Germany is frowning on Russia. Again. I bet there are a few people spinning in their graves on this news. The German government believes that international law allows Ukraine to launch attacks on the territory of Russia as a measure of self-defense. It has also approved a $2.9-billion …

Yevgeny Prigozhin as denounced Russian statements about “huge Ukrainian losses” as “absurd science fiction”. He has warned that Russia could face a revolution similar to those of 1917 and lose the war in Ukraine unless the elite got serious about fighting the war. He expanded his view saying that If…

Russia has just perpetrated what could be the largest man-made disaster of this century. Moscow has just exploded the walls of a major dam that provides water that cools Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, and the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine has suffered a major breach. Its action shows the…

Lately headlines have appeared about a childish squabble between the leaders of two gangs of Putin’s fighters. This has nothing to do with fighting a common enemy, unless that common enemy is another member of Putin’s gang called the Military. The heads of the Private Military Company (PMC) Yevgeny Prigozhin…

American employers today face a challenge: it’s hard hiring new workers when their numbers have evaporated under the hot sun of pandemic retirements. Their potential workforce, in other words, is already employed. Payrolls in May increased by 339,000, better than the 190,000 Dow Jones estimate and making us wonder what…

Both China and Taiwan have told Elon Musk to stay in his lane when he started coming out with peace plans for them. Musk said the conflict between Taiwan and China could be resolved by making the island a “special administrative zone” similar to Hong Kong. The Taiwanese officials lashed…

Intercepted calls between Russian soldiers provide a chilling indication of what they are doing to civilians and what their orders are for the future. I have captured the texts in the video to show the captions, translated. …

We are heading into the final chapter of the history of the autocrats, who we can now collectively label as a ‘Decline of Dictators’. Much like phrases like ‘A Murder of Crows’ or ‘A Conspiracy of Ravens’, “decline” works well for today’s autocrats. Dictators are in trouble. There are only…

I have just been told that a friend of mine has died from cancer. It was eleven days from diagnosis to death. She was a warm and giving person, and she will be missed. The first horror I remember as a child was being told that everyone would die. I…