The ruling class, made up of the traditional elites that run the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, is employing draconian forms of censorship on its right-wing and left-wing critics in a desperate effort to cling to power. The traditional elites were discredited for pushing through a series of corporate assaults on workers, from deindustrialization…
In his classic work “Democratic Ideals and Reality”, Halford Mackinder pointed out that the development of the economy of Britain and Germany in the 19th century and the subsequent actions of the governments of these countries that led to the First World War were influenced by the same source – this is Adam Smith’s book…
It seems we may have reached the moment when it is time to say goodbye. It has been fun, educational and sometimes cathartic – for me at least. I hope you got something from our time together too. I am not going anywhere, of course. Not for now at least. I love to write. For…
In a world of chronic shortages China has realised that commodities hold more value than cash. The current trade war with China began at the very outset of the Trump administration. Apparently alarmed at America’s dependence on Chinese goods, particularly the extent to which its defence industries are reliant on Chinese components and rare earths,…
It is difficult to talk to addicts about addictions and it is even harder to do so when their embrace of the drug of choice has dire consequences. I once asked the ether if God had a cell phone, and although God didn’t reply, it was a rhetorical question, so I didn’t expect an answer…
The fourth industrial revolution is here, are you ready? Do you also wake-up in the morning with the feeling that everything is a bad dream and you have to pinch yourself but then realize that the bad dream is reality? The developments are threatening and also grotesque and absurd. At the same time, the situation…
