Commenting on three serious indictments announced by Attorney General Merrick Garland, we reported on 24 October how China’s spy agency, the Ministery Of State Security (MSS), fooled the western world into projecting … Read the rest
Putin on a String
In the spring of 2018, four years before his second invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered an unusual speech about the growing strength of the … Read the rest
Chinese Spies Part One
Top officials from the U.S. Justice Department unveiled a slate of indictments against 13 Chinese nationals accused of spying on behalf of Beijing and seeking … Read the rest
Economic and Real-Time Revolution
While labor productivity growth in five advanced economies has seen a downturn, as creators and workers realize their collective power in the coming months and years, these movements will grow in … Read the rest
Beginning and Endings of Empires
Where are the World’s Ongoing Conflicts
What can be said about US Involvement and the Current Situation in Afghanistan
Currently in the process of hastily letting go of 20-year occupation that began shortly after Sept. 11, cost over $2 trillion, took more than 170,000 … Read the rest
What Next With Afghanistan
As the otherwise well-informed Economist (based in London) writes, it is too soon to know whether history will add Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan … Read the rest