The Living Holocaust

Ukraine And The Lessons Not Learned

A holocaust is defined as “thorough destruction involving extensive loss of life especially through fire.” At the core of such tragedies is the extensive loss of life and I would emphasize “civilian” life. This is what happened to Jews during Hitler’s reign of terror. But wake up: this has happened, and is happening, in other places too. Maybe not by poisonous gas, fire or in mass incarceration, but it has happened with the indiscriminate killing of civilians under a barrage of missiles, chemical weapons and bombs of all kinds. These…

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MIT engineer-economist. Prof: Tufts, UT-Austin, GW. IMF Board. Mediator Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait. Writing: Econ-Finance, Oil, Sanctions, Mid-East, Islam.

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Hossein Askari

MIT engineer-economist. Prof: Tufts, UT-Austin, GW. IMF Board. Mediator Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait. Writing: Econ-Finance, Oil, Sanctions, Mid-East, Islam.