The Fraud of IMF-World Bank “Debt Relief” for Poor Countries

November 7, 2020

As the economic effects of the COVID pandemic spread across the world in March and April, the air was filled with promises that poorer countries would be assisted with aid and debt relief to deal with…

COVID-19: A Silent End to the World As We Knew It

November 2, 2020

Opinion

The news that German Chancellor Angela Merkel is against closing EU borders to halt a second deadly wave of coronavirus cases made me realize – they just don’t get is yet. Forty-five million people ha…

Can America Do It All?

October 22, 2020

Opinion

In fiscal year 2020, which ended on Sept. 30, the U.S. government set some impressive new records. The deficit came in at $3.1 trillion, twice the previous record of $1.4 trillion in 2009, which was s…

Lebanon Crisis: The Long Arm of French Neocolonialism Is Back

October 6, 2020

Opinion

Lebanese politicians are scrambling at home and security chiefs are conferring abroad to form a new government in line with French-set deadlines. The new government is expected to embody a new politic…

Infections, Retentions, Creations, And Tensions. In That Order

October 3, 2020

Opinion

Here comes the first October surprise. US President Trump and the First Lady have both tested positive for Covid-19 after one his advisors, Hope Hicks, tested positive for Covid-19 and has also starte…

Debt is the Real Pandemic

September 16, 2020

Opinion

According to the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) latest “Update on the Budget Outlook,” this year’s $3.3 trillion federal deficit is not just three times larger than last year: it is the largest f…

How an “Act of God” Pandemic Is Destroying the West

September 8, 2020

Opinion

The U.S. is Saving the Financial Sector, not the Economy Before juxtaposing the U.S. and alternative responses to the corona virus’s economic effects, I would like to step back in time to show how the…

China and the United States: The 21st Century’s ‘Great Game’

August 25, 2020

Opinion

From 1830 to 1895, the British and Russian empires schemed and plotted over control of Central and South Asia. At the heart of the “Great Game” was the United Kingdom’s certainty that the Russians had…