Pandemic Creates New Billionaires as Global Inequality Rises 

Lon­don —  The world’s bil­lion­aires have increased their wealth by tril­lions of dol­lars since the begin­ning of the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic, while the world’s poor­est peo­ple are strug­gling with soar­ing prices and ris­ing debt, accord­ing to an analy­sis by char­i­ta­ble orga­ni­za­tion, Oxfam. As the glob­al busi­ness elite gath­er in the Swiss moun­tain resort of Davos for the…

China Is Doing Biden’s Work for Him

If Pres­i­dent Joe Biden’s trip to Asia—marked as it was by his com­ments on the defense of Tai­wan, announce­ments on a pro­posed new region­al trade pact, and meet­ings with lead­ers who exhib­it sim­i­lar lev­els of con­cern about a ris­ing China—has shown the per­sis­tence of Amer­i­can glob­al pow­er, it has also revealed some­thing of equal importance:…

Democracy Is Not a Commodity

As the West imposed wide-rang­ing sanc­tions on Rus­sia in response to Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, reports emerged that the Unit­ed States might con­cur­rent­ly lift sanc­tions on the regime of anoth­er bru­tal dic­ta­tor: Venezue­lan Pres­i­dent Nicolás Maduro. A sur­prise vis­it by a U.S. del­e­ga­tion to Cara­cas, Venezuela’s cap­i­tal, in March prompt­ed imme­di­ate speculation…

US intelligence told to keep quiet over role in Ukraine military triumphs

US intel­li­gence told to keep qui­et over role in Ukraine mil­i­tary tri­umphs CIA vet­er­ans advise suc­ces­sors against ‘unwise’ intel­li­gence boasts that could trig­ger esca­la­tion from Rus­sia Rus­sia-Ukraine war: lat­est updates For­mer US intel­li­gence offi­cers are advis­ing their suc­ces­sors cur­rent­ly in office to shut up and stop boast­ing about their role in Ukraine’s mil­i­tary suc­cess­es. Two…

‘Thanks, Putin’: Finnish and Swedish Lawmakers Aim for NATO Membership

Finnish and Swedish oppo­si­tion lead­ers trav­eled to Wash­ing­ton this week to meet with U.S. offi­cials as their coun­tries kick-start debates on join­ing NATO in the wake of Russia’s inva­sion of Ukraine. Pet­teri Orpo, the chair of Finland’s cen­ter-right Nation­al Coali­tion Par­ty, and Ulf Kris­ters­son, the leader of the oppo­si­tion in Sweden’s par­lia­ment and head of…