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Globalized Income

Guest post by Alan Cunningham – The Role of Globalization in Income Inequality and the Demand to Treat Income Inequality as a National Security Threat In the long run of justice, the main force for greater equality is the spread…

Equity is business

Business is a fair weather friend of social justice The Bolsheviks took power in Russia during the October Revolution of 1917. They were a Marxist movement led by Vladimir Lenin, an upper middle class man from western Russia. At the…

Two Pandemics: Economic Contagion in COVID-19

Guest post by Alan Cunningham Economic contagion can be very damaging to society. If left unchecked, an economic disaster in one industry or business sector can easily wipe out other important industries and sectors needed for a functioning society or…

If I could turn back time

Was the West lulled into a false sense of security by the expansion of NATO and the European Union in Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union? “People who are used to acting in one way will not change;…

Seeds of their own destruction

The 2008 Financial Collapse and Black Swan Events Guest post by Alan Cunningham The phrase, “complex systems can contain the seeds of their own destruction,” is a phrase that appears in Ted Lewis’ 2006 book Critical Infrastructure Protection in Homeland…