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OPINION | Covid-19: Militarism and big money trampling humanity Search You Are Here:Home → 2021 → April → 9 → OPINION | Covid-19: Militarism and big money trampling humanity OPINION | Covid-19: Militarism and big money trampling humanity By ROMEO F. QUIJANO University of the Philippines Manila The Covid-19 pandemic is probably the most devastating disaster that has descended on humanity. Even the crude statistics of doubtful accuracy is petrifying: 133,181,257 cases and 2,889,631 deaths worldwide as of April 7, 2021. (1) and still counting after one year of seemingly ...

  Newport's continuing drawing power is fueled by our fascination with money and the people who make it. It is certainly no different today, as we Americans are ever more enthralled by the idea of wealth and the power it represents. The very rich have the stature of mythological beings. And as Newport well demonstrates, super-wealth often goes hand in hand with an edifice complex. From the pharaohs, monarchs, and the Robber Barons, to Donald Trump, the accumulation of money practically predicates grand building projects. This encompasses the bling of Trump Tower or the gilt of the Gold room ...

Thinking It Through: Advocates of sedition laws make strange bedfellows By Richard Reeb For the Victorville Daily Press In the early 1960s, there was considerable campus debate about the freedoms of speech and press. This arose from the fact that federal and state governments in those days were concerned about Communist Party influence. But hanging like a pall over this effort was a parallel revulsion against the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin Republican who had been censured by his Senate colleagues for abusing his authority as chairman of the Government Operations Committee in his...

Hot properties like Amy Sherald’s The Bathers (2015) are favourites for new billionaire buyers © Amy Sherald This month, Sotheby’s will be offering what it describes as the “ultimate Renaissance portrait” in its annual sale of high-value Old Masters in New York. It hopes this $80m-plus work will reinvigorate top-end demand in a market that since March has been battered by the fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. According to Bloomberg News, Sandro Botticelli’s Young Man Holding a Roundel is owned by a tax-minimising foundation set up by the billionaire New York...

Love them or hate them, the railroads created a template that other nascent industries followed. Telegraph and telephone, automobile and airplane, radio and television, and now the internet—each of these technologies, in its own way, made us ever more tightly connected. Industries that sprang up around these new technological products generated enormous wealth and great power for some. And all of them eventually felt the hand of government regulation. But first the railroad had to come through. Railroads dominated the economy in the 19th century as no industry would again; they practically ...