Do you think it relies on its military dominance in order to extract that surplus?
Do you think it relies on its military dominance in order to extract that surplus?
Geopolitical power is quite complex. The US does at various points uses it's power to punish countries that act against US economic interests.
It's very hard to estimate the economic values extracted via wiretapping everything and using that information when it's needed.
In general if you would predict based on economic history that value transfer to the party with the military power is happening and you see that value transfer is happening, it should get you thinking. &quo...
In the big survey, political views are divided into large categories so that statistics are possible. This article is an attempt to supply a text field so that we can get a little better view of the range of beliefs.
My political views aren't adequately expressed by "libertarian". I call myself a liberal-flavored libertarian, by which I mean that I want the government to hurt people less. The possibility that the government is giving too much to poor people is low on my list of concerns. I also believe that harm-causing processes should be shut down before support systems
So, what political beliefs do you have that don't match the usual meaning of your preferred label?