Author Archives: Kartik Krishnaiyer
Liberation ideology and the Ukraine conflict
I have a long history of opposing western intervention and US imperialism while supporting liberation movements across the globe. Therefore, I have been stunned by that so many vocal people in the United States and United Kingdom who associate with the progressive ideology have reflexively either taken Russia’s side in the conflict, or have joined […]
Re-upping my January apology to Coach L
Miami plays in the NCAA Elite Eight today vs Kansas. It’s a remarkable achievement given Miami has never gotten this far in the NCAA Tournament despite having at least a half dozen teams (if not more) in the last 25 years on paper better than this one. Miami has won both the Big East and […]
Major jetBlue cuts highlight the week in commercial aviation
JetBlue is cutting the following routes for the summer, taking an ax to their Fort Lauderdale hub: Fort Lauderdale-Cartagena/Chicago-O’Hare/Cleveland/Grand Cayman/Port-of-Spain/Portland (OR)/Providenciales/Seattle-Tacoma/St Maarten West Palm Beach-Los Angeles also being cut for the summer. Southwest is bumping Fort Lauderdale-Havana nonstop back to THREE TIMES daily in the summer. A lot of empty planes going to be making […]
Governor DeSantis is suddenly interested in women’s sport?
Last fall, I repeatedly complained that Governor DeSantis avoided congratulating the NCAA Women’s Soccer National Champions, Florida State Seminoles while he was busy tweeting about (boys) little league baseball, American football and other sports going on in Florida (in-between tweets about Florida businesses and attacking Covid regulations, etc, etc). It should be noted FSU has […]
Florida continues to refuse to divest from Russia – Democrats finally pounce
The State of Florida, as discussed repeatedly on this site has invested more than $300 million in public money in Russian companies. These include energy conglomerates, oil producers, and banks with direct ties to high-ranking Russian oligarchs. These ties extend to government officials who are involved in Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. As I have […]
The economy of slavery, the 1740 Siege of St Augustine and the War of Jenkins Ear
Slavery created an economic system that wasn’t long-term beneficial to the American south. We discuss on this week’s Florida History Podcast, how the system of slavery in the south kept the economy of the region down as a lead in to discuss the 1740 Siege of St Augustine and the War of Jenkins Ear which […]
Why is the state of Florida refusing to divest from Russia?
This is a very simple question, but given the opportunity at the end of legislative session, the legislature instead felt passing performative socially regressive legislation was more important. So why exactly is the state refusing to divest from Russia, at a time when economic pressure seems to be the only way to potentially curtail Putin’s […]
Florida’s post-vaccine Covid failure in comparison to other states. Dana Milbank asks how Does Ron DeSantis sleep at night? We’ve been wondering as well…
Governor DeSantis unwillingness to promote vaccines once it became politically inconvenient for him had deadly consequences for Floridians. The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank broke down Governor DeSantis’ post-July 1st, 2021 Covid failures in a brilliant piece earlier this week. After vaccines became widely-available, Florida had a 153 deaths per 100,000 residents. This was more than […]
The Florida Squeeze 