On Thursday, President Biden announced more sanctions on Russia in response to Moscow’s military offensive in Ukraine. The sanctions aim to cut exports to Russia, block the assets of four major Russian banks, and target individual Russian “elites.” For now, the US and...
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Masks and Me: How Did We Get Here?
by Wilton Alston | Feb 24, 2022 | Featured Articles
“The spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless. A single zealot may become persecutor, and better men be his victims. It can never be too often repeated that the time for fixing every essential right, on a legal...
Vladimir Putin Launches Multi-Pronged Attacked on Ukraine
by Dave DeCamp | Feb 24, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said Thursday that Russia has “has just launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.” A series of explosions were reported across Ukraine, including near the capital Kyiv. Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to Ukraine’s interior...
Putin’s Donbas Move Threatens U.S. Global Dominance
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Feb 23, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to recognize two break-off republics in eastern Ukraine as independent states, stoking cries of horror and condemnation from the Western keepers of the ‘rules-based international order.’ The Russian legislature passed a bill...
Caution or Catastrophe: Public Health’s COVID Response
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Feb 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, proponents of lockdowns, shelter-in-place orders, mask mandates and other coercive government interventions have characterized these measures as benevolently “erring on the side of caution.” Now, as the grim toll of those public...
Workers of the World Unite (Just Kidding!)
by Tommy Salmons | Feb 22, 2022 | Featured Articles
Nearly a month ago a convoy of tractor trailers and passenger vehicles full of protesters descended on Ottawa, the capitol of Canada. Their message has been clear: “lift all mandates and COVID restrictions.” The Canadian Government’s response (in addition to invoking...
Sanctions Don’t Hurt Only Russia
by Daniel Lacalle | Feb 22, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The escalation of tension in Ukraine has reminded us of something many investors seemed to have forgotten: geopolitical risk. Sanctions and the inevitable drop in trade have proven to generate a significant negative impact on the different economies involved. We know...
Inflation: An Ontological Reality of Modern Economic Life
by Vibhu Vikramaditya | Feb 21, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
The United States of America and economies around the world are suffering from levels of inflation unprecedented in the twenty-first century. While the origins of COVID-19 are debatable, the causes of inflation are not. They lie in undisputed human actions; actions...