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Born in Philadelphia, I spent most of my adolescent and adult years in Europe. I began my journalistic career at the French News Agency in Rome, then worked as on-set press officer for the shooting of the Fellini film '8 1/2' in order to write a book about it. Spent two years in Cuba with the money from the book to find out whether Fidel and companions were Communists before they made the revolution. Also wrote the only book that foresaw the fall of the Berlin Wall AND the dissolution of the Soviet Union, in French. Just finished a memoir.
Friday, October 2, 2009 Chicago First Out; "We Used to Run This Place!" (8 comments)
The fact that the United States doesn't run the world anymore was just one lesson to be drawn from the fact that Chicago was beaten in the first round of voting for the 2016 summer Olympic games.
Sunday, September 20, 2009 Health Activists, Beware of Words! (2 comments)
Health care activists shoot themselves - and us - in the foot when, out of a misplaced desire to be accurate, they claim that some European countries don't "really" have single payer health care.
Thursday, August 13, 2009 Selfishness is Un-American
Americans have lost sight of the fact that self-reliance does not rule of solidarity.
Sunday, August 2, 2009 The Real Health Care Culprit (2 comments)
The media hasn't done its job educating the American people about single payer heath care.
Sunday, July 26, 2009 Beating Health Care to Death (3 comments)
Why Congress is not getting to the point about health care.
Friday, June 26, 2009 Nothing Can Stop it Now (2 comments)
The systemic process under way in Iran has reached a point of no return. The flow of energy through the system can only lead to a bifurcation. But we cannot predict what the new system will look like.
Sunday, June 21, 2009 Mulling the Mullahs (2 comments)
What's happening in Iran has happened before in other countries - and will continue to happen until the world becomes more homogeneous.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 Riding the Tiger over Mixed Terrain (1 comments)
We focus too much on the discreet elements of the planetary crisis. We need to try to see it as an organism that is responding in different ways to what is in fact an overall situation of inequality.
Friday, May 8, 2009 What Specter's Spectacular Could Portend (6 comments)
How Specter's move could make it possible to create a third party without having to start from scratch.
Sunday, April 19, 2009 Latin American Summit: Riding the Tiger Together (4 comments)
Obama's participation in the OAS summit marks the beginning of a new relationship that will also enable the advanced world to tame the tiger of inequality.
Saturday, April 4, 2009 The World in Our Living Rooms, at Last
Obama's European tour seems to have been the green light for newscasters to finally start to tell Americans what the rest of the world wants.
Monday, March 23, 2009 The American Dream is a Fairy Tale! (1 comments)
Part of the fairy tale that the media assiduously promotes is the idea of an "American Dream". That's what has got us into all this trouble. What makes matters worse, is that the media pretends to be "objective"!
Thursday, February 19, 2009 Liebermann All the Way (2 comments)
Could Avigdor Liebermann's campaign to require loyalty oaths from Israeli Arabs point the way to a solution to the sixty year old conflict?
Friday, February 6, 2009 Two Winter Tales
Winter in the U.S.: thousands without gas or electricity in freezing weather. Winter in Davos, Switzerland: world leaders gather to debate the global crisis - partly on live TV!
Monday, January 19, 2009 Of Davids and Goliaths: Letter to Barack Obama
Why and how Obama can get a two-fer by changing the missions in Afghanistan and recognizing that piecemeal is unnecessary and unacceptable.
Saturday, January 17, 2009 Who's Goliath Now? (3 comments)
The Israelis have forgotten one of their founding legends, the story of David and Goliath.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 Cradle to Grave Television
We've already got cradle to grave television, now all we need is to apply it to solidarity.
Thursday, November 13, 2008 Making Everything Right (6 comments)
The MSM media is addicted to fairy tales.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 Is Service to Country the Answer? (16 comments)
Is nationalism still viable? Do we owe service to a country or to the world?
Sunday, November 9, 2008 Genius Idea at Checkout (2 comments)
Keep wearing you Obama button, to remind the President-elect that yes, he can.
Thursday, November 6, 2008 A Shadow Cabinet? (4 comments)
In what may be an American first, Obama is already setting up his government. Will Congress decide to shorten future transition times?
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 Where Can He Take Us? (2 comments)
Marking the date with predictions of how Obama will take us where the grass roots - and the rest of the world - wants him to go.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 An Obama Morning
Sights and sounds around the Obama Philadelphia headquarters on the morning of the vote.
Monday, November 3, 2008 Liberal or Progressive: What's in a Name? (1 comments)
Why split hairs over the labels liberal and progressive when the real need is for an exploration of successful social democratic societies?
Friday, October 31, 2008 A Race Between Cuba and the U.S. (2 comments)
A new movement for participatory, democratic socialism, arises in Cuba, with a detailed blueprint.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 Time to Get Fascism Out of the Closet (4 comments)
This article opens a discussion of fascism as the 400 pound gorilla in our political discussions.
Sunday, October 19, 2008 From Freedom Fries to French Crow (4 comments)
The real significance of the encounter between George Bush and French president Nicolas Sarkozy, yesterday at Camp David.
Monday, October 6, 2008 Palin's Roman Circus
Sarah Palin in Clearwater Florida this morning with a red, white and blue crowd.
Friday, October 3, 2008 Backdoor Socialism (3 comments)
What's behind the Republican reference to backdoor socialism?
