Bank deregulation in the 1990s, the pressure to increase home ownership thereby encouraging lax mortgage standards, very low interest rates which created a liquidity bubble, and the system of Wall Street bonus payments that encouraged short term risk taking all served...

Osaka, Japan, Chinese Premier and US president 2019, CNBC

The title refers to the impossible plot by novelist Philip Roth that Charles Lindbergh, an airplane pilot with opinions, won the 1940 US presidential election and kept the US out of WW2. Lindbergh, a pocket fasc...

Gulliver conversing with two Houhynhms, Gulliver's Travels, Wikipedia

Beckett's play Waiting for Godot with its endlessly circular, inconsequential, trivial discussions between two tramps Estragon and Vladimir who wait for Godot to arrive, but who never does is a play a...

United States foreign policy towards Syria, 2017 Morguefile.com

Donny from Queens, we have never full satisfied ourselves whether there is a tone and hum of real Humour, which we reckon among the very highest qualities of Genius, or some remote echo of mere Inanity and...

Russia's intelligence network was involved in the US presidential election in 2016. The Russian government caused maximum damage to Hillary Clinton's reputation, due to her campaign's poor email security, and by using WikiLeaks as the medium through which stolen docume...

SARS, MERS, Marburg and Ebola virus and a recent Hanta virus outbreak in China, remind us that the world can carry on without humans.

The vaccine for Covid-19, prepared and ready for testing in 42 days, will be injected into human volunteers in Seattle, USA essentially...

This New Corona Virus originated in Wuhan city c. 31 December 2019. The virus was isolated, identified as SARS-Cov-2 and is related to SARS of 2002 but less contagious and notified worldwide unlike the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) outbreak in 2002. The numb...

Palestine was perceived as part of Bilad al Sham (Greater Syria), today's Syria, Lebanon and the Levant. In November 1917 Lord Balfour wrote to Lord Rothschild, representing the World Zionist Organisation favouring Palestine as a national home for the Jewish people cle...

Putin wins because the USA has lost its prestige. Putin and Erdogan are replacing the US in the Middle East. The US president is more interesting than a serious liberal yet his refusal to pay for the transition from President Obama's term ensures there is no funding of...

Carl Goerdeler, a former Mayor of Leipzig, was due to replace Hitler as German Chancellor assuming the success of the July 20, 1944 coup. Goerdeler was appalled the nation of Beethoven, Schiller, Goethe and Schubert was given over to the most primitive, destructive and...