Francis Menton

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  • Nov 20, 2024
    If you believe the messaging of the Trump transition, big cuts in U.S. government spending are coming. Announced cabinet appointments include several who are opponents of the mission...
  • Nov 16, 2024
    The overwhelming focus of the environmental movement over the past three decades and more has been the push to eliminate the use of hydrocarbon fuels and transform the world’s...
  • Oct 12, 2024
    Have you seen any economic news coming out of Cuba recently? With barely a couple of exceptions, if you read the U.S. Corporate Media, likely you have not.
  • Sep 20, 2024
    China has proudly proclaimed itself to be a Communist country ever since Mao Zedong came to power in the late 1940s. I understand the term “Communism” in the context of a...
  • Sep 17, 2024
    With a radical far-leftist in serious contention for the presidency in our upcoming election, it is worthwhile to check in on the record of leftism and socialism in other...
  • Aug 8, 2024
    As the saying goes, Socialists: You can vote them in, but you have to shoot them out. We’re watching an extreme example of that saying play out right now in Venezuela.  
  • Jun 5, 2024
    The Global Warming Policy Foundation 2024 American speaking tour is now set for next week. Dr. Benny Peiser, Director of the GWPF, and I will be speaking at three events on June 11,...
  • Apr 10, 2024
    When I first came upon it, I called it the “stupidest litigation in the country.” In 2015 a group of adolescents, led on a leash by some activist environmental lawyers,...
  • Jan 20, 2024
    In a world of now close to 200 countries, every day provides an updated report card as to what works and what doesn’t in economic policy. As reported by the IMF, World Bank,...