Donald Trump is fond of blaming Barack Obama and Joe Biden for the debacle in Ukraine, but he is wrong. A major share of the blame also lies with Donald Trump because he oversaw the dramatic growth of the Ukrainian military during his first term and, to this day, brags about supplying Ukraine with Javelin missiles. I am no fan of Barack Obama… in fact, I’ve been a staunch critic, but the data on the growth of the Ukrainian military during Trump’s first term is irrefutable.
Finance
Joseph E. Stiglitz , Dean Baker , Arjun Jayadev: Intellectual Property for the Twenty-First-Century Economy
Intellectual property rights have become the biggest monopoly scam in the world. They have been supported by the World Trade Organisation, which in turn is dominated by those nations home to these monopolistic multinationals. The […]
Finance
Thomas Frank: Trump’s enemy is not your friend: why we shouldn’t defend Amazon
Substitute Brexit and Remain and you have the same story. We let ourselves for emotional reasons and political laziness accept binary decisions. The world is not black and white or Manichean as the intellectuals call […]
Corruption
Reuters: EU watchdog slams Germany for lapses in Wirecard fraud
The German government is not sweeping the dirt under the carpet, it is shovelling it, especially SPD finance minister and chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz. Read here
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