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“We don’t have one.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Familiar with Luigi Mangione, defendant in the legal case US Department of Justice v. Luigi Mangiione? OK, imagine you’re in law school, and you’ve spent yesterday researching recent cases in industrial law, too,…

A long-running alleged plot, if exposed in South Korea, could discredit the country’s often-praised history of republican democracy. A martial-law order of December 3, 2024, was only part of why prosecutors now charge president Yoon…

Some guns seized in Venezuela in September 2024 were made solely for US Navy SEAL commandos.[1] The rifles came from Delray Beach, Florida. Allegedly they were intended for a coup against Nicolas Maduro, with shipment…

Puzzled by current furor over Venezuela 2024 elections? Look to Bolivia 2019. In each of these countries in those years, a leftist won an election. and international media reports followed that election fraud had occurred.…

“Armed gangs are destabilizing Haiti.” Yes, but for the most part these “gangs” are simply private armies – militias – working for Haitian oligarchs.[1] Illustrating this, in May 2005 multi-millionaire Haitian businessman Reginald Boulos demanded…

“Lawfare,” the misuse of legal powers against perceived enemies, has increased in recent years. Both legislatures and judiciaries have been misusing their legal power against perceived enemies, frequently presidents.[1] When one looks closely at lawfare…

In early 2014, rising young Brazilian attorney Sergio Moro invented Operation Car Wash.[1] This was an investigation alleging that many millions of dollars had bribed public officials across Latin America, starting, investigators said, with executives…

The Republic of South Korea in 1980 was a “banana republic” in the sense that self-government did not really obtain, but Koreans understood this ideal, wanted it, and moved to get it. Dismayingly, they found…

In 1967 against a Vietnam war that lacked for wide patriotic support, a group of high-school students including me carried anti-war placards in front of the then-Marin County Courthouse onFourth Street in San Rafael, California.…

The US is practically certain to remain involved in Ukraine affairs as long as it can or permanently. American licenses to extract natural gas are only one reason. In 2016, Ukraine nationalized PrivatBank after its…

A remarkable $1 trillion-plus is set to be awarded to Ukraine for “reconstruction” post-war.[1] After WWII under the Marshall Plan some $130 billion in today’s dollars was awarded to European nations for “rebuilding.”[2] In addition…

A push is on for electric cars, which are copper-intensive. As such, copper, largely from Chile, is the next big thing. Will this boom benefit the Chilean population? The public in Chile currently owns the…

Days after sabotage of Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany, Russian troops entered Ukraine, target of gas-development projects contracted in 2013 to US oil companies; in 2014 the US began arming militias against…

Oil-rich Kazakhstan was struck by rioters whom the government of Kassym-Jomart Tokaeyev called insurrectionists sponsored by “a foreign government” that to this day it has not named; Western media said rural protests over consumer prices…

When big rigs blockaded Ottawa in February 2022, Americans as much as Canadians were responsible. Two American models for political action, The TEA Party and the 2021 Capitol Riot, were replicated, with the help of…

In the Capitol Riot the extremist wing of a current American-populist movement became highly visible, a target of more than 1,000 arrests few of which were for sedition but nevertheless in the eyes of progressive…

In Michigan in 2020, plotters planned to kidnap Governor Gretchen Whitmer. In 2020 and 2021 in Michigan, Oregon, and other states armed militants invaded or planned to destroy state capitols or other government buildings.

Amid anti-China climate in the US around the Huawei chip giant, a Covid-19 virus either having or not having some kind of connection to a laboratory in Wuhan appeared; the second US Covid death, on…