The staggering rise in the value of Bitcoin and all other cryptocurrencies reflects the sharp demise in public support for the governments of the world’s leading economies and the global financial system that they control. At the start of 2023, the Bitcoin price-per-unit was around $17,000. By the …
Read More »What’s Driving the Houthis?
As it stands, the Houthis are well-positioned to attain five overlapping objectives in their intervention on behalf of Hamas as Israel fights to dislodge it from Gaza following the October 7 attacks. When the Houthis began launching drones, rockets, and missiles at Israel and maritime traffic in the …
Read More »The real reason people are flocking to red states
Lewis Andrews It’s no secret that Americans are moving from blue states to red ones. According to recently released Census Bureau data, the five with the largest population loss to other states between July 2022 and July 2023 were California (-338,371), then New York (-216,778), Illinois (-83,839), New …
Read More »The Myth of an Apolitical Military: A Call to Action
Over a century ago the Progressive leadership of the Democrats seceded philosophically from the Founding Principles of the American experiment.[i] Rejecting the principles of natural law and unalienable individual rights, they adopted the statist relativism of Jeremy Bentham’s Utilitarianism and that of his philosophical heirs. They embraced the …
Read More »Is Trump Above the Law?
A defining feature of a democracy that sets it sharply apart from autocracy is that no citizen is above the law. Donald Trump believes he enjoys unique impunity. U.S. Attorney-General Merrick Garland disagrees. Despite years of attempts by public prosecutors and U.S. Congressional committees to bring Trump to …
Read More »The Unfolding Aftermath of Gaza
Eng. Saleem Al Batayneh Amidst the gloom and the pervasive sense of conspiracy theories that permeate our thoughts and surroundings, a crucial question lingers: What awaits us in the aftermath of the Gaza tragedy? Despite the weightiness of the current atmosphere, it is imperative to address this concern …
Read More »Putin’s Russia and Trump’s U.S.: Converging in Resentment?
Russians are frustrated because they lost the Cold War. But why would right-of-center Americans, long proud to be the victors, feel a similarly deep resentment? In the 1970s, Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov developed his theory of convergence – how the Soviet and U.S. systems would draw closer together. …
Read More »The U.S. Faces Its Greatest Peril Since the Civil War
Republicans who claim to put country before party must rise up along with their Democratic colleagues to save the United States from Donald Trump. I am still at pains to internalize what sinister schemes Republican leaders in the House and Senate are concocting only to retain power, at …
Read More »US Default?
Instead of hungering for power and party control, U.S. politicians should be hungering for solutions to the economic problems that vex the country. For U.S. Republicans and Democrats, default is a game of chicken where no one veers off course until the last minute. Rather than finding a …
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