An excellent example, of how balance-of-powers within a government produces a corrupt government, was provided by the report in Bloomberg News on 17 June 2020, “Trillions in Stimulus Go Unchecked With Watchdogs Kept Toothless”. The reporter, Laura Davison, described the U.S. system, in which a government’s outcome regarding a particular […]
Day: April 12, 2024
Haiti: A Victim Of Western (Neo)colonialism
While the international community’s attention is focused on the conflict in Ukraine, an even more devastating crisis is occurring in the Western Hemisphere, namely in Haiti. This small Caribbean nation shares the island of Hispaniola with the Spanish-speaking Dominican Republic. And despite the latter being a dream vacation destination for […]
Pentagon’s New Strategies: Space and Cyberspace
In less than a week apart, the U.S. Department of Defense released the Defense Industrial Base Cybersecurity Strategy and the Commercial Space Integration Strategy that focus on close cooperation with the private business sector to cater to the Pentagon’s needs. Although the documents are not key ones in the areas […]
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