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Born in Phila, I spent most of my adolescent and adult years in Europe, resulting over time in several unique books, my latest being Russia's Americans.
CUBA: Diary of a Revolution, Inside the Cuban Revolution with Fidel, Raul, Che, and Celia Sanchez
America Revealed to a Honey-Colored World
A Taoist Politics: The Case For Sacredness
I began my journalistic career at the French News Agency in Rome, spent two years in Cuba finding out whether the Barbados were Communists before they made the revolution ('Cuba 1964: When the Revolution was Young'). After spending half a decade in Eastern Europe, and a decade in the U.S., studying Global Survival and writing speeches in the Carter State Department, I wrote the only book that foresaw the fall of the Berlin Wall AND the dissolution of the Soviet Union ("Une autre Europe, un autre Monde'). My memoir, 'Lunch with Fellini, Dinner with Fidel', tells it all. 'A Taoist Politics: The Case for Sacredness', which examines the similarities between ancient wisdom and modern science and what this implies for political activism; and 'America Revealed to a Honey-Colored World" is a pamphlet about how the U.S. came down from the City on a Hill'.
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Friday, June 10, 2016Imagining Yesterday's Obama-Sanders Conversation I've always believed that President Obama was 'allowed' to become the Democratic candidate on condition he do as he was told. It's the only charitable explanation for policies that deeply disappoint his voters, and perhaps more credible than cynicism.
Wednesday, May 25, 2016US Election: Ignorance in Charge What's behind the Trump surprising victory? Is it the ISIS threat, global warming, poor educational standards, or something more difficult to define, however hard the mass media tries - without exposing its own role in the matter, which looks hopeless.
Monday, May 16, 2016Donald Excoriated for Being like Most Men By using women, to attack Trump, the NYT betrays America's love affair with their bodies. It may be due to its lack of attention to anything else other than sports. Donald Trump should be judged for his political platform, not because he rates women.
Wednesday, May 11, 2016Trump's White Supremacist Donald's white supremacists may be distasteful to most Americans, but mainly, they refuse to see the math. And as we see currenlty in Europe, with the refugee crsis, Americns are not the only ones dreaming of an all-white state, but that is not a solution.
Saturday, May 7, 2016Stories To Watch: Europe, Turkey, Russia As London gives itself the first-ever Muslim mayor of a major European city, Paris hosts an international Occupy meeting as Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel tries to cajole the TUrkish President into behasving like a European as part of a refugee deal.
Friday, April 22, 2016Did Assad Make 'A Fatal Mistake? Read his words Western readers have had few occasions to evaluate for themselves the atittudes and behavior of the Syrian President, whom the media accuse of every atrocious behavior, mainly "Making war against his own people" and "responsible for the rise of ISIS". Here he is in his own words.
Wednesday, April 20, 2016Not only Elections are all about Winning What role does 'winning' play, aside from elections and other races? Does this meme play a positive role in today's world, or should Americans take a step back and reconsider the perhaps too dominant a role it plays in the way we view - and treat - the world?
Tuesday, March 8, 2016The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution, by Micah White Micah White began protesting in junior high school and became one of the instigators of the Occupy Movement. In this ground-breaking work, he analyzes the movement's 'constructive failures', retraces the dawn of protest, and suggests that the next revolution will owe as much to theurgy as to Marxism.
Sunday, February 28, 2016Question: What do ISIS and Trump Have in Common? Answer: Both are Backed by US Power. As Europe again falls prey to its historical weakness for fascism, the US is not far behind: Donald Trump today fudged a disavowal of the KKK and its leader David Duke, after a poll showed 20% of his supporters think it was a mistake to free US slaves.
Saturday, February 20, 2016'David' Francis takes on Donald 'Goliath' This article is about the broader implications of the meeting between Pope Francis and Russian Orthodox Archibishop Kyrill, that took place last week. Donald Trump's response to the Pope's sollicited remark that building walls is not Christian, is only the tip of the iceberg.
Wednesday, February 10, 2016Sanders vs. Trump: The End of RepDem Rule As Hillary Clinton falters earlier than when she opposed Obama, and Trump continues to rise over a crowded Republican field, unless some pretty fancy interventions take place, we could be on track to see two outsiders replace the seemingly immovable two-party system.
Sunday, February 7, 2016Story to Watch: Retired French General Arrested The focus on Europe's migrant crisis tends to obscrue the underlying left-right divide that it is fanning. The heavy influence of Neo-fascist brigades in Ukraine cautions the street presence of far-right parties across Europe as it struggles to cope with Muslim refugees.
Saturday, February 6, 2016Assange UN Decision Foreshadows Crucial Changes For the first tie since the Un was founded, there is a chance that the next Secretary General will not be a US pawn, but someone who truly represents the ethos of the majority of the organizations almost 200 members, up from 51 at its founding, if BRICS have their say.
Saturday, January 30, 2016The Piper's 'Kampf' Monday's Iowa caucuses will begin to spell out the real choices facing Americans as the first Black presidency winds down: socialism or fascism? Vladimir Putin recently noted the similarities between the socialist ethos and that of the bible, but the US may stiill be fighting the former in the name of the latter.
Saturday, January 23, 2016Our Syria Contact Dots the Madaya I's As usual, the mainstream media reports on things from its own speial angle. Recently, the Assad government has been accused of starving his own people', after being accused of "gassing his own people' and "barrel-bombing his own people. Yet it fears he'd win an election.
Saturday, January 23, 2016To Europe: Instead of Bandaids, Be Proactive! Europe was helped to its feet after orld War II by a supposedly benevolent United States, preferring not to confront its growing subservience. Now it is paying the price.
Monday, January 18, 2016A Propos the Dem Debate: Keeping the American People on their Toes The latest Democratic debate may have been deliberately scheduled ot compete with Downto Abbey, but morning-after polls give Sanders a decisive victory anyway. It has taken almost half a century from 1972 when the press totally ignored George McGovern to pundits actually admitting a socialist could win - against a fascist.
Thursday, January 14, 2016Obama's SOTU: A Study in National Denial Obama's joking insistance on the overweaning power of the US contradicts the usual mantra that we are all about peace. The fact that 'we spend more than the next eight ountries combined on defense' is precisely what has the world riled - and doesn't hide our economic vulnerability.
Saturday, January 2, 2016Merkel, Putin and the World Island New Reading of old Theory Reprised by Neocons, Is Putin living 'in another world' or is 'another world possible' on a global scale? As Putin is accused of wanting to reoccupy Eastern Europe, what does that region represent for Russia and whrtr are the Russian President's sights really directed?
Wednesday, December 16, 2015Requiem for Europe: the Apprentice Sorcerer's Work is Never Done The US was never going to tolerate a successful social-democratic Europe. The combined economic and refugee crises are intended to neutralize the space that has always separated Russia from its Western predators. This has vast implications for the South.
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