One might expect that the bottom 50%’s weak share of the country’s blowing up wealth would have increased as wisely as the wealth of the billionaires, however alas, no. America’s economy has changed in ways few of the winners seem to see, as they’re too busy cheerleading their own luster and success. In the view […]
By Eric MARGOLIS The really rich, vexed by tax collectors, pesky family members, ex-wives and simply plain burglars, long ago found out the wisdom of concealing their money and property. This is two times true for politicians. An investigation by a worldwide consortium of journalists just examined a huge leakage of 11.9 million records of […]
By Sam PIZZIGATI Demographers recalling– years from now– on America’s yearly death rates are going to find an asterisk on the years 2020 and 2021. The text behind that asterisk is going to offer the reason why numerous more Americans died in those specific years than the years right previously. The explanation, obviously, will be […]
It’s not only France that is stunned by the Anglo-American skullduggery. The other European NATO allies were likewise left in the dark, Finian Cunningham composes. The Gallic gall appearing between France and the United States, Britain and Australia has overshadowed the new military alliance that U.S. President Joe Biden revealed last week for the Indo-Pacific […]
The vast majority of market participants have to do with as all set for a semi-random “volatility occasion” as the dinosaurs were for the meteor strike that doomed them to oblivion. Judging by blissful bettor– oops I mean “financier”– belief and procedures of volatility, risk of a market drop has been near-zero for the previous […]
The age of abundance was only a short-term artifact of the preliminary increase stage of globalization and financialization. Global corporations didn’t go to all the effort to develop quasi-monopolies and cartels for our benefit– they did it to ensure dependably big benefit from control and scarcity. Not all scarcities are artificial, i.e. the outcome of […]
What occurred in Afghanistan was not a simple modification of government. A puppet state responsible for spreading subversion in the region was overthrown. After the Taliban named an interim federal government that was considered rather questionable inside Afghanistan and did not precisely please the nation’s Eurasian neighbors, I asked Dr. Ejaz Akram, Professor of Faith […]
By John GRANT As the US was making its exit from Afghanistan, on August 26th, thirteen United States servicemen and -women were eliminated in a terrorist bomb at the Kabul airport; 20 more were injured. The President saluted the caskets at Dover Air Force Base. Given the nature of a war like Afghanistan, this bombing […]
The Chinese and their growing range of partners have concerned the fundamental insight that the only way to damage terrorism is not by bombing nations to smithereens, but rather by supplying the means of enhancing the lives of individuals. With the recent promise by China, Russia, Iran and Pakistan for renewed defense of Afghanistan’s sovereignty […]
David William Pear says the era in which the British Empire set out to destroy Germany in 1902 — leading the way to World War I — is frighteningly similar to that of today’s U.S. hostility to the rising of China and Russia. In the wake of the new U.S.-U.K.-Australia defense pact, driven by the decline of […]
