Section: The Globalist (USA)
Annual Population Growth by Region
By The GlobalistHow much did different world regions gain in population over the past year?1. The world’s population grew by 82.6 million during the twelve months from July 2016 through the end of June 2017. 2. In other words, the world population currently increases by adding approximately the equivalent of the total population of Germany...
Ukraine: Something Is Happening Here…
By Kenneth CourtisAfter using the Russian invasion diligently for plenty of international support, Ukraine’s elites aren’t holding up their side of the bargain: They keep ruining their country.Ukraine’s President, 51-year old Petro Poroshenko – or Porky, as he is known to all Ukrainians – is at single digits in the polls. With...
Colonialism Applied to Europe: Review of Mazower’s “Hitler’s Empire”
By Branko MilanovicMark Mazower’s “Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe” is a magisterial book.I read it on vacation, and it is not a book I would suggest you take with you to the beach — unless you want to spoil your vacation. But once you have made such a choice, you cannot stop reading it, and the book will stay with you...
Where Muslim Countries Actually Lead the World
By The GlobalistNineteen countries worldwide devote a larger share of their economies to defense spending than the United States.1. Among the 171 countries surveyed by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), in 2015, 19 spent a higher share of their GDP on defense than the United States’s 3.3%. 2. All of these...
Ukraine’s Downward Spiral
By Kenneth CourtisA report from Kiev on corruption and hopelessness.Kiev had an eventful week. On Wednesday, a global cyber attack, launched from Ukraine, spread like wildfire globally. While all of this was happening the head of the Kiev regime’s counter-intelligence was blown to pieces as his car passed through an intersection in the...
Making Russia Great Again
By Jean-Francois BoittinWhy is Vladimir Putin so grateful to Donald Trump? Because Trump diminishes the United States’ standing in the world, making little Russia look larger.Leave it to American analysts to explore major news events in great depth – and miss the main story. Case in point: the testimony of former FBI director James Comey....
After Trump’s Exit from Paris Accord: Just Sanction the Bastards!
By Jean-Francois BoittinAfter Trump’s exiting from the Paris Accord, no more travel freedom for all those involved in the decision-making.The reality of Trump exiting “his” United States from the Paris Accord has sunk in. The key question: What’s the rest of the world to do about it? Unfair United States The answer: Trade sanctions,...
Trump and Russia: Just Follow the Money
By Frank VoglThe G7 summit communiqué surprisingly contains a direct and troublesome admonition for US President Donald Trump.Public prosecutors, FBI agents and investigative journalists know that crucial to their work is the dictum: “follow the money.” The money trail between the Trump and Kushner families increasingly appears to run from New...
Attacks on Academics: East Europe, Russia and Turkey
By Denise FeldnerLimiting academic freedom is a threat to democracy itself. EU leaders must unite and stand up to this troubling trend. The issue of academic freedom is making international headlines again. Unfortunately, the news is far from positive. Especially surprising is that it has reared its ugly head in several Western and...
Trump to Germany: Pay Up!
By Jean-Francois BoittinThe U.S. President reflects on why Germans must be made to pay for all the wrongs they inflicted on the United States.I extended a very warm welcome to Chancellor Merkel in the White House. And how does she respond? She invites Ivanka to Berlin, and manages to have my daughter booed at and hissed at during the meeting....
