How the Chinese Principles of the Tao Explain the Economy
Rethinking economics through Taoism: Money is the Tao, capital & labor are Yin/Yang, and the Invisible Hand is Wu-Wei (non-interference)
Read more...Rethinking economics through Taoism: Money is the Tao, capital & labor are Yin/Yang, and the Invisible Hand is Wu-Wei (non-interference)
Read more...Reward and retribution is the U.S. foreign policy in Latin America. Dollars for allies (Argentina) and bombs for challengers (Venezuela)
Read more...Nothing exists in a vacuum. This is especially true when trying to understand the Middle East. There is no event that happens in this region that isn’t related to its overall direction. The recent clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan should be read in that light. When asked to explain what is happening between these two […]
Read more...The euro’s problem is that the European Union is not a state — and war is the fastest way to become one.
Read more...Control over Venezuela and Iran’s oil can revive the petrodollar. The U.S. pushes regime change to dictate oil currency and maintain hegemony.
Read more...Politics begins by naming an enemy; the state depends on it. Calling Antifa “terrorist” could be the tool to redefine both politics and power
Read more...It’s a cruel irony that Qatar has been bombed twice in the last three months by two sworn enemies, first by Iran and then by Israel. Neither has received kinetic retaliation from the very power supposedly guaranteeing Qatar’s security: the U.S. This signals a shift in the world order that Israel has already understood, but […]
Read more...The welfare state is the underlying social contract that has kept Western European nation-states together since World War II. If it ends, as some politicians warn, what would replace it?
Read more...A new power system has emerged with the alliance among Washington, Tel Aviv, and Silicon Valley: the military-digital complex, and Gaza is its testing ground.
Read more...Haiti’s “manufactured chaos” is the result of foreign intervention in connivance with the country’s oligarchic elites. Erik Prince’s mercenaries will not fix it; they will only make it worse.
Read more...At the meeting between Putin and Trump, the question of whether a leader is a product of history or its maker reveals much about them, and us.
Read more...The rules-based order is giving way to one of ‘sphere of influence,’ and in Latin America the U.S. is showing what could look like one
Read more...The Israeli genocide in Gaza violates the Silver Rule, the foundation of nearly all ethical frameworks
Read more...Syria’s push for a nation-state raises questions: is this model fit for a region where it has brought more conflict than stability?
Read more...In the West, politics and finance run separately; in the East, they merge. That’s why politics there matters more and political fictions are absent.
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