Productivity and Growth in America – An Economic Stagnation

 

Productivity and Growth in America – An Economic Stagnation By Helena Glass Key factors which stimulate growth include technological innovation, investment in capital goods (machinery, infrastructure), improvements in human capital (education and training), and the accumulation of natural resources. What can we trade? What can we sell? Read here

Trump Targeted Again: “Deep State” Speculations Abound Amid Iranian Crisis and Missing Scientist’s Scandal By Uriel Araujo Trump may have become, in blunt terms, too much of a liability for segments of the “double government.” His unpredictability, coupled with controversial policies, stands in contrast to Vice President JD Vance, who is widely seen as more disciplined, less compromised, and who had expressed skepticism about the Iran operation. Read here

Monroe Doctrine 2.0: Why U.S. Coercion Alone Will Not Secure a Unipolar Western Hemisphere By Miguel Santos García When the United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth spoke in early March about a “Greater North America” stretching from Greenland to Ecuador and from Alaska to Guyana, he was giving a name to something that had long been implicit in Washington’s strategic posture. Read here

Rumen Radev’s “Progressive Bulgaria” Wins the Elections. What Is a ‘Pro-Russia NATO General’? By Silvia Rousseva It is Bulgaria’s NATO membership that makes Radev, a fighter pilot who had risen to the rank of a Major General and Commander of the Bulgarian Air Force prior to becoming the country’s president in 2017, a NATO-trained officer and commander, or a ‘NATO general.’ Read here

Cuba: Growing Calls to End Unilateral Coercive Measures. “Sanctions Kill” By Jill Clark-Gollub This spring constituents and grassroots organizations have been raising awareness in Congress and in public forums of the harms caused by Unilateral Coercive Measures (UCMs or “sanctions”). Sanctions have become the “go-to” foreign policy tool of the United States government, now impacting a quarter of the global economy and one-third of the world’s population. Read here

Iran Exercises Its Sovereignty Over Its Territorial Waters in the Strait of Hormuz By Prof. Akbar E. Torbat Iran began collecting tolls, ranging from $1 to $2 million, from each ship passing through the Strait of Hormuz. If Iran successfully charges tolls regularly for passage through the Strait, it will have significant strategic and economic implications for Iran and the global economy. Based on international maritime traffic patterns, the country’s annual revenue from this waterway could reach billions of dollars. Read here

A Brief Synopsis of Our Global Predicament By Julian Rose War is big business and fear is the great repressor of human resilience and resistance. So long as these two states dominate world affairs the globalist elite that provokes and finances them, retains complete control. Read here