Mike Norman Economics

French “Supercop” accuses the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and their US instructors. Earlier this year, noted French counter-terrorism and personal security expert Captain Paul Barril was invited to visit the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). The intention of the planned visit was to consult with the DPR’s Prime-Minister, Alexander Zakharchenko, on issues of protection and personal security. However, before the two men could meet, Mr Zakharchenko...

Something a little different for MNE's, but it has a good message about the quality of life.Hamish Miller had started a furniture businesses as he was good with his hands and at design, but the business grew until he had about 500 staff and then he spent all his time worrying, trying to find enough work for his staff. He thought nothing of it, just accepting this is how life is, until he saw a beautiful sunset one day where he felt he had no time to look at it, but then he thought, hang on a...

Mike Tyson became a vegan when his health problems were really bad. He had a congested heart, high blood pressure,  arthritis, and his brain was messed up because of too many drugs, but it all got cured when he went on a vegan diet. But recently he said he's not a vegan anymore.  He says he's not wealthy now, but he has wealth in other ways, like the love of his family and his love for life. He seems like a nice guy.  [embedded content]

US President Donald Trump has managed to attract support for his "America First" isolationism not by dint of his own arguments, but because the US foreign-policy establishment abandoned its own values. After decades of thoughtless military interventionism, it is little wonder that Americans would seek an alternative.… A grownup speaks on semi-official channel. The voices of the grownups have been suppressed in the corporate media and only found expression in alternative media.One can be for...

Watch this. This is what it takes to really be a winner.[embedded content]

Craig Murray Blog“Boshirov” is probably not “Chepiga”. But he is also not “Boshirov”. Craig Murray, formerly British ambassador to Uzbekistan and Rector of the University of Dundee Irrussianality Peddling certainty Paul Robinson | Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa The National Interest Trump Should Let South and North Korea Build Peace Daniel R. DePetris SalonPoll: Majority of Republicans want Brett Kavanaugh confirmed even if...

This article is a small interlude in my my discussion of post-Keynesian inflation theories. The first article was unfortunately theoretically negative - it discussed the reasoning behind the post-Keynesian rejection of mainstream inflation theories.  Bond Economics Inflation And Income Shares Brian Romanchuk

Evolution, the theory that has already proven itself for understanding the rest of life, is equally relevant for understanding the human condition. With understanding comes improvement. Thus, evolutionary theory can be used to improve the quality of human life in a practical sense.... HuffPostProof That Policies Informed by Evolution Can Succeed Where Other Perspectives Have Failed David Sloan Wilson | SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University and...

Teddy Atlas provides some terrific insight on what it takes to be a winner.

The winners get to write history, and the South Eastern Asian countries that the West bombed back to year zero were made into vassal states singing and praising the West for saving them from the "communists". But I wonder how much we in the West have been lied to as well? KV I'm sitting at the splendid building of the Singapore National Library, in a semi-dark room, microfilm inserted into a high-tech machine. I’m watching and then filming and photographing several old Malaysian...