Monday, March 14, 2022

Rules and Regulation Thwart Government Action

Government Is Flailing, in Part Because Liberals Hobbled It
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/13/opinion/berkeley-enrollment-climate-crisis.html 

at
Labels: , , ,

Sunday, March 13, 2022

Germany's Transformation


at
Labels: , , ,

Tampa Goes Green for St. Patrick's Day

Hillsborough River in Tampa Goes Green for St. Patrick's Day

at

Rising Tide of Attacks on Asian-Americans

Anti-Asian hate crimes top 10,000 in U.S. since start of pandemic
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Society/Anti-Asian-hate-crimes-top-10-000-in-U.S.-since-start-of-pandemic
Big cities see surge in incidents, from New York to San Francisco
 
Asian Americans Grapple with Tide of Attacks: ‘We Need Our Safety Back’
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/06/nyregion/asian-woman-attacks.html 
 
I’m Done Being Your Model Minority
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/10/opinion/asian-american-hate-crimes.html


at
Labels: ,

Cleveland – A Surprising Destination for ‘Dirty Money’

Who is Ihor Kolomoisky?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/who-is-ihor-kolomoisky-
“Which is why, as other major American cities like New York or Miami opened their doors to all kinds of oligarchic money out of places like Russia or Ukraine, Cleveland hardly got any attention as a destination for the kinds of illicit wealth spilling out of the former Soviet Union. Investigators searched out ill-gotten gains in Manhattan and Malibu. They ignored Cleveland, assuming globe-trotting oligarchs would never bother with a Midwestern city in clear decline.
How wrong they were.
As investigators and authorities now know, one of the most notorious oligarchs out of the former Soviet space oversaw a trans-national money laundering scheme of historic proportions – and used places like Cleveland, in addition to a number of other small towns across the American Midwest, to hide and launder hundreds of millions of dollars.”
 
Related:
https://vivekjayakumar.blogspot.com/2022/03/western-hypocrisy-how-west-benefited.html 

at
Labels: , , , ,

Ukraine Conflict: The Need for an Off-ramp

The dangerous new phase of Russia’s war in Ukraine, explained
https://www.vox.com/22970918/russia-war-in-ukraine-explained
 
It’s Time to Offer Russia an Offramp. China Can Help with That.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/13/opinion/china-russia-ukraine.html

It’s time to ask: what would a Ukraine-Russia peace deal look like?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/04/what-would-ukraine-russia-peace-deal-look-like 

Humanitarian Tragedy:  
A mother’s mission: Reach her family stranded in Ukraine’s ravaged Mariupol
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/03/12/ukraine-mariupol-russia-war/
 
The humanitarian crisis unfolding in Ukraine’s cities
https://www.vox.com/2022/3/12/22974090/ukraine-humanitarian-crisis-russia-siege-bombardment 

at
Labels:

Why the Global South Does Not Want to Pick Sides


In countries friendly toward Russia, people are troubled by the war and loss of life, but some say they think that Putin has a point.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/17/world/war-russia-china-putin-support.html
 
The US president is courting Venezuela and re-engaging with Saudi Arabia to overcome his oil sanctions against Moscow. 

Big Picture View: The Ukraine War and the Retro-Future
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/12/opinion/putin-ukraine-russia.html

For reasons to do with history and strategy, India will not abandon Russia.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/india-military-support-russia-ukraine-war/627035/
So, the Biden administration’s democracy-versus-autocracy framing has few takers in India. New Delhi’s Russia policy will change, gradually, but not because of American or Western pressure. Instead, it will change as a result of the growing strategic dissonance between the two, as Russia finds itself more and more beholden to China and uncomfortable questions are raised about India’s enormous dependence on Russian arms and how vulnerable it is to Russian behavior. 

at
Labels: , , , ,
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)