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Freivalds: Warning to the West

By John Freivalds

Published March 29^th 2020

Roanoke Times, Roanoke, Virginia

Freivalds runs an international communications firm in Lexington.

“Warning To the West”: This is the title of a 1975 book by Nobel Prize-winning author Alexander Solzhenitsyn. (“The Gulag Archipelago” is perhaps his best known book.) I started reading it anew to gain a better understanding of the Russian soul and how to deal with its current president Vladimir Putin. “Warning to the West” is full of eternal truths and dire warnings relevant to today’s Russia as we go into 2020. It’s almost as if Solzhenitsyn, who died in 2008, is saying “I told you so.”

Economic Euthanasia or Die for the Dow

By John Freivalds

JFA Press

Let's just cut to the chase, President Trump believes that we should stop worrying about the COVID-19 virus and its exponential growth and death rates and get the economy going. New York's Governor Cuomo announces that New York now has 25,000 cases of the virus and this is doubling every 3 days!

A New (and Deadly) Kind of March Madness

By John Freivalds

Published March 18^th, 2020

Duluth News Tribune

In March 1383, Venice, in what is now Italy, decreed a novel policy: Ships coming from cities suffering the black plague would be required to be moored in the Venetian lagoon for 40 days. “The black plague was horrifying, causing grotesque bubbles to swell from the armpits, face and groin and causing an outbreak of delirium, "wrote the poet Giovanni Boccaccio.

Yuck!

Yet Again The Old (Very Old) Truths Hold True

By John Freivalds

JFA Press

Alas history, even ancient history repeats itself.

Yet Again The Old (Very Old) Truths Hold True

Every Presidential election cycle finds politicians like Sanders and Warren saying what they think is new only to find out later is the same old (very old) truths, and that they destroyed what they were campaigning  for in the first place.