A week ago I went to the downtown Charlottesville library and was in the audience when Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson gave this talk on the current state of the American empire.
Wilkerson served as chief of staff for Colin Powell when...
China's message for couples after decades of limiting families to just one child? Please have more children! Why the turnabout? China’s aging. By 2040, projections show that 24 percent of the population will be aged 65 or older, a...
Market "fixes" fuel wealth/income inequality which feeds political and social instability.
There are two Grand Narratives about the U.S. economy and asset markets: the mainstream narrative is that nothing is fundamentally wrong with the economy, and so no structural changes (and...
"The most important surveillance story you will see for years just went online, revealing how AT&T became the internet's biggest enemy, secretly collaborating against its customers and partners to destroy your privacy."
"It's eye-opening and ominous the extent to which...
The US government has warned its jihadist allies in southwest Syria that there would no US military rescue from their impending defeat by Syrian government forces. With one of the last pockets of ISIS and al-Qaeda cleaned out of...
In a time in which President Trump is saying that the U.S. government will lift economic sanctions against North Korea if it “denuclearizes,” why not lift the decades-old U.S. economic embargo against Cuba? After all, Cuba “denuclearized” back in...
