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What Happened to China’s Richest Man? What Winston Churchill once said about Russia also applies to China: The country is “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Two important cases illustrate the black-box opaqueness of the People’s Republic of China, reminding us just how little we know about what’s happening in the country […]
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Pinkerton: Georgia and the Arts of War and Politics
January 3rd, 2021 
Awake Goy The Power Game Is a Numbers Game The final battle of the 2020 elections—the two senatorial runoff elections in Georgia—comes to a close on January 5. And yet as we shall see, the Democrats’ patient preparations for the battle have been going on for years. An indication of the work that’s been done came on […]
Pinkerton: The Covid Class War — the Liberated vs. the Locked Down
December 20th, 2020 Awake Goy The Double Standard One rule for thee, and one rule for me. That sort of hypocrisy has been baked into human power relations, since, well, forever. As the Greek historian Thucydides wrote 2,500 years ago, “The strong do what they will, and the weak suffer what they must.” Today, in the midst of the Covid-19 […]
Pinkerton: Barack Obama Is a Machiavellian Fox in ‘A Promised Land’
November 29th, 2020 Awake Goy Friends in High Finance Barack Obama’s new memoir, A Promised Land, bills itself as “a riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy.” And of course, it’s an instant mega best-seller, eagerly bought by blue-dot believers everywhere, fully justifying the 2017 book-deal by […]
Pinkerton: October Surprises in U.S. History
October 10th, 2020 Awake Goy Another October Surprise So now we have our “October Surprise”—at least one of them. The news that President Trump has tested positive for Covid-19, has been hospitalized, and released, throws the remaining weeks of the presidential campaign into an even more uncertain kind of uncertainty. In the next few days, and for the rest of the campaign season, […]
Pinkerton: The Crime Election — Trump vs. Biden
September 6th, 2020 Awake Goy The Issue is Law and Order Six months or a year ago, an observer might have thought that this presidential campaign would be waged over impeachment, or Iran, or the coronavirus, or maybe China. Instead, we’re having an election over rioting, violence—and law and order. On August 25, CNN’s Don Lemon said of the […]
