Vasilii Sapozhnikov spent over twenty years in finance and is the author of As It Were a New Economy, a study of the

Support the Troops: Bring Them Home!

Last week we heard that US sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln and other ships in the Middle East were being fed food that, from photos that surfaced in the media, looked worse than what you would feed a dog. Parents and spouses of service members risked disciplinary action against their loved ones to highlight to the US Navy Secretary and to the media the revolting conditions aboard the carrier, which has been at sea with no port of call for a record period of time.

Jamaica’s Reparations Campaign is a Waste of a Good Government

In September, a Jamaican delegation will travel to Britain to place a petition in the hands of King Charles III. The request is quite specific: that the King, in his capacity as Jamaica’s head of state, refer three questions to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on whether the transatlantic slave trade was unlawful, whether it amounted to a crime against humanity, and whether Britain owes a remedy for it.