European Union

The dream of European union as a path to peace and prosperity is a worthy one.  It was not, however, the actual substance of the existing European Union as a reality.  

Should the mammoth size of the agreement set off alarm bells that much more is involved than “free trade”?

The much maligned Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez might have been on to something, although possibly inadvertently, in her interview January 6, 2019 with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes. 

Greece is on the verge of settling the repayment of its bailout loans from the International Monetary Fund, European banks and other creditors.

Leaders from around the world have assembled in Bonn, Germany to celebrate their abysmal failure to meet the carbon-dioxide emissions reduction goals established under the Paris climate agreement in 2015.

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in France has received over $48 million from America’s National Institutes of Health (NIH), to determine whether various chemicals cause cancer in humans.

I am a retired musician. I play three instruments – but I sang, is what I mainly did. My first band in high school was big into three-part vocal harmonies. We covered a bunch of songs – and wrote a few – that featured this rousing sound.

America’s Founding Fathers did not encourage unlimited immigration, but neither did they prevent or discourage it by any federal legislation.  They believed most decisions should be left to individual states to regulate.

China talks a tough game but never fails to put up its word on the environmental front. Now the world looks to them to be a leader in spite of the US leaving Paris.

The expected guilty EU antitrust verdict against Alphabet-Google’s flagship “general search service” for abusing its dominance, will be a tipping point for Alphabet-Google this summer.

Will Greece avoid financial disaster one more time by somehow pulling one more rabbit out of a hat? It seems unlikely, but we shall know fairly soon

Since 2006, Google has been a well-known corporate leader, funder, and vocal proponent of the net neutrality movement. The movement calls for the strongest possible utility regulation of ISPs and banning any potential ISP software from blocking or degrading the free flow of Web traffic.

An often forgotten truth is that it is not just military warfare that can cause injury to innocent bystanders, the same inescapable happens in economic warfare initiated by governments, as well. But in the latter case, the human “collateral damage” is a targeted victim.