The House of Lords has opened an inquiry into the agreement the UK government has signed with Ukraine. To this end, the House of Lords’ International Agreements Committee is currently calling for evidence seeking answers to various questions including the benefits and risks of the agreement to the UK. The call for evidence closes on 10 March 2025.
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After the last election, Democratic Party functionaries were puzzled that voters– usually attuned closely to the economy– failed to show proper appreciation for the Biden economic miracle. They cited the billions in federal money flowing toward economic growth; they repeated aggregate growth figures more robust than other advanced economies; they showed that consumer spending continued to show surprising vigor; they noted that aggregate incomes grew faster than inflation; and they reminded us of the often-mentioned markers of rising stock market and housing values.
Nastává nová a velmi slibná doba, kdy staré prochází milosrdnou demontáží a na jeho místo nastupuje něco zcela nového.
Trumpova administrativa na popud Odboru pro efektivitu státní správy (DOGE) a v režii Úřadu pro personální řízení (OPM) rozeslala všem federálním zaměstnancům další e-mail s běžnou žádostí o popis pěti pracovních činností odvedených za poslední týden.
Je to snadný úkol. Zabere pět minut. Ve službách je to zcela normální, dokonce rutinní. Inventarizace zaměstnanců je v soukromém sektoru standardem pro každé nové vedení.
The author’s introductory quote was first formulated in 2001 in the context of the Summit of the Americas in Quebec City which was held a few months before 9/11.
“Everything the Ford Foundation did could be regarded as “making the World safe for capitalism”, reducing social tensions by helping to comfort the afflicted, provide safety valves for the angry, and improve the functioning of government.”
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We must understand the history of the U.S.-sponsored February 2014 Coup d’Etat which paved the wave for the adoption of IMF-World Bank shock treatment, namely the imposition of devastating macro-economic reforms coupled with conditionalities. This process –imposed by the Washington Consensus– was applied in developing countries since the 1980s, and in Eastern Europe and in the countries of the Soviet Union starting in the early 1990s.
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In the two decades that followed the Cold War’s end, globalism gained ground over nationalism. Simultaneously, the rise of increasingly complex systems and networks—institutional, financial, and technological—overshadowed the role of the individual in politics. But in the early 2010s, a profound shift began. By learning to harness the tools of this century, a cadre of charismatic figures revived the archetypes of the previous one: the strong leader, the great nation, the proud civilization.
In early December 2023, the number of vaccine doses worldwide recorded by the WHO was of the order of 14 billion: an average of 1.75 vaccine doses per person for a World population of 8 billion people. (13,595,583,1250 recorded by the WHO on November 23, 2023)
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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Is Trump Any Better Than Biden?
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In 1853, during the Crimean War between Russia and the Ottoman Empire, the United Kingdom and France came to the Sultan’s aid. Twenty years later, in 1877, Tsar Alexander II, protector of the oppressed Serbian and Bulgarian Christians, again went to war against the Ottomans, who this time were forced to accept the creation of the autonomous principalities of Bulgaria, Serbia and Romania, by the Treaty of San Stefano. The British were unhappy with this treaty, and together with Austria-Hungary, they convened the Berlin Conference, which annulled the Treaty of San Stefano. The Russian conquests were returned to the Ottoman Empire, as well as much of Armenia and Bulgaria, and the Balkans were fragmented into heterogeneous and conflicting states—a “balkanization” that would lead directly to the First World War.
January 12 marked 60 years since the death of Lorraine Hansberry at the age of thirty-four. Hansberry was a brilliant intellectual and cultural worker who would earn the begrudging respect of the highest cultural gatekeepers, despite her activism in Communist and anti-racist circles. At a time in the early post-war period when lynching was commonplace and anti-Communism was in full crescendo, it was rare for anyone to risk membership or association, especially for a young African American from a prominent family on Chicago’s South Side. Most of her contemporaries were running away from Communism as fast as their feet would take them.
