foreign policy staff.
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The Military-Industrial Complex Is Fueling Climate Catastrophe
As I write, New York City is an unsettling 70 degrees in November. Meanwhile, a cohort of war profiteers, their pockets lined by the very industries destroying our climate, are flying to COP, the annual U.N. climate summit hosted by a petrostate, no less. They’re gathering to “discuss climate solutions” – but one of the world’s biggest contributors to the climate crisis will be entirely overlooked: the U.S. military-industrial complex.
The world’s largest institutional emitter, the U.S. military, sits beyond the reach of the metrics meant to hold countries accountable for climate pollution. Exempt from transparency requirements at the COP or within U.N. climate agreements, the military sector is, in fact, the leading institutional driver of the climate crisis. It burns through fossil fuels on a scale that surpasses entire nations while waging wars that destroy lives, communities, and the land itself. It’s a deliberate omission, one meant to hide the environmental and social costs of militarism from view.
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A Veterans Day Tribute
This originally appeared on November 11, 2008.
Every Veterans Day, I try to do something special to remember or honor a veteran. I don’t like the standard flag-waving event that this day has become for many people. In many Veterans Day speeches, the speakers talk about the hundreds of thousands of American veterans who gave their lives for our freedom. The problem with that is twofold: (1) Very few of those who were killed in war literally gave their lives but instead had their lives ripped away, and (2) very few of them fought for our freedom. So my tribute this time is to a veteran who did not give his life and knew that he wasn’t fighting for our freedom. That veteran is Richard H. Timberlake, Jr.
Dick Timberlake, who has become a personal friend, is a fairly well-known monetary economist and a veteran of World War II. Timberlake’s book They Never Saw Me Then is his account of his time in World War II, first training to be a pilot in the United States and then being a co-pilot of a B-17 on bombing raids over Germany. The book ends with his being wounded in one such raid and then recuperating in hospitals in England and the United States. The title of his book, he explains, comes from the thought that he and his buddies had about their wish for various friends, relatives, and “enemies”: “Boy, if they could see me now.” But because they couldn’t see him then, he writes, his recourse is to tell the story himself. He tells it well.