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U.S. NEEDS TO CLOSE THE MARITIME GAP WITH CHINA
PHILLY SHIPYARD IN THIS REPORT: CONGRESSIONAL GUIDANCE FOR A NATIONAL MARITIME STRATEGY COSCO AND ZPMC EXPANSIONS CHINA DEMONSTRATES WHY A U.S. MARITIME BUILD-UP MATTERS CONCLUSION: THE NEED TO REBUILD U.S. SHIPBUILDING AND SHIPPING BY STAS MARGARONIS, RBTUS In a new...
U.S. NEEDS TO CLOSE THE MARITIME GAP WITH CHINA
PHILLY SHIPYARD IN THIS REPORT: CONGRESSIONAL GUIDANCE FOR A NATIONAL MARITIME STRATEGY COSCO AND ZPMC EXPANSIONS CHINA DEMONSTRATES WHY A U.S. MARITIME BUILD-UP MATTERS CONCLUSION: THE NEED TO REBUILD U.S. SHIPBUILDING AND SHIPPING BY STAS MARGARONIS, RBTUS In a new report, Republican and Democratic Congressional representatives warned that the United States is way behind China in terms of...
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Arnhem: The Battle For The Bridges,1944 by Antony Beevor
REVIEW BY STAS MARGARONIS The failure of the Allied Market Garden invasion of the German-occupied Netherlands in September,1944 undermined what had been a successful Allied advance after the Normandy landings in June, 1944. The defeat was often advertised by its British architects as 90% successful or a “Bridge Too Far” (the title of the Cornelius Ryan history and the subsequent movie). In...
Does Amazon Dominate the U.S. Supply Chain? Book Review: “The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy” (London: Pluto Press) Editors: Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese (Release in September)
By Stas Margaronis Jake Wilson, a co-editor (with Ellen Reese) of The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy, says that Amazon is increasingly dominating the U.S. supply chain using its vast database and mass cloud computational capability to consolidate data. The result, he says, is that Amazon expands its surveillance and control of truckers, air freight pilots, warehouse workers,...
UNITE Bill Can Support a Renaissance in Human Resources in America
By Stas Margaronis At a time of high unemployment, proposed legislation in Congress, the UNITE bill, would fund 1.5 million new national service jobs over three years through entities such as AmeriCorps and create new jobs tracing Covid cases and dispatching teachers to U.S. schools. At a time of recession and shut-downs at colleges, UNITE can create new work and experience for college students...
INSPIRED TO SERVE: The Final Report of the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service Executive Summary Excerpts (March 2020)
“We believe that the current moment requires a collective effort to build upon America’s spirit of service to cultivate a widespread culture of service—a culture in which individuals of all backgrounds both expect and aspire to serve their Nation or community and have meaningful opportunities to serve throughout their lifetime. Taken together, our recommendations offer a revolutionary and...
COVID-19: ALLIANZ MARITIME RISK ANALYSIS HIGHLIGHTS OPERATIONAL RISKS
BY STAS MARGARONIS Covid-19 prompted Allianz, a global risk consulting group, to produce a report highlighting problems facing ocean-going vessels and crews that can adversely impact the reliable delivery of imports and exports around the world. In an interview, Captain Andrew Kinsey, an Allianz risk consultant and a former Master with Maersk Line Limited says the report, Safety of...
AmeriCorps: Senate’s Pandemic Response Bill Could Fund 750,000 National Service Workers & Fight Second Covid-19
By Stas Margaronis A Senate Bill proposes funding 750,000 new jobs that could also support the track and trace of Covid-19 patients reducing thousands of additional infections and deaths from an expected second wave of Covid-19 projected for the fall. In April, a group of U.S. Senators proposed: “The Pandemic Response and Opportunity Through National Service Act” which would fund...
ASCE: STILL NO REVENUE SOURCE FOR PROPOSED 2020 HIGHWAY BILL
By Stas Margaronis The American Society of Civil Engineers says that a proposed five-year highway bill still lacks a revenue source, such as an increased gas tax, at a time when Congress has passed several large stimulus bills related to Covid-19 economic dislocations. A spokesperson for the American Society of Civil Engineers said on April 30th: “while EPW (U.S. Senate Environmental &...
INFRASTRUCTURE & ART: WHEN ART WORKED: NEW DEAL, ART AND DEMOCRACY BY ROGER KENNEDY
“The duty of erecting and maintaining certain public works and certain public institutions, which it can never be for the interest of any individual, or group of individuals, to erect and maintain, because the profit could never repay the expense… although it may frequently do much more than repay it to a great society.” – Adam Smith, WEALTH OF NATIONS[1] “It has been a...
American Society of Civil Engineers Says Congress Fast Tracks Highway, Waterways & Other Infrastructure Investments
Photo: Texas Transportation Institute “During the years of the conservative era (the Reagan-Bush Administrations), the national infrastructure was allowed to deteriorate to an unprecedented degree. According to the figures of the Office of Management and Budget, federal investment in public capital was cut by a third from 1976 to 1990; education and training by almost 40 percent; physical...
USCG’S SECTOR SAN FRANCISCO KEEPS SEA LANES & SUPPLY CHAIN OPEN DURING COVID-19
Sector San Francisco watch standers dispatched a MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew to rescue an overturned kayaker off the coast of Pacifica, California on Friday April 17th. (Video: U.S. Coast Guard) BY STAS MARGARONIS Deploying 24-hour per day boat crew patrols is the way U.S. Coast Guard’s (USCG) Sector San Francisco is keeping vital sea lanes safe and free of obstructions that could slow...
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