As outlined in Carden’s brief letter there is much to like in the democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg’s proposed foreign policy: end endless wars, climate change, a tougher stance on Israel but […]
Sino-Russian Symbiosis Disregarded
The increasing Sino-Russian Symbiosis one of the most significant current geopolitical developments is seemingly ignored by both the US mass media and the US State Department whose pronouncements focus separately on Russophobia […]
Machinocene, the Epoch of Artificial Inteligence – the US and China

Recently it was proposed that the Holocene geological epoch in which we have been living for the last 11,000 years be dubbed the Anthropocene epoch, one dominated by humans. But a more […]
From the Greek Gods to Homo Deus
Having recently read Yani Varoufakis’s book, The weak suffer what the must, a recounting of his five months as finance minister of Greece during the Greek financial crisis, I found that the origin […]
AI and the End of the Human Era?
There are many people issuing dire warnings about out of control AI, Artificial Intelligence, but there are others, such as Ray Kurzweil and, especially, Ben Goetzel of MIRI, Larry Page and Eric […]
Human Evolution, next step, ASI
As the introduction to this blog states, it will deal with a number of issues, all of which impact on global geopolitics and until now one subject has been sorely neglected, that […]
Global Implications of Artificial Intelligence
An article titled The Robots are Coming for your Job was published in the University of Virginia magazine. The author, Darden School of Business Professor Dr. Hess, postulates that close to two-thirds […]