Many forget the damaging effects that come from a life of staggering poverty. The innability for a country to lift itself out of poverty through development, production and real participation in the World market has lasting generational effects. Researchers at Cornell University in the field of epigenetics found that both racism and poverty can have…
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Small Business In The Age of Change
May has been christened Small Business Month. You’ll likely be reminded of some if the benefits of small business and entrepreneurship in the coming weeks. This week especially, April 30-May 6, 2023 is Small Business Week. It’s a great time to remember the vital role that small businesses plays in daily life, economics and societal…
Communicating Systems of Order and Value
One of the greatest aspects of communications is the ability to make sense out of chaos. Communications goes beyond ably communicating a thought to ensuring that communication has impact. That communication enables populations to learn new common values and processes that move their nation forward and not backward. Communicating for wider adaption and adoption is…
Communicating The Market
Lately, there has been lots of talk about Banks. It seems to have quite a lot of people upset or at the very least nervous. And while Banking system may be teetering–it is not for the reasons we assume. In fact, much like the international chaos that is beating down developing economies and the interests…
Barbarians at the Gate: Course Correcting for the Future
Containment (n)/: The act, process, or means of keeping something within limits. Miriam-Webster The famous 1989 book detailing the hostile corporate takeover of RJR Nabisco, “Barbarian at the Gate,” by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, borrows its name from a classic old world euphemism. The story of corporate raiders was juxtaposed with the historic idea…
The Canary in the Cave, An International Mandate
Recently, the UN released a report by the outgoing UN Human Rights Chief suggesting there may be human rights abuses in the Chinese Xianjiang Autonomous region against ethnic Uyighurs. The report, like many other Uyighurs-focused nonprofit reports could only provide mostly anecdotal evidence. Serious allegations regarding these minorities from West/Central Asia, would seeem to require…
Building New Prosperity Havens for the World
The world may not be altogether sure why nations who have professed to be the world’s leaders of freedom and democracy are launching unprovoked aggressions violating treaties, pumping arms into impoverished nations to prolong proxy wars and doling out hundreds of sanctions worldwide. It seems nonsensical to the popular narrative of freedom and justice we…
Internal Strengthening Revisited: Economic Growth vs The Forever War
Economies worldwide are working to recover from the effects of Covid. Beyond removing barriers to individual freedoms many have seen the need to revitalize their flagging commercial trade. Even as schemes of finance and programs to create solid economic change are being formulated, it is aggravated by the continual capitulation of the Western world, through…
The Silent War Against Developing Nations
In 2022, when the US and it’s Western alies and Nato conspired to levy sanctions against Russia, a startling but important admission was indirectly made and recognized. The allied intended to use other means and tools as mechanisms of violence against not only the Russian state, but the Russian people. The result of those actions…
Resurrgence of the Global South: Resource Narratives & Parasite Nations
In June over 200 migrants, mostly from North Africa stormed the Italy/Morroco border. In an unusual and violent turn of events, border guards open fire on the group and killed over 20 souls. The truth is that for many developing countries, the real lost quest has been stability. Countless former colonies have sought to wrest…
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Inflation and Resistance in The Age of Change
It was an amazing scene, thousands had come out with lights held high with songs in support of the outgoing prime minister of Pakistan. A No-Confidence vote had forced the popular statesman and former cricket star out of office in April 2022. That nation has yet to see through even one administration to the end;…
Deterioration and Reorientation of Alliance in the Modern World
The greatest challenges in the coming weeks and years will be alliances of pertinent strength. It is perhaps the greatest underlying factor contributing to recent agitation. It was formerly believed by the framers of the old order that many developing economies would be forever developing and never able to penetrate the glass ceiling of national…
Lela Winston 