A few days ago I mentioned the false story circulating about the Iranian government’s proposal to make non-Moslems wear some form of colored identification. That story turned out to be a pack of lies written by Amir Taheri. I speculated that the story was an attempt to lay some groundwork so that the administration could […]

I know that this sounds boring, but bear with me! The IMF is largely a tool of American foreign policy, or so it is deemed by many a foreign nation whose government has been lectured by some American economist or Treasury official. The lecture usually takes the form of advocating austerity as a solution to […]