Fear is an instrument of social control and repression. Time and again, terrified people bow to the will of their ruling authorities even when harming their own rights and well-being. The philosopher Seneca once said that “(t)here are more things…likely to frighten us than there are to crush us. We suffer more often in imagination…
Vladimir Putin has decided how Russia is going to pay for the corona-virus. He’s going to tax the rich. It’s a remedy that most Americans would support if they were given the choice, but they weren’t asked. Instead, Congress passed a $2 trillion stimulus package for which the American taxpayer will be held entirely responsible….
The democratically elected and legitimate government of the Syrian Arab Republic is taking World War C very seriously because of the acute threat that COVID-19 poses to the war-torn country’s people, which completely debunks the fake news narratives actively circulating throughout the Alt-Media Community claiming that this virus either isn’t that big of a deal…
The liberal world order is a shambles. The coronavirus pandemic will spell the end of full-spectrum dominance by Britain, the United States, and those in the European Union tethered so inextricably to the NATO alliance. A quote below from a Reuters report citing French President Emmanual Macron, it sums up the fall of the mediocre…
We are at a critical moment in the history of politics and markets. Everyday the U.S. government stares into the fiscal and monetary abyss and chucks trillions in hoping that will be enough to finally fill it. We stand by hoping that it will work to reflate markets collapsing from a catastrophic mispricing of assets….
With most of Europe gripped by Covid-19 panic and in lockdown mode, Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko sees no cause for alarm — and life has gone on as normal. But is it a level-headed response or a risky gamble? Belarus has been lucky so far with less than 200 confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus….
