The Legacy of George Schultz
"Despite their disagreements, Schultz encouraged Reagan to open secret channels with the Soviets ..."
10 February 2021 - 14:37
Jane Graham Reed: Political Roots, Childhood Memories
"I advocate opportunity for all and inclusivity."
2 December 2020 - 18:20
When the Beauty of Nature Backdrops the Atrocities of Man
"... since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse."
25 September 2020 - 11:00
To Comprehend Chinese Foreign Policy, Its History Must Be Understood First
"... China has had at least two distinguishing features ... that of historical memory largely determining its long-term goals, and the use of its cultural values to justify the expansion of its interests."
6 September 2020 - 23:42
Martin Parsons: As the Four-Hundredth Anniversary of the Mayflower Approaches, Has the UK Forgotten Its Significance?
"Surely there should be a national celebration of this momentous event!"
13 August 2020 - 08:52
Year Zero in America
"... millions were forced to toil in the countryside. "Bad elements" and "New People"—intellectuals, government officials, Buddhists, shopkeepers, disfavored ethnicities—were either worked to death in rural collectives or executed outright."
24 June 2020 - 10:00
Martin Parsons: The West’s Preoccupation with Historic White Guilt Is Costing African Lives Today
Boko Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau announced, "Allah instructed me to sell them … I will carry out his instructions … slavery is allowed in my religion and I shall capture people and make them slaves."
23 June 2020 - 13:24
Alex Johnson: There Are No Heroes, Only Antiheroes
"... I would advise you to stop reading The Guardian – considering it was founded by a racist."
12 June 2020 - 20:11
Kissinger’s Self-Penned Eulogy
"The world is not going to be Globalized around a Washington DC “papacy” and it looks like the Multipolar vision will win out slowly over time."
11 May 2020 - 06:01
Lance Roberts: Lessons Forgotten Are Relearned During Bear Markets
"Bear markets are always a reminder of lessons forgotten."
27 April 2020 - 19:48
Coronavirus: Learning from the Second World War’s Industrial Pioneers
"... the UK needs to design, fabricate and control many more of its own products, particularly strategic goods to reduce supply-chain trauma."
24 April 2020 - 08:49
How the Spanish Flu Affected Kenya, and Its Similarities to Coronavirus
"For those depending on subsistence farming, the total or partial crop failure occasioned by poor weather in 1918 and lack of seed supplies worsened the poor health of the population."
22 April 2020 - 19:48
Sir Ian MacGregor: The Implementer of Thatcherism
"By 1935, he had secured work in 1935 at the Kinlochleven aluminium plant, the same place where his father was employed as an accountant, but he was soon recruited as a junior manager by the Glasgow shipbuilding and engineering conglomerate William Beardmore and Company."
22 April 2020 - 07:48
Matthew Ehret: Portillo’s Spirit Haunts the Oligarchy
"Trapped under years of conditionality-laden loans from the IMF and World Bank, Mexico and other nations of the Global South were trapped under usurious debts, underdevelopment ... and poverty with no hope in sight."
11 April 2020 - 23:55
How Woodrow Wilson Let Flu Deaths Go Viral in the Great War
"As coffins piled up in garages in major cities, the president stayed focused – first, on winning the war, and then on securing his internationalist dream, the League of Nations."
8 April 2020 - 19:48
Where Are the Oldest Companies in Existence?
"All in all, these oldest companies paint a historical picture of the major industries which have shaped entire regions."
26 February 2020 - 04:50
Gold’s “Bottom” in 2019 May Mean Big Things for the Near Future
"Gold has been one of the few gainers in the past weeks as most assets have come under a sharp sell-off in response to the coronavirus outbreak and its potential ramifications on the global market."
15 February 2020 - 01:48
Egon von Greyerz: You Cannot Go Wrong with Gold
"There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune"
10 February 2020 - 04:48
If Trump Is Removed, Will the Speaker of the House Not Be the Sovereign?
"If they can do that, they will have succeeded in reverting the power structure within the federal government, reverting it to something much like the government of the Articles of Confederation."
20 January 2020 - 04:48
Michael Snyder: Why Is Iran Flying a Blood Red Flag over a Famous Mosque That Is Directly Associated with the Mahdi?
"Of course President Trump is not going to put up with this, and he has warned the Iranians that he has identified 52 Iranian targets that could potentially be hit…"
7 January 2020 - 01:48
Fifty Remarkable Numbers from 2019
The bird population of North America has declined by 3 billion since 1970.
31 December 2019 - 22:48
Patrick Armstrong: Twenty Years Later, How Did Putin Do?
In 1999, Putin wrote, "It will take us approximately fifteen years and an annual growth of our Gross Domestic Product by 8 percent a year to reach the per capita GDP level of present-day Portugal or Spain." In 2018, Russia’s GDP at purchasing power parity was nearly 12 times as high as Portugal’s, and twice Spain’s.
30 December 2019 - 13:48
Every Coal Power Plant in the World (1927-2019)
Will 2020 provide additional evidence towards a global sea change in coal dependence, or is 2019 just a blip on the radar?
27 December 2019 - 07:48
How the Rich and Influential Are Driven Mad by the True Voice of the Poor
The great northern seats in Labour’s traditional heartlands – Rother Valley, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Wakefield, Bishop Auckland, Sedgefield, Bassetlaw, Grimsby and Bolsover – fell like ninepins. Yet these bourgeois liberals still do not get it. That traditional working-class labour voters are patriots who want their country back.
16 December 2019 - 07:48