Photo: Felipe Parucker on PexelsJuan VilloroEspionage is inseparable from English literature. Daniel Defoe, Somerset Maugham, Graham Greene, and, of course, David Cornwell, better known as John Le Carré, were secret agents. The enigmas of loyalty and betrayal fascinate a...
Image: Petrovv on iStockAntonio NavalónIn the blink of an eye - which for some seemed too little for what was intended to be achieved, and for others, the wait seemed eternal - we have reached the last year of...
https://youtu.be/-nUs_ppctB4?si=TOvet65GJGWNWG77Jamie Dimon’s leadership of JPMorgan Chase has often brought a sense of stability to roiling financial markets. But when he looks at the conflicts in Gaza ( which he considers the highest and most important thing for the Western...
Photo: Ehud Neuhaus on UnsplashPercentage of World DebtGraph: on visualcapitalist.comGovernment Debt by Country in Advanced EconomiesGraph: on visualcapitalist.comGross public sector debt as a proportion of GDPGraph: on ourworldindata.orgExternal debt as a share of GNI, 2021Graph: on ourworldindata.orgDeveloping Countries Receiving the Most...
Photo: Aлесь Yсцінаў on PexelsRicardo Pascoe PierceAlthough the world's attention is focused on the conflict between Israel and the Hamas terrorist group in Gaza, the war that will have serious global consequences in the future is still being waged...
https://youtu.be/r4wLXNydzeY?si=ivj0kUuR7b3ISOyV&t=89John Mearsheimer is an international relations scholar at the University of Chicago. He is one of the world's most influential and controversial thinkers on the topics of war and power. Lex FridmanOUTLINE: 1:29 - Power 24:43 - Hitler 42:09...
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