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PUTIN, STALIN, AND FDR
The atrocities and wholesale destruction visited upon the nation of Ukraine beginning February 24, 2022, and the annexation of Crimea in 2014 by Vladimir Putin’s Red Army is as much due to the megalomania of a madman as it is to the fecklessness of democracies who have failed to stand together to confront such evil. Tragically, we have seen this movie before.
One can argue that it all started with the 32nd president of the United States. Read More…
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IS THE UNITED STATES AT END OF EMPIRE? OR IS IT TIME FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP IN 2024?
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GERMANY HAS WELCHED ON ITS MORAL OBLIGATIONS BEFORE
Prefatory note: Having traveled on business throughout Germany deploying complex information technology projects, I can vouch for the German predilection with rules, process, programs, and structures. In the end, everything we set out to accomplish as part of our project rollouts we did so on time and on budget thanks to the hard work of our multinational team members. A nagging irritant that we had to endure, however, was an unflagging emphasis on frugality. This quality of the German character borders on the religious and we are seeing it play out on the international stage. Read More…
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IS THE UNITED STATES AT END OF EMPIRE? OR IS IT TIME FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP IN 2024?
AMERICA’S ECONOMIC PRIMACY IS ON A SLIPPERY SLOPE
America’s economic primacy is pretty much behind us. And, I don’t believe there is any chance of reversing a trend that began thirty plus years ago. The modest-case scenario for the nation is to slow the rate of economic decline – never mind social and cultural decline, which are probably lodged in irreversible decay. Read More…
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GREECE REMAINS THE EUROPEAN UNION’S FAVORITE WHIPPING BOY
Prefatory note: In my frequent travels to Greece on business, I have witnessed firsthand the devastation which has been visited on this beautiful land by the nation’s European lenders. But the legacy of the corrosive and misguided actions of the nation’s former Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras – an atheist and former member of the Communist Youth of Greece – and his government in dealing with the nation’s fiscal crisis, and his fecklessness in dealing with the Troika particularly, makes him complicit in the spoliation of the country. Read More…
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SWISS AIR DOES NOT RESPECT SERVICE DOGS
“As the airline of Switzerland, we cherish everything that makes our country unique.” So says an official Swiss Air Tweet.
That slogan, however, is sheer propaganda. As the nation’s flag-carrier, executive staff and working team members should demand more of themselves than the execrable service this customer received after trying to book a business round trip from Miami to Athens with my service dog. After more than a week of repeatedly submitting the required documentation – including my dog’s service training certificate – to servicedogs@swiss. Read More…
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AMERICA’S ADDICTION TO CHINA MUST END OR IT WILL KILL US
China’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak and its aftermath is evidence, if any further evidence is needed, that the totalitarian regime would rather run roughshod over the community of nations and more perversely over its own citizens than to act with the transparency, honesty, and integrity expected of a presumed superpower. Chinese medical professionals who tried to sound an alarm about the virus when it first sprung were seized by police and muzzled so as not to embarrass the mandarins who run the Communist bureaucracy. Read More…
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CUBA AND VENEZUELA: THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE’S AXIS OF EVIL
Editor’s note: President Trump’s speech before the United Nation’s General Assembly, September 24, 2019, made clear that Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro’s Marxist regime was being held afloat with the help of his Cuban communist comrades: “The Dictator Maduro is a Cuban puppet, protected by Cuban bodyguards, hiding from his own people, while Cuba plunders Venezuela’s oil wealth to sustain its own corrupt rule,” said the President. Read More…
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BOOK REVIEW: SEA POWER BY ADMIRAL JAMES STAVRIDIS
It is a sad state of affairs when a four-star Admiral of the United States Navy publishes a book on the geopolitics of sea power that is filled with sloppy research, non-sequiturs, serious omissions, and platitudes. That the book has apparently been praised by the likes of Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense; Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Senator John McCain is further discomfiting. It is inconceivable that these men would be so effusive in their praise if they indeed read the book. Read More…
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A DISREGARD FOR SERVING THE PUBLIC: THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AT WORK
Editor’s note: A recent reader to my blog asked: “I’m interested in your perspective on the recent government stalemate regarding spending. Is this a total disregard for serving the public or rather two sides that are firmly looking to serve their constituents? Your book addresses how to reconcile the seemingly conflicting objectives of pursuing revenue while achieving customer satisfaction. How would you apply the same thinking to this problem?” My response follows:
In today’s economy it is not so much a debate about spending but about debt spending. Read More…
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HOW IDEOLOGY MASQUERADES AS IMPARTIAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Editor’s note: Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Samuelson has
been hugely influential in promoting his views from the day he published his
economics textbook in 1948. He also penned a regular column in Newsweek
magazine for fifteen years during the 1960’s.
Little wonder then, that Samuelson has been referred to by one economic
historian as the “Father of Modern Economics.” Samuelson’s book is
now in its 19th printing and has sold nearly four million copies in over forty
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CLIMATE CHANGE: SCIENCE OR PROPAGANDA?
The fear being stoked by the power elites in academia, business, government, and the media that climate change poses, as the current cliché has it, an “existential” threat to the planet is a threat alright but one that seeks to undermine a sovereign nation’s interests and priorities. Read More…
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