With the rise of financialized asset bubbles as the source of our “growth,” family home went from shelter to speculative asset. This transition accelerated as financialization (turning everything into a financial commodity to be leveraged and sold globally for a quick profit) spread into the once-staid housing sector in the…
Writing about politics these days is a challenge because things move nearly at the speed of social media. One day, the Trump administration announces some move that generates outrage on the left and cheers on the right, only for that decision to be reversed by tweet and then revived…
What’s right is what’s left if you do everything else wrong. –Robin Williams It is evident to all Americans who have been paying attention that the left is doubling down on stupid. They are throwing all the power they think they have behind an MS-13 gangbanger whom they have decided…
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, one of the most knowledgable and seasoned law practitioners in the US, has expressed concern about federal district judge Boasberg’s threat to hold President Trump in contempt for refusing to allow Boasberg to determine whether or not the executive branch can enforce US immigration…
Representatives of WHO member states have agreed on a draft of the “pandemic accord” that is scheduled to be voted on next month. “The nations of the world made history in Geneva today,” Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the WHO, said after the member states agreed…
“Austrians will soon be strangers in their own country.” For the first time, Muslim students are the largest religious group in Vienna’s schools, underlining the incredible demographic transformation taking place in the Austrian city. The Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) is now raising the alarm. Muslim students now account…
It was a tremor that shook the financial markets in the trading days following Liberation Day, when tariffs were imposed on almost every country in the world. One of the big winners was gold. After a brief setback below USD 3,000, the USD 3,200 mark was broken on April 11,…
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…
