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Tag: Aid

  • It’s About Children and Education: Melania Trump at the UN Security Council

    Former British Conservative politician and current pundit Rory Stewart thought it might have been a case of artificial intelligence.  Many would have agreed.  The US First Lady, Melania Trump, had chanced upon a situation where she was chairing the UN Security Council.  It was the turn of the United States to assume the Presidency of the […]

  • Far from Benign: The US Aid Industrial Complex

    The US aid program began in earnest in the early stages of the Cold War, with an intention to beat off the contenders from the Soviet bloc in the postcolonial world. President Harry S. Truman proposed, in his 1949 inaugural address, “a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial […]

  • The Global Deep State

    The madmen are in power. — Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle The debate over U.S. foreign aid is a distraction. That’s not to say that the amount of taxpayer money flowing to foreign countries in the form of military and economic assistance is insignificant. Even at less than 1% of the […]

  • Ever Again

    An unusual and pleasant experience occurred when I attended the webinar book launch of Never Again: Germans and Genocide after the Holocaust, authored by Dr. Andrew Port, Professor of History at Wayne State University. Skeptical of Germany’s anxiety in remaining identified with the genocidal Nazi past and its servile attempts to gain Jewish approval by […]

  • Letter to Tim Cook, Other Ultra-rich CEOs and Hedge Fund Titans

    The victims of the devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Syria need your help now. The surviving families and children and those rescued alive from the rubble are in serious danger in affected wintertime impoverished regions. Refugees in other places fleeing their war-torn homelands are also suffering. International aid agencies are grossly insufficient for these […]

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