The murky, patchwork trail of evidence of the origins of the Covid pandemic have so far exposed several certainties. The first is that it truly, as Donald Trump famously said, “came from China”. The wild viruses which became Covid in all its variants were retrieved from a remote mine in
As we’ve seen so far, the trail leading to the origins of the Covid pandemic winds back at least as far as 2002, and the SARS outbreak in China. That outbreak showed public health authorities that hitherto mild coronaviruses – mostly associated with the common cold – could and were mutating
As we’ve seen, the trail of the origin of the Covid pandemic – or as it should really be called, the Wuhan pandemic – has been traced, by bits and pieces of tantalising forensic work, to the Chinese city of Wuhan. More exactly, the arrows of the remaining evidence the Chinese
Slowly, but surely, investigators are worming into the cracks of the Great Firewall of China surrounding the origins of Covid. While Beijing has done its best to erase everything it can over the virus’ shadowy origins, whether a zoonosis that emerged in a “wet market” or an engineered virus that
Ron Paul ronpaulinstitute.org Most people agree that we are closer to nuclear war than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Some would even argue that we are closer now than we were in those fateful days, when Soviet missiles in Cuba almost triggered a nuclear war
Mike Holly Mike Holly received Master degrees in Business Administration and Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1980 and 1983, respectively. His health care article published on Mises Wire is an updated and condensed version of his MBA thesis. He did his internship at the Minnesota Department of
Julan Omir Aldover Julan Omir Aldover is a fourth-year Political Science student from Leyte Normal University, Philippines. fee.org When people hear the word profit, negative connotations often come to mind. For many, profits are the fruit of material greed, emblematic of inequality and the poor state of human
Robert Kogon Robert Kogon is a pen name for a widely published financial journalist, translator and researcher working in Europe. brownstone.org Citing microbiologist Kevin McKernan, the Epoch Times reports that green monkey DNA has been found in mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines. This has led DD Denslow to note
Ronald Stein Ronald Stein is an engineer, senior policy advisor on energy literacy for CFACT and co-author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Clean Energy Exploitations. cfact.org Just for electricity from EV batteries and the electricity occasionally generated from wind turbines and solar panels, the World Bank estimates
Harry Palmer I asked the driver of the empty bus parked at its terminus stop outside Manchester Airport what time he was scheduled to leave for the centre of Manchester. Before he could respond a woman behind me piped up and advised that the bus in the adjoining bay was
Connor Mortell Connor Mortell graduated from Texas Christian University with a BBA in finance, minoring in Chinese language and culture. After graduation, he worked as a legislative aide in the Florida House of Representatives from 2019–21. Currently he is an MBA student at Florida State University. Additionally, he is
Thomas Harrington Thomas Harrington, Senior Brownstone Scholar and 2023 Brownstone Fellow, is Professor Emeritus of Hispanic Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, CT, where he taught for 24 years. His research is on Iberian movements of national identity and contemporary Catalan culture. His essays are published at Words in The
Daniel Lacalle Daniel Lacalle, PhD, economist and fund manager, is the author of the bestselling books Freedom or Equality (2020), Escape from the Central Bank Trap (2017), The Energy World Is Flat? (2015) and Life in the Financial Markets (2014). mises.org Most politicians have used the ‘Ukraine invasion card’
At the risk of sounding like a cross between a Monty Python Yorkshireman and one of the dreary boomers still banging on about bloody Woodstock, kids today just don’t understand what it was like being an indie music fan in the ’80s. Back then, for one, ‘independent’ music really
It’s become a common argument for Islamophiles to boast about Islam’s supposedly unique and essential contributions to science and mathematics. While certainly not as ludicrous as the nonsense spouted about “Maori science” and “Aboriginal astronomy”, it’s still over-egged garbage. While occasional bright sparks within Islamic empires
