A New World Order Dominated by China, Russia and the Iranian Regime, with North Korea Heading Up the Rear [T]he weak and possibly compromised administration of U.S. President Joe Biden appears to have enabled and empowered the autocrats of China, Russia, Iran and North Korea, all of whom seem to …
Read More »Private Corporations Don’t Cause Price Inflation: Governments Do – OpEd
Interventionists always blame inflation on everything and anything except the only thing that makes aggregate prices rise: Issuing more units of currency than the real demand. Seller inflation is the same excuse and fallacy as cost-push inflation. A way to confuse citizens and assign causation to something that cannot make …
Read More »Issues And Recommendations For China’s Virtual Power Plants – Analysis
With China working on its dual-carbon goals and under the current high temperature, virtual power plants have been consistently dominating the country’s new energy sector since the beginning of this year. In fact, in 2022, the 14th Five-Year Plan for Modern Energy System proposed to promote flexible resources such as …
Read More »Paris Plays Spoiler On NATO’s Deepening Indo-Pacific Ambitions – Analysis
For two consecutive years, North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) summits welcomed the leaders of the Indo-Pacific 4 (IP4) countries—Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand—who are considered NATO’s “partners across the globe”. The Russia-Ukraine conflict has emboldened cooperation both within NATO and its 31 members, but also with the IP4 …
Read More »Disability Claims Are Increasing At A Record Pace Under Biden: Why? – OpEd
Despite the many economic challenges people are facing today, including stubbornly high inflation and 401ks that are still reeling from the worst stock market drop since 2008 , many contend that we’re witnessing the triumph of “Bidenomics.” The White House has been touting statistics showing 13.2 million jobs have been …
Read More »The Mighty Dollar Is Rhetorically Endangered But Safe, For Now – Analysis
Russia’s isolation, China’s assertiveness and a surge of interest in joining BRICS have pushed calls for a BRICS currency. Brazilian President Lula da Silva attacked the global economic order at last month’s international financing summit in Paris, criticising the dominance of the United States (US) dollar as the currency for …
Read More »Azerbaijan Blocks Armenian Convoy To Nagorno-Karabakh, Accuses Yerevan Of ‘Provocation’
Azerbaijan has refused to allow through the Lachin Corridor a convoy of trucks that Armenia said were delivering emergency food aid to the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The Lachin Corridor, the only road linking Armenia with Nagorno-Karabakh, has been blocked by Baku for more than seven months. The Armenian government …
Read More »Can Brain Science Characterize Artificial Intelligence?
There is a new article in Nature, ChatGPT broke the Turing test — the race is on for new ways to assess AI, where the author wrote, “The most famous test of machine intelligence has long been the Turing test, proposed by the British mathematician and computing luminary Alan Turing …
Read More »On Global Security Models and Their Functionality
The fundamental aim of the text below is to deal with the concept and models of global security as one of the crucial topics of global politics studies. The question of Security Studies as an academic discipline within the scope of Global Politics has been the subject of much debate …
Read More »US and Israel: Is the ‘Unbreakable Bond’ Finally Breaking?
Israeli President Isaac Herzog added nothing of great value in his speech at the United States Congress on July 19. His was the typical language. He spoke of a ‘sacred bond’, touted the shared experience between both nations as “unique in scope and quality”, and celebrated the great, common “values …
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