SocietalPressure CookerAmericans’psychological immune system has been deleteriously degraded with never-ending,elevated stress after two years of lockdowns and restrictive movements. Thenightmare continues in a different form seamlessly after the easement of pandemicrestrictions as re-openings and greater freedom of movement have been greetedwith a sudden NASA-trajectory of hyper-inflation.Explodingcommercial and personal debt has
War & Weather | Agricultural Global Markets in a ViseThe Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine has profoundly accelerated the dramatic spike in wheat – classified as a strategic grain - and other agricultural prices due to Russia’s blockade of exports with resultant shortages in the world market.UkraineWith respect to
Comparative AutocraticMethodologiesNot to be outdone byhis Chinese counterparts, Putin has boldly and brutally undertaken his ownBridge & Road Initiative (BRI), Russian style, with the ultimate objectiveof linking his two annexed “pearls”, Crimea and the Donbas region, andeventually landlocking Ukraine. The warm port cities along Ukrainian south arethe pearls in this
China’s Pre-EmptiveSanctionsChina’s never-ending war of“zero tolerance” against pandemic outbreaks with draconian lockdowns inmega-cities, notably Shanghai and more recently Beijing, represent pathologicalefforts of achieving the unattainable objective of complete eradication.The other perhaps conspiratorialpossibility is that, by design or default, the Chinese leadership is convenientlyusing the outbreak as a stealth foreign tool
The Information Ghost GunsThe public/private partnership’s 21st century communicationefforts to win the heart & minds of the citizenry, domestically andinternationally, has taken a quantum leap in sophistication from the days whenradio, television, print media dominated the information highway.The internet has provided an unprecedented global immediacy of truth& lies to anyone