Archive for February 2018
Afrin: A Mess of American Making
By Matt Cohen In northwestern Syria, the small Kurdish enclave of Afrin is quickly becoming the setting of an international showdown between the United States and Turkey. The prospect of such a faceoff has been speculated on since the territorial degradation of ISIS given the need to both secure liberated ISIS territory and support…
Read MoreGlobalization is the Scapegoat Not the Sin
By Joe Losavio If the elections of 2016 taught us anything it is that there is widespread agreement on the cause of society’s ills: Globalization. Assailed from the right for shipping jobs off to undeserving foreign workers, the left for lining the pockets of corporate bosses; in the developed world its main beneficiaries…
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