Russia is in a nutcracker today, facing two fundamental pressures that are irreconcilable. Internally, Putin has made Russia the planet’s most unequal large country. There is mounting social pressure for change. Externally, new large gas deposits have been uncovered in Ukraine that could overturn Russia’s only source of external influence…

The people in the picture below have two things in common: 1. They criticized Putin. 2. They are dead. This account is being written because some commentators on the current war in Ukraine have tried to blame the Americans, Europeans, Ukrainians and everyone except the Russians for making war inevitable…

What do you call a country that can claim to be both the birthplace of the telephone and to have the world’s highest-priced communications? You call it Canada. And Canada has some important lessons for the U.S….including why Americans need to elect Gavin Newsom as President. Wait…what?! Yes, it hangs…

One hundred years ago the mightiest pressure group ever to arise in American history upended the Constitution that had governed the country for 131 years. A coalition of moralists drove a freedom-loving people to give up a private right that had been taken for granted by millions of people since…

Russia’s collapse today is probable, not just possible. Russia is already disappearing from the world economy.

Imagine that you have no money. I mean, many of us are short on money, but imagine that you actually do have funds, but can’t get to them because the online banking system is closed down. Stores cannot process your payments. Mobile and internet services are cut off. Banks, debit…

Michael de Adder, political cartoonist for major papers like the Washington Post, has advised that Facebook has banned the above image from certain profiles “for violent or graphic content”. https://twitter.com/deAdder/status/1542870965721473026?t=exkVTTg0cxjv8VYpqQSMlg&s=03 Facebook defines that as “imagery that shows the violent death of a person or people by accident or murder. Imagery…

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson joined the Supreme Court today. She is the first female African-American justice. Her arrival coincides with the Court’s upending of five decades of law on abortion that saw the reversal of Roe v. Wade. During her Senate confirmation Hearings she endured anger, constant interruptions, and vile…

Many people have not been fully aware of how low a portion of America has fallen. Thanks to the Supreme Court, we can now see it. We are able to see it clearly because the decision against Roe has revealed it for what it is. Roe showed that America has…