Funding the Future

Trump wants to sanction those working for the International Criminal Court who are seeking to uphold international law. He’s reached the point where he’s saying he has the right to declare what is right to be wrong.

Curing diseases is not a very profitable activity for drug companies. Managing sick people is. So, do drug companies really want to cure diseases, or do they want us to all be sick for as long as possible?

Trump is setting out to create chaos. That he’s doing so is not an accident. It’s deliberate. Can we react in time to save anything of value in the world that we’ve known?

Top-down thinking tells us what we can’t do because it assumes things aren’t possible, which is exactly what our politicians keep saying. Is it time to liberate ourselves with some bottom-up thinking?

Trump is bringing financial markets down whilst increasing tensions inside and outside the USA. How long is it before he delivers a meltdown?

Young people are giving up on democracy because our politicians are giving up on them. But it’s not democracy that’s at fault – it is our politicians who are. We need a politics that delivers for young people, or the future is very bleak.

The world’s developing countries mainly owe their debts in dollars. Trump is, however, making it harder for them to earn dollars, and is trying to inflate the dollar’s value. The result will be massive poverty.

Anyone can become an MP. No training is required, and them they set the rules for everyone else. That’s absurd. All prospective parliamentarians and councillors should have to take an exam to prove their competence.

Fire and flooding are making houses uninsurable. Will this crash the housing market? There are strong signs it will, unless the government takes action.

The DeepSeek AI model challenges US capitalism at its very core – suggesting its whole model of creating value for a few by extracting maximum revenues from people as a result of the abuse of monopoly power might have to end.