Google’s $32 billion purchase of Wiz hands its global data security to an Israeli firm founded and staffed by ex-military cyber spies from the IDF’s notorious Unit 8200. Google recently announced it would acquire Israeli-American cloud security firm Wiz for $32 billion. The price tag — 65…
Trump’s actions were neither ‘spur of the moment’, nor whimsical. The ‘tariff solution’ had been pre-prepared by his team over years. The Trump ‘shock’ – his ‘de-centring’ of America from serving as pivot to the post-war ‘order’ via the dollar – has triggered a deep cleavage between those who…
In addition to his already stated interests in natural resources and control over them, Donald Trump has established himself as a proponent of the development and active use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in various fields, since already on the second day of his official tenure as president of the…
I openly struggle with the American Empire. I find it a tiresome and arrogantly accosted mantle that was torn from the British after the Second World War. Our noble moment of leadership during the Suez Canal crisis, where we asserted that the British should not be entitled to the…
The supreme joy of having children, the existential thrill of raising them, the human dignity bestowed upon us by the always undeserved and unwavering love of a child—in short, each and every one of the most self-evident anthropological certainties are on their way to becoming catacomb truths, as unutterable…
The US might pressure him to assemble a government of national unity on pain of once again suspending military and intelligence aid if he refuses to dilute his power in lieu of holding elections. Ukraine extended martial law until 6 August following Zelensky’s request earlier this week, which will prevent elections…
The questions begin to mount. I don’t consider myself an expert on tariffs but do know they played an important role in American history before the country changed into a global(ist) empire. There was no income tax until 1913, but there had always been tariffs. One was more or…
The American founding fathers recognized the problem el gato malo highlights: their system couldn’t work if the people weren’t morally upright. Freeloaders aren’t morally upright. This struck me as interesting (and topical) let me take a stab: to my mind, the…
Cosmopolitan was not the only magazine whose covers caught my attention as a child. There were also celebrity gossip magazines dishing all the latest on Liz and Dick (Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton). Another celebrity couple I particularly remember from childhood is Gregg Allman and Cher, then recently divorced from…
A funny thing happened when Netanyahu arrived in Washington to tell the Trump administration about how they would proceed with Iran. The Trump side told Netanyahu that his longed for war with Iran was not happening. Instead, the Trump administration was starting talks with Iran concerning a negotiated settlement…
