The Hong Kong Demonstrators Cannot Win Against Beijing Most of them know that China will never accept a political defeat
WASHINGTON – As I look at the developing story of the extremely large Hong Kong pro-democracy protests, my sense...
Author: Paolo von Schirach
US Unemployment Below 6% – Great News, But The American Economy Remains Weak The West in general is producing less, while spending too much on income support for the poor and on pensions. Meanwhile, fewer active workers produce less wealth
WASHINGTON – The US unemployment rate is now below 6%. This should be good news. It looks as if we...
At The Root Of the Hong Kong Protests: Economic Prosperity Is Founded On Political Freedom Hong Kong people want real democracy. China wants to control Hong Kong politics
WASHINGTON – Will the Hong Kong protesters demanding true democratic elections for the special status territory win in the end?...
First US Ebola Case Reveals Inability To Follow Basic Health Protocols Medical staff failed to notice that the patient with Ebola-like symptoms just came from Liberia, they sent him home
WASHINGTON – Thomas Eric Duncan flew into Dallas, Texas from Liberia, via Brussels and Washington. After a couple of days, he...
Bombing ISIL, One Vehicle At A Time – How Many Years To Achieve US Goals? Each air strike gets a small target. At this rate it will takes years to "degrade and destroy" this terrorist army
WASHINGTON – How is the air war against ISIL waged by the US and a coalition of European and...
Major FAA Facility Disabled By Just One Person – US Air Traffic In Chaos If one disgruntled former employee can destroy, all by himself, a major air traffic control facility, imagine the damage that may be caused by trained terrorists targeting critical US infrastructure
WASHINGTON – Just one (mentally imbalanced, it seems) disgruntled contractor, (his name is Brian Howard), upset because he had...
With Luck, In A Few Years Spain’s Unemployment Rate Will Go Below 20% In the "New Normal" of the economic decline affecting Southern Europe, this is good news
WASHINGTON – Talk about beating low expectations. Luis de Guindos, Spanish Minister of the Economy and Competitiveness, recently reported that...
Obama’s “Ferguson Remarks” In His UN Speech Provide Ammunition To America-Haters Bad idea to place in the same sentence slaughter in the Middle East and one killing in America
WASHINGTON – In an otherwise good UN speech (September 24, 2014) focused on the need to fight for international law...
Flex Fuel Engines Allow Trucks To Use Natural Gas – No Downside Engines that operate with both diesel and LNG/CNG allow an easier transition to natural gas as transportation fuel
WASHINGTON – While American energy firms have made major progress in exploiting new “unconventional” (mostly shale) oil, this way...
The Roots Of Islamic Fundamentalism Are In The Crisis Of the Arab World We can and should fight against ISIL in Syria and Iraq. But we cannot defeat radicalism through bombing campaigns
WASHINGTON – Denmark, a NATO country, just joined the fight against ISIL, (also ISIS or IS) in Iraq. We are...