Every once in a while, Donald Trump tells the truth –– usually by accident. When he lambasted “the lamestream media” he had a point: the U.S. “legacy media” can be truly lame in what they stream to the public. Most of the major U.S. media—including news,...
Warren Buffet, “The Oracle of Omaha,” finally retired as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway. He was an avowed capitalist and someone who invested more wisely and more profitably than anyone else in the last 50 years. In 1964, if you had invested $100.00 with him...
What do U.S. companies owe to the U.S., its people and the nation that gave them birth? It’s a question that has been hanging around since the 1980s, in the go-go years of globalization, when U.S. and E.U. companies vocally claimed to be “de-nationalizing” their...
Recent rioting in Great Britain has been fueled by right wing extremists using social media. Right now, Elon musk’s social media site, X (formerly known as Twitter) has been a primary source of hate speech. Hate speech is a ill-defined category U.S. law, but...
The “Bottification” of Airbnb Under the brutal heat dome that hovered over the eastern seaboard in mid-June of 2024, my family and I were in Washington D.C. to do the typical tourist things: the Air and Space museum, Arlington Cemetery, the Holocaust Museum, the...
