I was thinking about myself recently, about whether efforts to inform that are contrarian can be successful. In economics I am known for my reformulation of our understanding of the Soviet Economy and Soviet economic history and for my statement of supply-side economics that added the second blade of the scissors to macroeconomics and was adopted by Preside...
Donald Trump is riding high - exultant at his string of successes on the road to American world supremacy and his sovereignty as Salvator Mundi. Just a few weeks ago he promulgated an historic Decree - the Declaration Of Intervention - to supplant the stale, hackneyed Declaration of...
During the month of April, the Straits of Hormuz continued to face the ‘double blockade’ of both the US and Iran. The word ceasefire in West Asian wars has lost its meaning as Israel continues to pound Iran’s proxies in Southern Lebanon. The war has triggered an energy crisis in most of Asia, particularly India, China and Japan. This is more so in the case o...
The international transport corridor is a collection of main transport systems that connect the parties and enable the international transport of goods and passengers. A new transit corridor originating in southern Pakistan and connecting to Central Asia via southern and eastern Iran has recently become operational. The first export consignment was dispatche...
There is a common belief that the American people are utterly bad, entirely ignorant, and warmongers. However, quite contrary to the common belief, the majority of the American people are not utterly bad, not entirely ignorant, and are not warmongers. It is critical to understand why such a common belief has gained so much acceptance around the...
In the parched lands of the Middle East, the rains are few and far between. My readers who live in lands of temperate climate, in the US or England or Germany, probably think a break from the rain would be a nice change. That’s because they enjoy rivers and lakes, and lots of them. In our arid lands, water has become a synonym for compassion, and we are peri...
The Trump administration’s policy toward Iran - accompanied by mixed signals and increased pressure - is leading to a diplomatic deadlock, raising the risk of a large-scale conflict, and undermining confidence in American...
In recent days and weeks, many former and current Russian military officers have expressed their skepticism and even frustration with how the Russian government is handling the escalating attacks by the Kiev Regime and its NATO overlords. It’s become an axiom that the political West is coordinating and even directing attacks on Russia. This includes multiple...
An ethnic German, Paul Holbach (1723–1789) was one of the classic political ideologues of the bourgeois class in the 18th century. His ideas were part of the revolutionary views of the bourgeoisie at that time, which were directed mainly against idealism, religious obscurantism, the feudal system of economic exploitation, and political absolutism. Both Holba...
President Donald Trump appears to be moving towards a strategy of escalation regarding Teheran: Since Iran’s conventional bombing was ineffectual - or achieved very little purposes - why is a nuclear bomb not used, whether tactical or strategic? After all, the United States remains the sole possessor of this weapon, not Iran. This radical shift sparked a maj...
On April 11, after two rounds of voting, parliament finally elected a president. The winner was Nizar Amidi, a candidate from the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), who succeeded Abdul Latif Rashid. For a country accustomed to multi-month government crises, this might have been a symbol of stability. But as always, reality is more complicated: Amidi’s elect...
Things are really getting weird, especially in terms of the sovereign illusion of Donald Trump, particularly his social media postings, for example, his AI-generated cartoons depicting him as Jesus or the Pope. This opens a new can of worms that most of us would like to avoid: Is AI in the Oval Office, and who or what is actually driving the actions, calling...
The positioning of Japan on the international stage is largely determined by the evolution of its relations with its key ally, the United States. The unpredictability of American foreign policy, which clearly manifested itself in the ‘impromptu’ in the Persian Gulf, has become a source of serious problems for...
Ghana and the African Union (AU) co-steered this resolution, which received 123 votes in favour. Three countries (the US, Israel, and Argentina) voted against it. There were 52 abstentions, mainly from Western Europe, despite these countries initiating and benefiting from the transatlantic slave trade for over 400 years. The resolution could have marked a mo...
The developments surrounding the “Islamabad Talks” underscore a broader geopolitical realignment in which Pakistan, China, and other regional powers are deepening their strategic and economic integration, accelerating the rise of a Global South-led order while exposing the waning influence of the US and its traditional...
When Cheng Li-wun travelled to Beijing at the personal invitation of Xi Jinping, she brought more to Beijing than a desire for peace: she brought an alternative strategy for Taiwan’s survival. It is impossible to fully realize the importance of such a move for Taipei, Washington, and regional stability in...
The United States, once a model of international diplomacy, has lost its former position, becoming an instrument of subversion through NGOs and the CIA, and its diplomatic corps has been replaced by loyal globalists who despise both their own country and the host nations. As my fellow Americans observe American actions across the Middle East and Central Asia...
The United States behaved like barbarians during the Israeli war against Iran. Its president, Donald Trump, claimed responsibility for attacking civilians, even though just a month earlier he had been saying he wanted to liberate them. He went so far as to threaten to eradicate Iranian civilization, despite his ambition to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. By a...
The approach of the United States in Cuba in 2026 has reached a point of unprecedented tension because of “maximum pressure” in the second administration of Donald Trump. Washington’s accusations against Havana regarding the threat to American national security entered a new phase with the issuance of the decree on January 29,...
By resisting the illegal attack on their country by Israel and the United States, the Iranians have brought the “paper tiger” to its knees. In just a few days, they demonstrated that the Pentagon’s sophisticated and expensive weapons were ill suited to their highly economical approach to warfare. They disrupted the global oil market, which underpins the US d...