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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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Thursday, January 30, 2014
A time-line comparison of the rise of Fascism in Nazi Germany and today's United States. Americans are seeing their freedoms being cut away, slice by slice, by the govt, & with each slice, we dispose of fewer means to prevent the next cut. The corp media condemns Hitler-worshipping hate groups, but appears not to notice that the NSA, PRISM, FISA, facial recognition, drones, etc. are techno-logically embellished equivalents of the means Hitler used to consolidate power with the backing of Germany's industrialists
Thursday, January 30, 2014A time-line comparison of the rise of Fascism in Nazi Germany and today's United States. Americans are seeing their freedoms being cut away, slice by slice, by the govt, & with each slice, we dispose of fewer means to prevent the next cut. The corp media condemns Hitler-worshipping hate groups, but appears not to notice that the NSA, PRISM, FISA, facial recognition, drones, etc. are techno-logically embellished equivalents of the means Hitler used to consolidate power with the backing of Germany's industrialists
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Friday, April 22, 2016
Did 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.
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.
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Saturday, March 22, 2014
The Rise and Fall of American Exceptionalism The origins and development of American exceptionalism and why it ultimately failed.
Saturday, March 22, 2014The Rise and Fall of American Exceptionalism The origins and development of American exceptionalism and why it ultimately failed.
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Thursday, June 19, 2014
Poland: Ukraine's Other Nemesis Poland 'indispensable' role in Ukraine.
Thursday, June 19, 2014Poland: Ukraine's Other Nemesis Poland 'indispensable' role in Ukraine.
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Thursday, June 12, 2014
How So-Called Progressive Journalists Mislead the Public A typical misleading article deconstructed.
Series: Deconstructing the Media (3 Articles, 7943 views)
Thursday, June 12, 2014How So-Called Progressive Journalists Mislead the Public A typical misleading article deconstructed.
Series: Deconstructing the Media (3 Articles, 7943 views)
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Tuesday, February 10, 2015
On the Brink of WWIII, A Primer on Russian History-- Facts and Fantasy On the day before a meeting that may decide whether Washington succeeds in starting a third world war, a primer on Russian history, going way back, and showing that today's accusations of boundary change by Washington are incorrect.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015On the Brink of WWIII, A Primer on Russian History-- Facts and Fantasy On the day before a meeting that may decide whether Washington succeeds in starting a third world war, a primer on Russian history, going way back, and showing that today's accusations of boundary change by Washington are incorrect.
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Monday, December 22, 2014
The Hidden Australia/Syria Story All is not what it has seemed in last week's hostage-taking in Sydney.
Monday, December 22, 2014The Hidden Australia/Syria Story All is not what it has seemed in last week's hostage-taking in Sydney.
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Saturday, November 26, 2016
Fidel Castro: A Giant Has Passed In July, 1963, Fidel Castro knocked on my door at the Habana Libre. I had been scheduled to depart that very morning, having exhausted my funds in what seemed like a hopeless attempt to reach him with my request for a 'portrait' for the French weekly Paris Match. A last minute intervention by the foreign minister,changed what would have been the next 50 years of my life
Saturday, November 26, 2016Fidel Castro: A Giant Has Passed In July, 1963, Fidel Castro knocked on my door at the Habana Libre. I had been scheduled to depart that very morning, having exhausted my funds in what seemed like a hopeless attempt to reach him with my request for a 'portrait' for the French weekly Paris Match. A last minute intervention by the foreign minister,changed what would have been the next 50 years of my life
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Sunday, April 5, 2015
Tell Me What You Read and I'll Tell You Who You Are What we read and how we read are two notions that have been buried in the polemics over the way we teach children to read. The consequences are far-reaching.
Sunday, April 5, 2015Tell Me What You Read and I'll Tell You Who You Are What we read and how we read are two notions that have been buried in the polemics over the way we teach children to read. The consequences are far-reaching.
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Friday, May 16, 2014
The Largest Democracy in the World To Be Governed by The Extreme Right What are the implications of the stunning election of an anti-Muslim nationalist to lead India?
Friday, May 16, 2014The Largest Democracy in the World To Be Governed by The Extreme Right What are the implications of the stunning election of an anti-Muslim nationalist to lead India?
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Sunday, December 6, 2015
Don't Take Your Eyes Off Europe! If there is a Third World War it may not be centered in Europe, as the two preceeding ones were, but Europe's successful embrace of supra-nationalism does not prevent it from once again falling for fascism, as the US allows itself to be seduced for the first time.
Sunday, December 6, 2015Don't Take Your Eyes Off Europe! If there is a Third World War it may not be centered in Europe, as the two preceeding ones were, but Europe's successful embrace of supra-nationalism does not prevent it from once again falling for fascism, as the US allows itself to be seduced for the first time.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014
A Syrian Resident Dots the 'I's on ISIS The ties between a US Senator and ISIS, and the role of Southern Turkey in the Syria conflict.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014A Syrian Resident Dots the 'I's on ISIS The ties between a US Senator and ISIS, and the role of Southern Turkey in the Syria conflict.
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Thursday, November 3, 2016
The US Empire Versus Russia's America's war-mongers have been repeating like a mantra that Russia aspires to recreate its empire - or that of the Soviet Union, citing non-existent threats to the tiny Baltic states as 'proof'. But most of the world's people are painfully aware that the shoe is on the other foot.
Thursday, November 3, 2016The US Empire Versus Russia's America's war-mongers have been repeating like a mantra that Russia aspires to recreate its empire - or that of the Soviet Union, citing non-existent threats to the tiny Baltic states as 'proof'. But most of the world's people are painfully aware that the shoe is on the other foot.
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Sunday, June 7, 2015
The 'R' Word is Out Chris Hedges called for revolution in these pages on the same day that, maybe the first time, demonstrators opposing the G-7 Summit in Germany's beautiful Bavanian Alpes hoisted signs calling for Revolution against Capitalism and Globalization. It's a watershed.
Sunday, June 7, 2015The 'R' Word is Out Chris Hedges called for revolution in these pages on the same day that, maybe the first time, demonstrators opposing the G-7 Summit in Germany's beautiful Bavanian Alpes hoisted signs calling for Revolution against Capitalism and Globalization. It's a watershed.
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Saturday, April 26, 2014
Breaking News on Ukraine from George Eliason Notes from the field on a fast moving situation in Ukraine, as the world watches with baited breath and Kerry spins out of control.
Saturday, April 26, 2014Breaking News on Ukraine from George Eliason Notes from the field on a fast moving situation in Ukraine, as the world watches with baited breath and Kerry spins out of control.
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Thursday, March 26, 2015
Whatsa Democracy? Democracy is one of the most over-worked and under-defined words. What is it supposed to mean, and what does the evidence show that it means?
Thursday, March 26, 2015Whatsa Democracy? Democracy is one of the most over-worked and under-defined words. What is it supposed to mean, and what does the evidence show that it means?
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Saturday, February 22, 2014
Venezuela, Syria, Ukraine: Axis of Evil or Civilization Flatlining? What do Venezuela, Syria and Ukraine have in common?
Saturday, February 22, 2014Venezuela, Syria, Ukraine: Axis of Evil or Civilization Flatlining? What do Venezuela, Syria and Ukraine have in common?
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Friday, May 9, 2014
The Russian Tradition, by Tibor Szamuely, reviewed by Deena Stryker A book published in the seventies holds the key to deciphering the crisis in Ukraine.
Series: Books Old and New (7 Articles, 10901 views)
Friday, May 9, 2014The Russian Tradition, by Tibor Szamuely, reviewed by Deena Stryker A book published in the seventies holds the key to deciphering the crisis in Ukraine.
Series: Books Old and New (7 Articles, 10901 views)
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Thursday, April 23, 2015
TPP Isn't Just US Workers' Fight President Obama alluded to MSM's Ed Schultz today, as he continued to defend the TPP against a rising tide of opposition from his own party, led by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. But neihter Ed nor the rest of the media is telling the American people that the trade deal hurts workers abroad as well.
Thursday, April 23, 2015TPP Isn't Just US Workers' Fight President Obama alluded to MSM's Ed Schultz today, as he continued to defend the TPP against a rising tide of opposition from his own party, led by Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. But neihter Ed nor the rest of the media is telling the American people that the trade deal hurts workers abroad as well.
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Friday, June 27, 2014
Ukraine in The New Yorker: Instead of Sy Hersh, Keith Gessen A deconstruction of a personal account of the Ukraine crisis by an aspiring literary figure - instead of an investigative reporter.
Series: Deconstructing the Media (3 Articles, 7943 views)
Friday, June 27, 2014Ukraine in The New Yorker: Instead of Sy Hersh, Keith Gessen A deconstruction of a personal account of the Ukraine crisis by an aspiring literary figure - instead of an investigative reporter.
Series: Deconstructing the Media (3 Articles, 7943 views)
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Sunday, June 19, 2016
Read what Putin actually said in St.Petersburg about NATO Vladimir Putin teased Fareed Zakaria about his inaccurate portrayal of the Russian President's words concerning US Republican presumptive Pesidential nominee Donald Trump, but that is not the only example of the way the US media reports on people the US doesn't like.
Sunday, June 19, 2016Read what Putin actually said in St.Petersburg about NATO Vladimir Putin teased Fareed Zakaria about his inaccurate portrayal of the Russian President's words concerning US Republican presumptive Pesidential nominee Donald Trump, but that is not the only example of the way the US media reports on people the US doesn't like.
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015
What Does Europe Want? A Book Review How intellectuals from two of Europe's smallest countries, which had once been part of the now defunct Yugoslavia, see the future of a continent that in the eyes of the US has offered too many perks to its citizens to be allowed to coninue unmolested.
Series: Books Old and New (7 Articles, 10901 views)
Tuesday, June 2, 2015What Does Europe Want? A Book Review How intellectuals from two of Europe's smallest countries, which had once been part of the now defunct Yugoslavia, see the future of a continent that in the eyes of the US has offered too many perks to its citizens to be allowed to coninue unmolested.
Series: Books Old and New (7 Articles, 10901 views)
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Sunday, November 6, 2016
Americans Are Having a Collective Breakdown Never has a presidential election been so fraught, in a country that not so long ago treated them like circuses. After 9/11, Americans asked 'Why?'Now they are asking 'How did we come to this, in the greatest country the world has ever known, wondering if it still is.
Sunday, November 6, 2016Americans Are Having a Collective Breakdown Never has a presidential election been so fraught, in a country that not so long ago treated them like circuses. After 9/11, Americans asked 'Why?'Now they are asking 'How did we come to this, in the greatest country the world has ever known, wondering if it still is.
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016
Orlando Massacre was Not a Hate Crime The Gay Community was not the Target There will be conflicting opinions about Omar Mateen forever. One Syrian observer believes he chose a gay nightclub because it was a place he knew and he could count on their being a lot of people that could easily and quickly be killed. Everyone may not agree.
Tuesday, June 21, 2016Orlando Massacre was Not a Hate Crime The Gay Community was not the Target There will be conflicting opinions about Omar Mateen forever. One Syrian observer believes he chose a gay nightclub because it was a place he knew and he could count on their being a lot of people that could easily and quickly be killed. Everyone may not agree.
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Sunday, October 23, 2016
Europeans not Laughing now at America's Sex Problem Donald Trump has not helped America's obsession with sex - or its misuse - with his locker-room talk, but compared to the nineties, when Bill Clinton was being impeached, sex-wise Europe is probably revising what was then a witty, unending laugh fest.
Sunday, October 23, 2016Europeans not Laughing now at America's Sex Problem Donald Trump has not helped America's obsession with sex - or its misuse - with his locker-room talk, but compared to the nineties, when Bill Clinton was being impeached, sex-wise Europe is probably revising what was then a witty, unending laugh fest.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Latin America in Perspective by Raffaele Morgantini and Tarik Bou This articel features the text of a speech given by Ecuadroan President raffael Correa in French at the Sorbonne in November, 2013, and it particularly timely as Europe slips deeper into crisis, coping with austerity, increased immigration from war-torn Africa and the MIddle East and US plans for war with Russia on its soil.
Tuesday, May 12, 2015Latin America in Perspective by Raffaele Morgantini and Tarik Bou This articel features the text of a speech given by Ecuadroan President raffael Correa in French at the Sorbonne in November, 2013, and it particularly timely as Europe slips deeper into crisis, coping with austerity, increased immigration from war-torn Africa and the MIddle East and US plans for war with Russia on its soil.
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Sunday, February 1, 2015
How About a US Donbass Brigade? During he Spanish Civil War Americans orgnized the LIcoln Brigade to fight alongside the foes of Franco. The time has come for another such initiative in favor of eastern Ukraine.
Sunday, February 1, 2015How About a US Donbass Brigade? During he Spanish Civil War Americans orgnized the LIcoln Brigade to fight alongside the foes of Franco. The time has come for another such initiative in favor of eastern Ukraine.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
China Rising! A Review This hefty tome is well worth the read because it tells you everything you've always wanted to know about China, plus a lot you don't know about the US as a with. Jeff Brown is that rare American who has been an expat in three different parts of the world and took the trouble to learn Mandarin.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016China Rising! A Review This hefty tome is well worth the read because it tells you everything you've always wanted to know about China, plus a lot you don't know about the US as a with. Jeff Brown is that rare American who has been an expat in three different parts of the world and took the trouble to learn Mandarin.
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Wednesday, November 4, 2015
The Skinny on Assad's 'Hospital' Bombings As testified by many reports from Doctors Without Borders, many of their hospitals have been hit across the Middle East war zone. However, a Syrian resident reports that the word 'hospital' is often used loosely when describing bombings in Syrian war zones.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015The Skinny on Assad's 'Hospital' Bombings As testified by many reports from Doctors Without Borders, many of their hospitals have been hit across the Middle East war zone. However, a Syrian resident reports that the word 'hospital' is often used loosely when describing bombings in Syrian war zones.
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Saturday, February 6, 2016
Assange 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, 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.
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Saturday, July 25, 2015
High-Level French Delegation to Crimea Signals "The Power of Impossible Ideas" Since the Reagan era, an American woman has been taking Americans to visit the SovietUnion/Russia and bringing Russians to learn US business practices. She calls this 'citizen diplomacy', and the practice is increasingly alive and well among our European allies.
Saturday, July 25, 2015High-Level French Delegation to Crimea Signals "The Power of Impossible Ideas" Since the Reagan era, an American woman has been taking Americans to visit the SovietUnion/Russia and bringing Russians to learn US business practices. She calls this 'citizen diplomacy', and the practice is increasingly alive and well among our European allies.
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Saturday, July 25, 2015
Story to Watch: The Brits Eye the BRICS While a delegation of French lawmakers was visiting the Crimea to get its own take on whether its Russian inhabitants were forced to rejoin Russia or wheher the referendum was legitimate, as a first step toward reneging on sanctions against Russia that they US made them inpose, Great Britain wants to exchange the Eu for the BRICS and the SCA.
Saturday, July 25, 2015Story to Watch: The Brits Eye the BRICS While a delegation of French lawmakers was visiting the Crimea to get its own take on whether its Russian inhabitants were forced to rejoin Russia or wheher the referendum was legitimate, as a first step toward reneging on sanctions against Russia that they US made them inpose, Great Britain wants to exchange the Eu for the BRICS and the SCA.
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Tuesday, March 4, 2014
Ukraine’s Far-Right Deconstructed Who was Stepan Bandera and why is he still a Ukrainian hero, seventy-five years after his days of glory?
Tuesday, March 4, 2014Ukraine’s Far-Right Deconstructed Who was Stepan Bandera and why is he still a Ukrainian hero, seventy-five years after his days of glory?
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Saturday, February 28, 2015
In Europe, the Arithmetic of Otherness and Sovereignty What can possibly prevent Europe from becoming, over the long run, a Muslim polity, and how can Europe's leaders gain the freedom to deal with this issue?
Saturday, February 28, 2015In Europe, the Arithmetic of Otherness and Sovereignty What can possibly prevent Europe from becoming, over the long run, a Muslim polity, and how can Europe's leaders gain the freedom to deal with this issue?
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Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Sanders 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.
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.
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Friday, December 6, 2019
Healthcare: It isn't enough just to scrap private ensurers: How Other Countries Pay for Health Care The US is on the wrong track when it obsesses over paying for health care.
Friday, December 6, 2019Healthcare: It isn't enough just to scrap private ensurers: How Other Countries Pay for Health Care The US is on the wrong track when it obsesses over paying for health care.
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Friday, September 16, 2016
Post-Modernism and the 'Alt' and 'New' Rights About a week ago, Hillary Clinton referred to the "Alt' right, as part of a screed against Donald Trump's right-wing supporters such as David Duke. But America's 'Alt' right is not the only new right currently occupying people's minds. Europe's 'New' right has taken over many left-wing attitudes.
Friday, September 16, 2016Post-Modernism and the 'Alt' and 'New' Rights About a week ago, Hillary Clinton referred to the "Alt' right, as part of a screed against Donald Trump's right-wing supporters such as David Duke. But America's 'Alt' right is not the only new right currently occupying people's minds. Europe's 'New' right has taken over many left-wing attitudes.
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Story to Watch: US/Russia/Iran/China/Syria There's nothing like seeing enemies link arms to get a bully to realize the gig is up. As Donald Trump revs up support among his followers for repairing relations with Russia, the present administration finally gets it: ISIS, not Russia, is the enemy.
Tuesday, August 16, 2016Story to Watch: US/Russia/Iran/China/Syria There's nothing like seeing enemies link arms to get a bully to realize the gig is up. As Donald Trump revs up support among his followers for repairing relations with Russia, the present administration finally gets it: ISIS, not Russia, is the enemy.
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Sunday, May 17, 2015
Empire: Duping With A Democracy Lure For Democrats to line up behind Bernie Sanders they would have to shed their illusions about the word 'democracy' and realize that our system has deviated so far from what the word has traditionally meant that its use only furthers voter illusions about what is possible.
Sunday, May 17, 2015Empire: Duping With A Democracy Lure For Democrats to line up behind Bernie Sanders they would have to shed their illusions about the word 'democracy' and realize that our system has deviated so far from what the word has traditionally meant that its use only furthers voter illusions about what is possible.
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Monday, December 19, 2016
Anti-Russian Feeding Frenzy instead of New World Information Order Fifty years ago there was an opportunity for the world -- though divided between East and West -- to agree on new principles concerning the production and dissemination of news and information more broadly. Guess why the initiative by the third world went nowhere?
Monday, December 19, 2016Anti-Russian Feeding Frenzy instead of New World Information Order Fifty years ago there was an opportunity for the world -- though divided between East and West -- to agree on new principles concerning the production and dissemination of news and information more broadly. Guess why the initiative by the third world went nowhere?
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Monday, September 1, 2014
Europe's Demons Background and last-minute news as Europe flirts with another war.
Monday, September 1, 2014Europe's Demons Background and last-minute news as Europe flirts with another war.
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Saturday, November 28, 2015
Fortress Europe and Its Trojan Horse How did it happen that beautiful, prosperous, fair-minded Europe, the envy of the world, descended into utter chaos in just a few short months, as hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing violence elsewhere flocked to its shores, uninvited, unwanted, and uncared for?
Saturday, November 28, 2015Fortress Europe and Its Trojan Horse How did it happen that beautiful, prosperous, fair-minded Europe, the envy of the world, descended into utter chaos in just a few short months, as hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing violence elsewhere flocked to its shores, uninvited, unwanted, and uncared for?
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Friday, September 12, 2014
Why ISIS? What is ISIS's principle motivation for jihad and why are many Westerners joining it?
Friday, September 12, 2014Why ISIS? What is ISIS's principle motivation for jihad and why are many Westerners joining it?
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Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Is the Idea of Europe Doomed? Europe is imiploding under the assualt of hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle East and Africa. Never imagining that following two major wars in one century their almost perfect world, would find itself once again unable to act cooperatively, it dithers while thousands suffer.
Tuesday, September 8, 2015Is the Idea of Europe Doomed? Europe is imiploding under the assualt of hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Middle East and Africa. Never imagining that following two major wars in one century their almost perfect world, would find itself once again unable to act cooperatively, it dithers while thousands suffer.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014
Washington's Behavior is no Mystery! Washington's behavior is not about people of good will not realizing what they are doing.
Wednesday, May 7, 2014Washington's Behavior is no Mystery! Washington's behavior is not about people of good will not realizing what they are doing.
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Sunday, August 14, 2016
Carrying the anti-Russian Narrative Forward Americans can't be expected to know hte detailed history of every counry in the world, but at a time when there is serious talk of starting a nuclear war with Russia by Hillary Clinton, who could be the next president, knowledge of recent Russian/Ukranian history should be mandatory for all.
Sunday, August 14, 2016Carrying the anti-Russian Narrative Forward Americans can't be expected to know hte detailed history of every counry in the world, but at a time when there is serious talk of starting a nuclear war with Russia by Hillary Clinton, who could be the next president, knowledge of recent Russian/Ukranian history should be mandatory for all.
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Thursday, April 9, 2015
Tell me What you Watch and I'll tell you What you Know What are the advantages of watching foreign government backed television channels such as RT, known as 'Putin's bullhorn' in Washington, or France 24, the BBC or Japan's NHK? And what is least noticed, but crucial aspect of the Russian channel?
Thursday, April 9, 2015Tell me What you Watch and I'll tell you What you Know What are the advantages of watching foreign government backed television channels such as RT, known as 'Putin's bullhorn' in Washington, or France 24, the BBC or Japan's NHK? And what is least noticed, but crucial aspect of the Russian channel?
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Friday, August 22, 2014
For Europe: Finlandization's Revenge or a Eurasian Identity? What Putin's Eurasia project could mean for Europe.
Friday, August 22, 2014For Europe: Finlandization's Revenge or a Eurasian Identity? What Putin's Eurasia project could mean for Europe.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Ukraine via the Chicago School How the Chicago School influenced the events in Ukraine.
Tuesday, March 11, 2014Ukraine via the Chicago School How the Chicago School influenced the events in Ukraine.
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Saturday, January 31, 2015
What Syriza Owes Iceland Greece's 'coup' owes much to Iceland's example.
Saturday, January 31, 2015What Syriza Owes Iceland Greece's 'coup' owes much to Iceland's example.
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Thursday, January 2, 2014
The 1%'s Guidelines on Terrorism for 2014 Why does the United States support the same forces in Syria that we are supposedly fighting in the war on terror? As half the world descends into chaos while the other half stares at its navel, a few things are becoming increasingly clear: not only is "terrorism' in the eye of the beholder, but the 1% wants socialism for itself even if that means feudalism for the 99%.
Thursday, January 2, 2014The 1%'s Guidelines on Terrorism for 2014 Why does the United States support the same forces in Syria that we are supposedly fighting in the war on terror? As half the world descends into chaos while the other half stares at its navel, a few things are becoming increasingly clear: not only is "terrorism' in the eye of the beholder, but the 1% wants socialism for itself even if that means feudalism for the 99%.
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Friday, September 12, 2014
The Free Syrian Army Has Pleged Allegiance to ISIS As President Obama ponders air strikes on Syria over President Assad's head, an American who has lived there for decades reports on the true situation on the ground, Senator McCain's illusions - or propaganda - notwithstanding
Friday, September 12, 2014The Free Syrian Army Has Pleged Allegiance to ISIS As President Obama ponders air strikes on Syria over President Assad's head, an American who has lived there for decades reports on the true situation on the ground, Senator McCain's illusions - or propaganda - notwithstanding
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Mumia Jamal Hospitalized without Explanation Why is Mumia Abu -Ja;am, the celebrated Black Panther Leader, beging denied visits as he is reported to be in a ciritical condition by his jailers?
Tuesday, March 31, 2015Mumia Jamal Hospitalized without Explanation Why is Mumia Abu -Ja;am, the celebrated Black Panther Leader, beging denied visits as he is reported to be in a ciritical condition by his jailers?
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Friday, October 21, 2016
Syria Up-date from Our Inside Syria Contact: For the past two years, OEN has been publishing reports from a dual US/Syrian citizen who follows events from her home, This recent thread gives readers a feel for what is happening on the ground in a war instigated and pursued for unpublicized reasons by the US.
Friday, October 21, 2016Syria Up-date from Our Inside Syria Contact: For the past two years, OEN has been publishing reports from a dual US/Syrian citizen who follows events from her home, This recent thread gives readers a feel for what is happening on the ground in a war instigated and pursued for unpublicized reasons by the US.
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Monday, August 1, 2016
Trump/Putin: It's the Ukraine, Stupid! The official part of the Trunp saga is only just beginning as the Dems and the Reps begin mudslinging in earnest. Behind Trump's insterest in Putin - and vice versa - are matters that have little or nothing to do with ideology, but plent to do with war and peace.
Monday, August 1, 2016Trump/Putin: It's the Ukraine, Stupid! The official part of the Trunp saga is only just beginning as the Dems and the Reps begin mudslinging in earnest. Behind Trump's insterest in Putin - and vice versa - are matters that have little or nothing to do with ideology, but plent to do with war and peace.
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Thursday, December 7, 2017
China is Communist, Dammit, a Review This third book on China by Jeff J Brown tops them all, revealing the fact that the communist ethos goes much farther back in time than Maos Long March. It's called the Heavenly Mandate, but Brown calls it Baba Beijing, confident it's here to last.
Thursday, December 7, 2017China is Communist, Dammit, a Review This third book on China by Jeff J Brown tops them all, revealing the fact that the communist ethos goes much farther back in time than Maos Long March. It's called the Heavenly Mandate, but Brown calls it Baba Beijing, confident it's here to last.
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Saturday, March 14, 2015
Iran as it Shows Itself and as Imagined by Others An eloquent illustration of the contribution of motion pictures to political literacy.
Saturday, March 14, 2015Iran as it Shows Itself and as Imagined by Others An eloquent illustration of the contribution of motion pictures to political literacy.
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
The Privatization of the World American activists need to pay more attention to worldwide opposition to the twin so-called trade treaties, TAFTA and TPP, that would give the international coporatocracy total control of economic activity worldwide, under American aegis.
Wednesday, November 20, 2013The Privatization of the World American activists need to pay more attention to worldwide opposition to the twin so-called trade treaties, TAFTA and TPP, that would give the international coporatocracy total control of economic activity worldwide, under American aegis.
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Thursday, October 6, 2016
The Sins of the Fathers The handful of Americans who read English language Russian blogs and watch Russia Today (RT) cannot prevent Washington's diabolical plan to effectuate regime change in Russia, either by provoking President Putin militarily (Ukraine, Syria), by more sinister means or even recourse to the unthinkable.
Thursday, October 6, 2016The Sins of the Fathers The handful of Americans who read English language Russian blogs and watch Russia Today (RT) cannot prevent Washington's diabolical plan to effectuate regime change in Russia, either by provoking President Putin militarily (Ukraine, Syria), by more sinister means or even recourse to the unthinkable.
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Friday, October 14, 2016
Syria is Even More Complicated than We Think An American woman who has lived in Syria for over twenty years, raising a US/Syrian family, follows events there closely. Her latest email includes details of US/Saudi support for ISIS that even the alternative media does not seem to know about. Judge for yourselves.
Friday, October 14, 2016Syria is Even More Complicated than We Think An American woman who has lived in Syria for over twenty years, raising a US/Syrian family, follows events there closely. Her latest email includes details of US/Saudi support for ISIS that even the alternative media does not seem to know about. Judge for yourselves.
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Saturday, January 10, 2015
The Jewish Part of the Charlie Equation The Charlie Hebdo backstory.
Saturday, January 10, 2015The Jewish Part of the Charlie Equation The Charlie Hebdo backstory.
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Monday, November 23, 2015
Sliding into War There is much talk of a third wold war, set off either by the crisis in Ukraine or the spread of ISIS. How does our attitude differ from the way populations in Germany or Japan experienced the run-up to the previous world war, which we thought they should have been able to prevent?
Monday, November 23, 2015Sliding into War There is much talk of a third wold war, set off either by the crisis in Ukraine or the spread of ISIS. How does our attitude differ from the way populations in Germany or Japan experienced the run-up to the previous world war, which we thought they should have been able to prevent?
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Thursday, May 29, 2014
Who's a Terrorist, What's a Terrorist? How government uses labels to put us to sleep.
Thursday, May 29, 2014Who's a Terrorist, What's a Terrorist? How government uses labels to put us to sleep.
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Friday, May 15, 2015
The Skinny on Europe-Russia Relations The alternative press is buzzing with speculation over the possibility that Europe may at last be emancipating itself from Washington's heavy-handed oversight. But it's not clear how this could come about. A conversation between a Russian journalist and a german diplomat provides answers.
Friday, May 15, 2015The Skinny on Europe-Russia Relations The alternative press is buzzing with speculation over the possibility that Europe may at last be emancipating itself from Washington's heavy-handed oversight. But it's not clear how this could come about. A conversation between a Russian journalist and a german diplomat provides answers.
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Saturday, June 18, 2016
This is How it Starts What role will be assigned to the mainstream press when the world - if it survives into the future - looks back. at the hundredth anniversary of the Russian revolution. Will 20th century Americans be judged less harshly than they judged 1930's Germans?
Saturday, June 18, 2016This is How it Starts What role will be assigned to the mainstream press when the world - if it survives into the future - looks back. at the hundredth anniversary of the Russian revolution. Will 20th century Americans be judged less harshly than they judged 1930's Germans?
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Friday, December 12, 2014
Two Ways of Owning the World How do governments 'own' the world, and how can citizens own it?
Friday, December 12, 2014Two Ways of Owning the World How do governments 'own' the world, and how can citizens own it?
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Friday, June 10, 2016
Imagining 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.
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.
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Thursday, January 4, 2018
Red Hangover, by Kristen Ghodsee, a Review As Russophobia continues unabated, this book should be required reading for all Americans, who have been kept totally in the dark about 'real socialis' for almost a century. The author is an ethnographer whose personal ties to Eastern Europe encouraged her to take the region as the object of her highly accessible work.
Thursday, January 4, 2018Red Hangover, by Kristen Ghodsee, a Review As Russophobia continues unabated, this book should be required reading for all Americans, who have been kept totally in the dark about 'real socialis' for almost a century. The author is an ethnographer whose personal ties to Eastern Europe encouraged her to take the region as the object of her highly accessible work.
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Monday, October 3, 2016
On Any Given Day, Americans are Out of the Loop The US media blackout of almost everything going on in the world outside the United States is never as blatant as during the presidential election season. You would think news anchors would hunger for something new to say, as they count the days to November 8th.
Monday, October 3, 2016On Any Given Day, Americans are Out of the Loop The US media blackout of almost everything going on in the world outside the United States is never as blatant as during the presidential election season. You would think news anchors would hunger for something new to say, as they count the days to November 8th.
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Friday, August 14, 2015
An American Born Syrian Speaks Out The refugee/immigrant crisis in Europe is taking a back seat in the news to stories of military battles, but it is no less significant. Europe has not faced a true crisis since the end of World War II. But even as it celebrates the seventieth anniversary of its end, it faces disintegration from within.
Friday, August 14, 2015An American Born Syrian Speaks Out The refugee/immigrant crisis in Europe is taking a back seat in the news to stories of military battles, but it is no less significant. Europe has not faced a true crisis since the end of World War II. But even as it celebrates the seventieth anniversary of its end, it faces disintegration from within.
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Sunday, May 10, 2015
The Countdown in Syria Here is a first hand account of the military situation in Syria and what it means for those who cannot - or will not - leave their homeland, whether Muslims, Christians or Kurds. The role being played by Turkey is brushed ove rlightly in the mainstream press.
Sunday, May 10, 2015The Countdown in Syria Here is a first hand account of the military situation in Syria and what it means for those who cannot - or will not - leave their homeland, whether Muslims, Christians or Kurds. The role being played by Turkey is brushed ove rlightly in the mainstream press.
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Capitol Sit-In Message: Revolution is Allowed! Senator Elizabeth Warren brought donuts to her fellow Democrats staging a sit-in at the House of Representatives les by civil-right ikon John Lewis to demand a gun control vote, as sleeping bags were brought in for a sleep-in. Is it possibel that Occupy Lives?
Wednesday, June 22, 2016Capitol Sit-In Message: Revolution is Allowed! Senator Elizabeth Warren brought donuts to her fellow Democrats staging a sit-in at the House of Representatives les by civil-right ikon John Lewis to demand a gun control vote, as sleeping bags were brought in for a sleep-in. Is it possibel that Occupy Lives?
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Tuesday, May 5, 2015
The Left Side of History: World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe, by Kristen Ghodsee A remarkable work of literary ethnogrphy that explains why many in Eastern Europeans are nostalgic for the Communist regimes that Americans thought were the worst thing they could imagine. The author is a award-winning academic with a considerable body of work to her credit.
Series: Books Old and New (7 Articles, 10901 views)
Tuesday, May 5, 2015The Left Side of History: World War II and the Unfulfilled Promise of Communism in Eastern Europe, by Kristen Ghodsee A remarkable work of literary ethnogrphy that explains why many in Eastern Europeans are nostalgic for the Communist regimes that Americans thought were the worst thing they could imagine. The author is a award-winning academic with a considerable body of work to her credit.
Series: Books Old and New (7 Articles, 10901 views)
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Thursday, January 14, 2016
Obama'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.
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.
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Saturday, April 11, 2015
In Latin America, Will the US Ever Learn? How meaningful will the rapprochment between Cuba and the US, as embodied in the extraordinary Summit of the Americas that President Obama attended in Panama, be when it comes to our relations with the Bolivarian republic of Venezuela?
Saturday, April 11, 2015In Latin America, Will the US Ever Learn? How meaningful will the rapprochment between Cuba and the US, as embodied in the extraordinary Summit of the Americas that President Obama attended in Panama, be when it comes to our relations with the Bolivarian republic of Venezuela?
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Monday, June 29, 2015
The Real Reason Why They Don't Want Greece to Leave the Euro Only eighteen of the EU's member countries use the Euro. Some of those that do not are among the healthiest. Why then are Europe's leaders so fearful of the repercussions of an eventual exit of Greece from the common currency? This article suggests the answer.
Monday, June 29, 2015The Real Reason Why They Don't Want Greece to Leave the Euro Only eighteen of the EU's member countries use the Euro. Some of those that do not are among the healthiest. Why then are Europe's leaders so fearful of the repercussions of an eventual exit of Greece from the common currency? This article suggests the answer.
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Monday, June 23, 2014
Icing Ukraine's Chocolate King How America's premier news weekly presents the new Ukrainian president, brought to power after a US backed coup.
Series: Deconstructing the Media (3 Articles, 7943 views)
Monday, June 23, 2014Icing Ukraine's Chocolate King How America's premier news weekly presents the new Ukrainian president, brought to power after a US backed coup.
Series: Deconstructing the Media (3 Articles, 7943 views)
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Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Twelve French Killed: Satire And Secularism The background to today's killing, by armed Islamist gunmen, of twelve employees of a prominent French satirical weekly.
Wednesday, January 7, 2015Twelve French Killed: Satire And Secularism The background to today's killing, by armed Islamist gunmen, of twelve employees of a prominent French satirical weekly.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Ukraine's Broader Impact Worldwide repercussions of the crisis in Ukraine, few of which have yet to be recognized.
Wednesday, August 13, 2014Ukraine's Broader Impact Worldwide repercussions of the crisis in Ukraine, few of which have yet to be recognized.
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Friday, August 24, 2018
The (So Called) Russian Peace Threat, a Review by Deena Stryker Ron Ridenour's latest book does more than cry in the wilderness. It provides detailed documentation of what is in fact a gigantic threat to world peace by the United States, which claims ever louder that the threat emanates from Russia! A must read for all who hope we can still avoid World War III.
Friday, August 24, 2018The (So Called) Russian Peace Threat, a Review by Deena Stryker Ron Ridenour's latest book does more than cry in the wilderness. It provides detailed documentation of what is in fact a gigantic threat to world peace by the United States, which claims ever louder that the threat emanates from Russia! A must read for all who hope we can still avoid World War III.
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Saturday, November 23, 2013
Castro's Comments to me a Week after JFK's Assassination An encounter with Fidel Castro ten days after HFK was assassinated, his take on President Johnson and on Oswald's request for a Cuban transit visa.
Saturday, November 23, 2013Castro's Comments to me a Week after JFK's Assassination An encounter with Fidel Castro ten days after HFK was assassinated, his take on President Johnson and on Oswald's request for a Cuban transit visa.
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Monday, June 27, 2016
A "Traditionalist" Party? I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I think we need to take the creation of this party very seriously. This is not just another 'third party' that the Reps and Dems should fear will destroy their competition, but quite the contrary one which would create havoc.
Monday, June 27, 2016A "Traditionalist" Party? I'm not a conspiracy theorist, but I think we need to take the creation of this party very seriously. This is not just another 'third party' that the Reps and Dems should fear will destroy their competition, but quite the contrary one which would create havoc.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Trump/Putin Part II - Pick Your Poison In this second of three parts on America's 'Cornelian dilemma' the chances of the US starting World War III over the Baltic countries that border Russia are considered together with the reason why its leader will do anything to save it from another invasion.
Wednesday, July 27, 2016Trump/Putin Part II - Pick Your Poison In this second of three parts on America's 'Cornelian dilemma' the chances of the US starting World War III over the Baltic countries that border Russia are considered together with the reason why its leader will do anything to save it from another invasion.
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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.
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.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
Honing in on Putophobia The many ways in which the US mainstream media tries to shape public opinion regarding the President of Russia are illustrated in the Sunday Times that marked the fifteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attack: though the US has finally agreed to cooperate with Moscow in ridding the world of ISIS and its clones, Americans must not think their govenrment finally knows who its enemy is.
Tuesday, September 13, 2016Honing in on Putophobia The many ways in which the US mainstream media tries to shape public opinion regarding the President of Russia are illustrated in the Sunday Times that marked the fifteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attack: though the US has finally agreed to cooperate with Moscow in ridding the world of ISIS and its clones, Americans must not think their govenrment finally knows who its enemy is.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014
The Day I Thought Would Never Come Why Obama's recognition of Cuba is too little too late to save his presidency.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014The Day I Thought Would Never Come Why Obama's recognition of Cuba is too little too late to save his presidency.
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Thursday, March 27, 2014
Direct from Lakatia, Syria An American woman living in Syria reports from the front line.
Thursday, March 27, 2014Direct from Lakatia, Syria An American woman living in Syria reports from the front line.
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Sunday, April 12, 2015
Stupidest Stuff Ever President Obama is said to have rejected doing 'stupid stuff'. But his recent behavior belies that commitment.
Sunday, April 12, 2015Stupidest Stuff Ever President Obama is said to have rejected doing 'stupid stuff'. But his recent behavior belies that commitment.
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Friday, July 15, 2016
Why France? Why is France the main target in Europe of Islamic terrorists? France's involvement with Muslims goes back to the days of Bonaparte, and showed no signs of lessening during the 20th and even the 21st centuries. bringing many Muslims to settle there.
Friday, July 15, 2016Why France? Why is France the main target in Europe of Islamic terrorists? France's involvement with Muslims goes back to the days of Bonaparte, and showed no signs of lessening during the 20th and even the 21st centuries. bringing many Muslims to settle there.
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Tuesday, January 1, 2019
Pre-Eminent Russia Specialist Dots the I's America's pre-eminent Russia scholar demolishes the myths we are being fed by the Neocon establishment in pursuit of total world domination, which starts with the subjection of Russia. Indispensable!
Tuesday, January 1, 2019Pre-Eminent Russia Specialist Dots the I's America's pre-eminent Russia scholar demolishes the myths we are being fed by the Neocon establishment in pursuit of total world domination, which starts with the subjection of Russia. Indispensable!
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Sunday, September 11, 2016
Authoritarianism versus 20th Century Democracy As the US media continues its jihad against the Russian President, accusing him of being a dictator notwithstanding his popularity at home, this article considers how the US presidency compares to the system known as Russias's system of"managed decmocracy."
Sunday, September 11, 2016Authoritarianism versus 20th Century Democracy As the US media continues its jihad against the Russian President, accusing him of being a dictator notwithstanding his popularity at home, this article considers how the US presidency compares to the system known as Russias's system of"managed decmocracy."
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016
The 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.
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.
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Friday, April 11, 2014
Fascism; Which Flavor Do You Prefer? How the resurgence of Fascism is hastening a tipping point toward a new social paradigm.
Friday, April 11, 2014Fascism; Which Flavor Do You Prefer? How the resurgence of Fascism is hastening a tipping point toward a new social paradigm.
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Sunday, December 7, 2014
Great Games And The Islamic Renaissance Part of my series of book reviews, two works that cover everything that is currently relevant in international affairs.
Series: Books Old and New (7 Articles, 10901 views)
Sunday, December 7, 2014Great Games And The Islamic Renaissance Part of my series of book reviews, two works that cover everything that is currently relevant in international affairs.
Series: Books Old and New (7 Articles, 10901 views)
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Wednesday, August 17, 2016
ISIS as a Runaway System We must do everything possible to counter terrorism's flow of energy through the world system, but that will require first of all seeing hte world as a system, then elaborating responses that do not exacerbate the problem, as a series of wars have done.
Wednesday, August 17, 2016ISIS as a Runaway System We must do everything possible to counter terrorism's flow of energy through the world system, but that will require first of all seeing hte world as a system, then elaborating responses that do not exacerbate the problem, as a series of wars have done.
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Monday, May 5, 2014
Syria and Ukraine: A Two-Pronged Assault OEN's contact on the ground in Syria lets us know that the world has not forgotten that conflict.
Monday, May 5, 2014Syria and Ukraine: A Two-Pronged Assault OEN's contact on the ground in Syria lets us know that the world has not forgotten that conflict.
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Hollande in Washington and Fascism's Revenge The rise of both populist and corporate fascism in Europe and the U.S.
Wednesday, February 19, 2014Hollande in Washington and Fascism's Revenge The rise of both populist and corporate fascism in Europe and the U.S.
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Monday, April 21, 2014
Ukraine: Actually it's About the Poles The protagonists in Ukraine crisis are actually a three-some.
Monday, April 21, 2014Ukraine: Actually it's About the Poles The protagonists in Ukraine crisis are actually a three-some.
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Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Time to Revive the Domino Theory? What to make of the interlocking and criss-crossing events that are imploding a formerly predictable world? Is it a game of Go, dominoes, or something else?
Wednesday, April 8, 2015Time to Revive the Domino Theory? What to make of the interlocking and criss-crossing events that are imploding a formerly predictable world? Is it a game of Go, dominoes, or something else?
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Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Story to Watch: Dilma: Another Step in the Neo-Lberal Game Plan It would be a mistake to view the impeachment of Brazil's legally-elected president as anything other than a coup in disguise, as Dilma Roussef, in her impassioned defense, pointed out. Under her left-wing predecessor Brazil became a member of the BRICS.
Wednesday, August 31, 2016Story to Watch: Dilma: Another Step in the Neo-Lberal Game Plan It would be a mistake to view the impeachment of Brazil's legally-elected president as anything other than a coup in disguise, as Dilma Roussef, in her impassioned defense, pointed out. Under her left-wing predecessor Brazil became a member of the BRICS.
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Wednesday, November 9, 2016
The World Will Never be the Same Again Vladimir Putin has played a major role in the US presidential election of 2016, athough he did not seek it. Hopefully, the election of Donald Trump will quiet the efforts of Wasington's hawks to provoke a war with Russia, as so many have done throughout history.
Wednesday, November 9, 2016The World Will Never be the Same Again Vladimir Putin has played a major role in the US presidential election of 2016, athough he did not seek it. Hopefully, the election of Donald Trump will quiet the efforts of Wasington's hawks to provoke a war with Russia, as so many have done throughout history.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014
The Great White Lie The American people are not being told the real reasons why the war on terror will go on indefinitely.
Tuesday, September 30, 2014The Great White Lie The American people are not being told the real reasons why the war on terror will go on indefinitely.
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Friday, May 8, 2015
On V-E Day Europe's Future is on the Line As President Obama and other Western leaders boycott Russia's 70th anniversary elebration of its defeat - together with its allies - of Nazi Germany, Europe is at a crossroads, its Welfare State threatened by two outside forces: Wall St and immigration.
Friday, May 8, 2015On V-E Day Europe's Future is on the Line As President Obama and other Western leaders boycott Russia's 70th anniversary elebration of its defeat - together with its allies - of Nazi Germany, Europe is at a crossroads, its Welfare State threatened by two outside forces: Wall St and immigration.
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Friday, September 25, 2015
Francismania: It's Not About Religion Whether addressing the United Nations or conducting a musical mass in a cathedral Pope Francis at age seventy-eight easily outshines his most recent predecessors. Many see his visit as an 'act' intended to shore up a dyig institution, but the crowds signal otherwise.
Friday, September 25, 2015Francismania: It's Not About Religion Whether addressing the United Nations or conducting a musical mass in a cathedral Pope Francis at age seventy-eight easily outshines his most recent predecessors. Many see his visit as an 'act' intended to shore up a dyig institution, but the crowds signal otherwise.
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Monday, March 23, 2009
The American Dream is a Fairy Tale! 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"!
Monday, March 23, 2009The American Dream is a Fairy Tale! 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"!
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015
ISIS Sorts America's 'Allies' from Russia's 'Friends' As Putin-bashing continues and Europe flounders, those the Post snidely calls 'Russia's new kinds of friends' are deserting the Atlantic Alliance for the larger world of Eurasia, as Russia's military initiative in Syria forces the US to disown ISIS.
Tuesday, October 27, 2015ISIS Sorts America's 'Allies' from Russia's 'Friends' As Putin-bashing continues and Europe flounders, those the Post snidely calls 'Russia's new kinds of friends' are deserting the Atlantic Alliance for the larger world of Eurasia, as Russia's military initiative in Syria forces the US to disown ISIS.
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Monday, June 22, 2015
Is Europe Imploding or Relocating? On the last day of negotiations beetween Greece and the financial powers that be of the world, Deena Stryker looks back and forward to Europe's fatal dependency on the US which is only now beginning to be seriously question, as its millenials come to power.
Monday, June 22, 2015Is Europe Imploding or Relocating? On the last day of negotiations beetween Greece and the financial powers that be of the world, Deena Stryker looks back and forward to Europe's fatal dependency on the US which is only now beginning to be seriously question, as its millenials come to power.
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Sunday, February 28, 2016
Question: 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.
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.
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Saturday, April 22, 2017
What all the Hullaballoo is About Calls to impeach the new president will grow louder as various pundits make their case, filling the coffers of mainstream publishers. But it would be surprising if they led anywhere, as I show in three examples of the new normal. Hopefully, fascism 2017 is less about making war than about making money.
Saturday, April 22, 2017What all the Hullaballoo is About Calls to impeach the new president will grow louder as various pundits make their case, filling the coffers of mainstream publishers. But it would be surprising if they led anywhere, as I show in three examples of the new normal. Hopefully, fascism 2017 is less about making war than about making money.
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Friday, July 3, 2015
People to People in Volgograd Author Sharon Tennison, who has been visiting Russia (and the Soviet Union) for decades with others interested in people to people contacts, shared this account of a short stay in Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad. Famously beseiged during World War II, it now boasts a vibrant Rotary Club.
Friday, July 3, 2015People to People in Volgograd Author Sharon Tennison, who has been visiting Russia (and the Soviet Union) for decades with others interested in people to people contacts, shared this account of a short stay in Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad. Famously beseiged during World War II, it now boasts a vibrant Rotary Club.
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Saturday, July 2, 2016
Story To Watch: Nuland at it again - in London! The Lone Rangeress rides again! As a reward for turning the Ukraine upside down in 2014, State's Victoria Nuland has been sent on an even greater mission: to reverse the will of the British people to no longer be the US Trojan Horse in the European Union.
Saturday, July 2, 2016Story To Watch: Nuland at it again - in London! The Lone Rangeress rides again! As a reward for turning the Ukraine upside down in 2014, State's Victoria Nuland has been sent on an even greater mission: to reverse the will of the British people to no longer be the US Trojan Horse in the European Union.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
"Imagine Living in a Socialist USA": A Real Roadmap The first in a series of book review that will include both new and old - sometimes very old - books.
Series: Books Old and New (7 Articles, 10901 views)
Wednesday, April 16, 2014"Imagine Living in a Socialist USA": A Real Roadmap The first in a series of book review that will include both new and old - sometimes very old - books.
Series: Books Old and New (7 Articles, 10901 views)
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
The National Review Calls Sanders a Nazi As Ukraine's Right Sektor organizes a massive demonstration in the Maidan to demand that the US-chosen government resign for being too willing to make peace with the pro-Russian population in the East, in a dangerous game, an Ameican journalist, writing in a well-known review, calls Bernie Sanders a 'national socialist'.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015The National Review Calls Sanders a Nazi As Ukraine's Right Sektor organizes a massive demonstration in the Maidan to demand that the US-chosen government resign for being too willing to make peace with the pro-Russian population in the East, in a dangerous game, an Ameican journalist, writing in a well-known review, calls Bernie Sanders a 'national socialist'.
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Re the Olympics: "Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts" What impact does Russia's English (and Arabic and Spanish) television channel have on America's future?
Wednesday, February 12, 2014Re the Olympics: "Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts" What impact does Russia's English (and Arabic and Spanish) television channel have on America's future?
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Putin in Budapest What was Putin really doing in Budapest? And how to believe NYT reporting?
Wednesday, February 18, 2015Putin in Budapest What was Putin really doing in Budapest? And how to believe NYT reporting?
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Friday, January 23, 2015
There were Once Two Eagles and a Bear Two ageing American international experts describe Putin's Russia and the new Ukraine.
Friday, January 23, 2015There were Once Two Eagles and a Bear Two ageing American international experts describe Putin's Russia and the new Ukraine.
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Wednesday, May 25, 2016
US 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.
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.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Islamic Resistance to Imperialism: A Book Review The latest in Eric Walberg's grand panorama of the West's major political events of the past century could not come at a better time: the differences between the various actors of the Arab Spring are here clarified at a time when the Middle East once again takes center stage with the Iran Nuclear Agreement.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015Islamic Resistance to Imperialism: A Book Review The latest in Eric Walberg's grand panorama of the West's major political events of the past century could not come at a better time: the differences between the various actors of the Arab Spring are here clarified at a time when the Middle East once again takes center stage with the Iran Nuclear Agreement.
Series: Books Old and New (7 Articles, 10901 views)
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Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Story to Watch: France's Hesitation Waltz Only a strong , united Europe, certain of its role, can survive the current crisis of identity created by an enormous influx of refugees, combined with US targetting Russia with accusations of nefarious plans vis a vis the entire world, Europe first.
Tuesday, October 11, 2016Story to Watch: France's Hesitation Waltz Only a strong , united Europe, certain of its role, can survive the current crisis of identity created by an enormous influx of refugees, combined with US targetting Russia with accusations of nefarious plans vis a vis the entire world, Europe first.
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Monday, September 8, 2014
NATO Versus The Rest What NATO expansion is really about and what that portends for the future of Europe and the United States.
Monday, September 8, 2014NATO Versus The Rest What NATO expansion is really about and what that portends for the future of Europe and the United States.
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Saturday, November 29, 2014
Mubarak/Wilson, Catalonia/Edinburgh/Ukraine, Same Combat What do the trials of Hosni Mubarak and Darren Wilson have in common? And what do their trials have in common with recent popular referenda?
Saturday, November 29, 2014Mubarak/Wilson, Catalonia/Edinburgh/Ukraine, Same Combat What do the trials of Hosni Mubarak and Darren Wilson have in common? And what do their trials have in common with recent popular referenda?
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Friday, July 22, 2016
Trump/Putin Part I American progressives are caught beetween a rock and a hard place, reluctant to vote either for Trump or Clinton, and fearing that a vote for Jill Stein will spoil the race between the two main contestants. Even those aware that Trump would be unlikely to attack Russia, while Clinton would be, doesn't help them. Perhaps we need to take a closer look at what might unite a neo-fascist with a leader with a democrasocialist etho
Friday, July 22, 2016Trump/Putin Part I American progressives are caught beetween a rock and a hard place, reluctant to vote either for Trump or Clinton, and fearing that a vote for Jill Stein will spoil the race between the two main contestants. Even those aware that Trump would be unlikely to attack Russia, while Clinton would be, doesn't help them. Perhaps we need to take a closer look at what might unite a neo-fascist with a leader with a democrasocialist etho
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Friday, August 14, 2015
Will Che's New Man Survive Uncle Sam? What does the re-establishment of Cuban-American relations mean in the broader context of a world facing an unprecedented and unforeseen climate challenge, as the developing world strives to emulate the life-style created by the United States after WWII?
Friday, August 14, 2015Will Che's New Man Survive Uncle Sam? What does the re-establishment of Cuban-American relations mean in the broader context of a world facing an unprecedented and unforeseen climate challenge, as the developing world strives to emulate the life-style created by the United States after WWII?
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Saturday, March 29, 2014
Maidan: Occupy on Steroids Another Maidan revealed as Right Sector threathens the govenrment it put in power.
Saturday, March 29, 2014Maidan: Occupy on Steroids Another Maidan revealed as Right Sector threathens the govenrment it put in power.
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Thursday, August 24, 2017
'Free' Speech, What does free speech mean according to the document that is intended to guide the world, that is, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, instigated by Eleanor Roosevelt during the founding years of that organization, but not entirely respected by the US?
Thursday, August 24, 2017'Free' Speech, What does free speech mean according to the document that is intended to guide the world, that is, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, instigated by Eleanor Roosevelt during the founding years of that organization, but not entirely respected by the US?
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Saturday, January 2, 2016
Merkel, 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?
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?
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Wednesday, June 10, 2015
Putin in Italy The American representative to the HOly See hopes that Pope Francis will chastize Vladimir Putin for the aggressions committed in Ukraine by its CIA-installed coup government, but that is not likely to happen as the Pope and Putin see eye to eye on crucial subjects.
Wednesday, June 10, 2015Putin in Italy The American representative to the HOly See hopes that Pope Francis will chastize Vladimir Putin for the aggressions committed in Ukraine by its CIA-installed coup government, but that is not likely to happen as the Pope and Putin see eye to eye on crucial subjects.
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Saturday, October 3, 2015
When Did 'Regime Change' Replace 'Free and Fair Elections'? By what manipulation of languge did the US government acquire the right to overthrow foreign governments by force, after our own founding documents that legitimize popular uprisings against unjust government were swept under the rug following our own civil war?
Saturday, October 3, 2015When Did 'Regime Change' Replace 'Free and Fair Elections'? By what manipulation of languge did the US government acquire the right to overthrow foreign governments by force, after our own founding documents that legitimize popular uprisings against unjust government were swept under the rug following our own civil war?
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Monday, June 5, 2017
Story to Follow: Europe Free at Last, via Versailles and St Petersburg When ancient history and a fast-moving present manage to join up in front of the tv cameras, the result is a record of a major turning point.
Monday, June 5, 2017Story to Follow: Europe Free at Last, via Versailles and St Petersburg When ancient history and a fast-moving present manage to join up in front of the tv cameras, the result is a record of a major turning point.
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Tuesday, June 13, 2017
A Nation of Laws? Watergate was a kindergarten game compared to the layrinthe that is cosing in on the President after barely four months in office. The players themselves often are not certain what the latest version is, but what it most resembles is a Greek labyrinth.
Tuesday, June 13, 2017A Nation of Laws? Watergate was a kindergarten game compared to the layrinthe that is cosing in on the President after barely four months in office. The players themselves often are not certain what the latest version is, but what it most resembles is a Greek labyrinth.
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Tuesday, August 29, 2017
Sebastian Gorka's Hungarian Ties and a Growing EU Split Sebastian Gorka claims he resigned from the White House, while internal communications suggest he was fired. This article provides little-known information on the country from which his parents fled, to which he returned under disquieting circumstances.
Tuesday, August 29, 2017Sebastian Gorka's Hungarian Ties and a Growing EU Split Sebastian Gorka claims he resigned from the White House, while internal communications suggest he was fired. This article provides little-known information on the country from which his parents fled, to which he returned under disquieting circumstances.
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Monday, April 28, 2014
It's No Longer About Al Qaeda A French Middle East expert, a former diplomat and academic, tells us we should stop worrying about Al Qaeda and focus on its successor.
Monday, April 28, 2014It's No Longer About Al Qaeda A French Middle East expert, a former diplomat and academic, tells us we should stop worrying about Al Qaeda and focus on its successor.
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Sunday, July 10, 2016
Killings Plus Political Conventions Equal Chaos Americans may soon be reminded that the long hot summers of the sixties and seventies failed to create a revolutionary situation that would have put their country on a par with the rest of the developed world, offering health care and education to all.
Sunday, July 10, 2016Killings Plus Political Conventions Equal Chaos Americans may soon be reminded that the long hot summers of the sixties and seventies failed to create a revolutionary situation that would have put their country on a par with the rest of the developed world, offering health care and education to all.
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Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Revolutionary Optimism, Western Nihilism, by Andre Vltchek, A Review Notes from the field of a dedicated witness to our time of sturm und drang. From one end of the globe to the other, Andre Vltchek has dedicated his life to documenting the ravages of empire -- as well as the hope that springs eternal when people take their futures into their own hands.
Wednesday, August 22, 2018Revolutionary Optimism, Western Nihilism, by Andre Vltchek, A Review Notes from the field of a dedicated witness to our time of sturm und drang. From one end of the globe to the other, Andre Vltchek has dedicated his life to documenting the ravages of empire -- as well as the hope that springs eternal when people take their futures into their own hands.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Obama's Choice Disarray among America's rulers as to how to meet the challenge posed by ISIS is embarrasing. While the Russian President goes cooly about doing what he knows needs to be done, our congressppeople cannot even think about ISIS correctly, much less defeat it.
Tuesday, November 17, 2015Obama's Choice Disarray among America's rulers as to how to meet the challenge posed by ISIS is embarrasing. While the Russian President goes cooly about doing what he knows needs to be done, our congressppeople cannot even think about ISIS correctly, much less defeat it.
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014
A Christmas Cauldron An expanding world 'umma' that espouses a mulititude of religions but shares a common conception of the good life, that is not based on the pursuit of ever more 'stuff'.
Wednesday, December 24, 2014A Christmas Cauldron An expanding world 'umma' that espouses a mulititude of religions but shares a common conception of the good life, that is not based on the pursuit of ever more 'stuff'.
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Saturday, January 30, 2016
The 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 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.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016
Obama: Do What I Say, Not What I Do President Obama's parting speech to the UN was a masterpiece of deceit. The US President showed he's not only a good comedian who can skewer others at a press dinner, but a talented carpet-bagger. Meanwhile, no way to find out the dates of other leaders' speeches.
Wednesday, September 21, 2016Obama: Do What I Say, Not What I Do President Obama's parting speech to the UN was a masterpiece of deceit. The US President showed he's not only a good comedian who can skewer others at a press dinner, but a talented carpet-bagger. Meanwhile, no way to find out the dates of other leaders' speeches.
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014
The New Fascism: Coopting the Nationalist Meme for Globalist Ends Why Fascism is making a comeback and how it differs from its previous incarnation.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014The New Fascism: Coopting the Nationalist Meme for Globalist Ends Why Fascism is making a comeback and how it differs from its previous incarnation.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Is Chris Matthews Losing It? Tonight's edition of Hardball would make you wonder whether Chris Matthews has been mesmerized by the Donald, his enthusiasm for the Republican front runner more akin to that of the kids Trump takes for rides on his helicopter than that of a serious journalist.
Tuesday, August 18, 2015Is Chris Matthews Losing It? Tonight's edition of Hardball would make you wonder whether Chris Matthews has been mesmerized by the Donald, his enthusiasm for the Republican front runner more akin to that of the kids Trump takes for rides on his helicopter than that of a serious journalist.
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Friday, July 1, 2016
It's Austria Again! It's a dizzying time for Europe watchers, as twenty-first century events take us relentlessly back to the past and the scourge of fascism that overran Europe from 1939 to 1945, ending only thanks to (reluctant) cooperation by the US with the Soviet Union.
Friday, July 1, 2016It's Austria Again! It's a dizzying time for Europe watchers, as twenty-first century events take us relentlessly back to the past and the scourge of fascism that overran Europe from 1939 to 1945, ending only thanks to (reluctant) cooperation by the US with the Soviet Union.
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Thursday, April 23, 2015
Contrasting Attitudes Toward 'The Other' Attitudes toward otherness form the basis of every religion and every political system. In the twenty-first century, their evolution has been unevenly distributed across the globe, and not only in terms of governments, but also among ordinary citizens.
Thursday, April 23, 2015Contrasting Attitudes Toward 'The Other' Attitudes toward otherness form the basis of every religion and every political system. In the twenty-first century, their evolution has been unevenly distributed across the globe, and not only in terms of governments, but also among ordinary citizens.
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Sunday, June 21, 2015
Hear the Real World in St. Petersburg To come to a full realization of how much information Americans are not getting, visit RT's website where you will learn what the rest of the world was doing this week while Americans were informed only about what their government allows them to know.
Sunday, June 21, 2015Hear the Real World in St. Petersburg To come to a full realization of how much information Americans are not getting, visit RT's website where you will learn what the rest of the world was doing this week while Americans were informed only about what their government allows them to know.
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Sunday, January 25, 2015
Will Greek Syriza Win Move Europe Left? Will the Greek election revigorate the European left?
Sunday, January 25, 2015Will Greek Syriza Win Move Europe Left? Will the Greek election revigorate the European left?
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Friday, August 19, 2016
Story to Watch: Manafort to Moscow? In politicis, and even more so in international affairs, things are not always as they appear. While the talk box focuses on Manafort's skills as a campaign organizer that were 'layered over' by new hires, he may be on his way to Moscow to deliver a Trump message.
Friday, August 19, 2016Story to Watch: Manafort to Moscow? In politicis, and even more so in international affairs, things are not always as they appear. While the talk box focuses on Manafort's skills as a campaign organizer that were 'layered over' by new hires, he may be on his way to Moscow to deliver a Trump message.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Trying to Close the Stable Door The process of cleansing the new Ukraine govenment begins.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014Trying to Close the Stable Door The process of cleansing the new Ukraine govenment begins.
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Sunday, June 26, 2016
The Beginning of the End for the EU As observers see echoes of 1938 in the rise of European populism, the shock of Britain's abandonment of the EU - to which she had never been fully committed - is rocking stock markets across the world. But when it comes to Europe, history has always had the last word.
Sunday, June 26, 2016The Beginning of the End for the EU As observers see echoes of 1938 in the rise of European populism, the shock of Britain's abandonment of the EU - to which she had never been fully committed - is rocking stock markets across the world. But when it comes to Europe, history has always had the last word.
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Saturday, February 22, 2014
A Time of Ignorance Why Islam is fastest growing religion in the world - even though atheism is growing too.
Saturday, February 22, 2014A Time of Ignorance Why Islam is fastest growing religion in the world - even though atheism is growing too.
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Thursday, March 19, 2015
Space Anniversaries and Lost Chances Efforts to colonize space multiply, but human interactions between competing systems of government that were pioneered by the first space walkers, a Russian and an American, are now in the dustbin.
Thursday, March 19, 2015Space Anniversaries and Lost Chances Efforts to colonize space multiply, but human interactions between competing systems of government that were pioneered by the first space walkers, a Russian and an American, are now in the dustbin.
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Monday, April 21, 2014
Individualisim is the Opium of the Masses Why the US doesn't have a mass progressive party.
Monday, April 21, 2014Individualisim is the Opium of the Masses Why the US doesn't have a mass progressive party.
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015
Requiem 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.
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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Monday, April 27, 2015
Hillarygate is About 'Capitalism with a Human Face' As long as the few oppose the many, the former will seek legal justification for fascist methods as weapons of last resort, while popular fascist parties provide organization to those who reject otherness on racial, religious or national grounds.
Monday, April 27, 2015Hillarygate is About 'Capitalism with a Human Face' As long as the few oppose the many, the former will seek legal justification for fascist methods as weapons of last resort, while popular fascist parties provide organization to those who reject otherness on racial, religious or national grounds.
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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Sochi: US vs Russia As Russia prepares to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, demonstrates in the Ukraine and Dagestani terrorists are probably related.
Wednesday, January 22, 2014Sochi: US vs Russia As Russia prepares to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, demonstrates in the Ukraine and Dagestani terrorists are probably related.
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Monday, May 25, 2015
Ia ISIS Post-Modernism's Latest Avatar? The astonishing 'success' of a self-directed modern version of the French Foreign Legion is not mainly about colonial predations, but about restoring a version of morality that held sway fourteen centuries ago, but is also known today as post-modernism.
Monday, May 25, 2015Ia ISIS Post-Modernism's Latest Avatar? The astonishing 'success' of a self-directed modern version of the French Foreign Legion is not mainly about colonial predations, but about restoring a version of morality that held sway fourteen centuries ago, but is also known today as post-modernism.
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Saturday, January 17, 2009
Who's Goliath Now? The Israelis have forgotten one of their founding legends, the story of David and Goliath.
Saturday, January 17, 2009Who's Goliath Now? The Israelis have forgotten one of their founding legends, the story of David and Goliath.
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Friday, October 2, 2015
Dotting I's and Crossing T's at the Elysee Palace What lies beneath today's meeting between France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine at the Elysee Palace, on the second day after Russia began bombing ISIL targets in Syria? Washington may wish Syria becomes a Russian quagmire but something else is more likely to happen.
Friday, October 2, 2015Dotting I's and Crossing T's at the Elysee Palace What lies beneath today's meeting between France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine at the Elysee Palace, on the second day after Russia began bombing ISIL targets in Syria? Washington may wish Syria becomes a Russian quagmire but something else is more likely to happen.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Trump/Putin Part IV It will be impossible for the US to make up for centuries of ideological illiteracy in time to sway the presidential election away from the two main candidates. That illiteracy allows the American political system to paint the Russian president as a danger instead of a vital partner in the fight against ISIS.
Wednesday, August 10, 2016Trump/Putin Part IV It will be impossible for the US to make up for centuries of ideological illiteracy in time to sway the presidential election away from the two main candidates. That illiteracy allows the American political system to paint the Russian president as a danger instead of a vital partner in the fight against ISIS.
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Thursday, August 13, 2015
Scandinavia Joins the Crowd The immigrant crisis is trasnforming the European Union in ways unimaginable only a few short years ago, giving rise to ever more violent far-right parties even in what have been seen as its most enlightened populations, who fail to see the arithmetic.
Thursday, August 13, 2015Scandinavia Joins the Crowd The immigrant crisis is trasnforming the European Union in ways unimaginable only a few short years ago, giving rise to ever more violent far-right parties even in what have been seen as its most enlightened populations, who fail to see the arithmetic.
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Saturday, January 11, 2014
US: Deux Ex Machina or Sorcerer's Apprentice? Disputing Obama's claims to another American century.
Saturday, January 11, 2014US: Deux Ex Machina or Sorcerer's Apprentice? Disputing Obama's claims to another American century.
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Thursday, February 5, 2015
Charlie's Role in Merkel/Hollande Ukraine Peace Plan Prance's President has two news plans, one about Islam, the other about Ukraine. They are linked, as this article shows.
Thursday, February 5, 2015Charlie's Role in Merkel/Hollande Ukraine Peace Plan Prance's President has two news plans, one about Islam, the other about Ukraine. They are linked, as this article shows.
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Friday, September 18, 2015
Europe's Tragi-comic Destiny: The Little Continent that Couldn't - Part I Europe is suddenly plunged into chaos, not in the way the US had wanted it to fear, but in a way which it should have seen coming, but didn't. In the next part of this article I will look at the decades-old rise of Europe's far right parties, and at the efrforts that have gone into making the European Union a reality.
Friday, September 18, 2015Europe's Tragi-comic Destiny: The Little Continent that Couldn't - Part I Europe is suddenly plunged into chaos, not in the way the US had wanted it to fear, but in a way which it should have seen coming, but didn't. In the next part of this article I will look at the decades-old rise of Europe's far right parties, and at the efrforts that have gone into making the European Union a reality.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Time Mag Eases Americans Into Reality The ultra-conservative magazine Time ha published an article by a geo-political analyst that describes the end of 'the American century' first identified by its founder.
Tuesday, December 30, 2014Time Mag Eases Americans Into Reality The ultra-conservative magazine Time ha published an article by a geo-political analyst that describes the end of 'the American century' first identified by its founder.
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Saturday, July 11, 2015
Tunnel Vision What goes on in distant parts of the world while Americans think they are being informed.
Saturday, July 11, 2015Tunnel Vision What goes on in distant parts of the world while Americans think they are being informed.
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Sunday, November 13, 2016
An American Phase Transition Anti-Trump demonstrators can be seen in systemic terms, but this does not change the fact that they are deluded: Hillary Clinton presents as much of a threat of fascism as does Trump - but on a different and potentially much more disastrous foreign policy level.
Sunday, November 13, 2016An American Phase Transition Anti-Trump demonstrators can be seen in systemic terms, but this does not change the fact that they are deluded: Hillary Clinton presents as much of a threat of fascism as does Trump - but on a different and potentially much more disastrous foreign policy level.
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Sunday, July 12, 2015
Neo-Nazis Demand Kiev Interior Minister Resign It was only a matter of time before the Neo-Nazi militias that provided the muscle for the overthrow of the democratically-elected president of Ukraine in 2014 would apply their methods to officials they don't like in the new DC and EU-backed Ukraine.
Sunday, July 12, 2015Neo-Nazis Demand Kiev Interior Minister Resign It was only a matter of time before the Neo-Nazi militias that provided the muscle for the overthrow of the democratically-elected president of Ukraine in 2014 would apply their methods to officials they don't like in the new DC and EU-backed Ukraine.
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Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Dems Doing a McGovern on Pete Buttigieg In a thirty-five minute foreign policy speech the mayor of a middle American city showed a mastery of both grass roots aspirations and almost rock solid understanding of the world American has insisted on leading straight down a rabbit hole.
Wednesday, June 12, 2019Dems Doing a McGovern on Pete Buttigieg In a thirty-five minute foreign policy speech the mayor of a middle American city showed a mastery of both grass roots aspirations and almost rock solid understanding of the world American has insisted on leading straight down a rabbit hole.
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
The Arithmetic of Islamization Few things in recent history have been so unexpected yet so inevitable as the Islamization of Europe. Hardly a day goes by that great events or small details fail to signal the inevitability of that transformation. Unfortuantely, they are rarely signalled.
Wednesday, June 22, 2016The Arithmetic of Islamization Few things in recent history have been so unexpected yet so inevitable as the Islamization of Europe. Hardly a day goes by that great events or small details fail to signal the inevitability of that transformation. Unfortuantely, they are rarely signalled.
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Monday, August 18, 2014
Fareed's Screed Why Fareed Zakaria is not to be trusted, however authoritative he appears.
Monday, August 18, 2014Fareed's Screed Why Fareed Zakaria is not to be trusted, however authoritative he appears.
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Monday, June 29, 2015
Protest is Broken An interview with Micah White, one of the original organizers of Occupy Wall Street, by the Brazilian Folha de Sao Paolo. At a time when so many across the world are searching for ways short of violence to effectuate change, this interview is valuable.
Monday, June 29, 2015Protest is Broken An interview with Micah White, one of the original organizers of Occupy Wall Street, by the Brazilian Folha de Sao Paolo. At a time when so many across the world are searching for ways short of violence to effectuate change, this interview is valuable.
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Sunday, November 16, 2014
A Digression on the Cinema and Politics How films sometimes eerily reflect the news - past and present.
Sunday, November 16, 2014A Digression on the Cinema and Politics How films sometimes eerily reflect the news - past and present.
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Wednesday, July 8, 2015
Today's Big Event: EU's Parliament did What? The European Parliament, to which each European Union countrey elects delegates according to party lists, has been considered as merely a rubber stamp body, with the real power residing in Brussels, with its complex bureaucracy. The Greek crisis may be changing that.
Wednesday, July 8, 2015Today's Big Event: EU's Parliament did What? The European Parliament, to which each European Union countrey elects delegates according to party lists, has been considered as merely a rubber stamp body, with the real power residing in Brussels, with its complex bureaucracy. The Greek crisis may be changing that.
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Sunday, June 28, 2015
Europe on the Skids Since the end of World War II, Europe has never known such turmoil as we are witnessing today. From the Greek debt crisis to terrorism, the EU welfare state is being rocked to its foundations, its finances stretched to their limit as left and right vie once again for control.
Sunday, June 28, 2015Europe on the Skids Since the end of World War II, Europe has never known such turmoil as we are witnessing today. From the Greek debt crisis to terrorism, the EU welfare state is being rocked to its foundations, its finances stretched to their limit as left and right vie once again for control.
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Sunday, February 2, 2014
Munich II? "Munich" has been a synonym for capitulation since 1939.
Sunday, February 2, 2014Munich II? "Munich" has been a synonym for capitulation since 1939.
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Saturday, July 16, 2016
US-NATO-Russia Whilet he mmainstream media pretends that "Americans are not interested in foreign affairs",It's increasingly important for us to be aware of what their government is doing beyond its borders, because increasingly, those actions influence the homefront.
Saturday, July 16, 2016US-NATO-Russia Whilet he mmainstream media pretends that "Americans are not interested in foreign affairs",It's increasingly important for us to be aware of what their government is doing beyond its borders, because increasingly, those actions influence the homefront.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Sanders 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.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015Sanders 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.
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Monday, May 16, 2016
Donald 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.
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.
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Friday, June 17, 2016
State Department Goes Rogue Whoever heard of civil servants getting together to lay out what they believe correct government policy to be? There's a veritable war on whistleblowers, but now there seems to be a new category of protest by government employees who believe policy is wrong.
Friday, June 17, 2016State Department Goes Rogue Whoever heard of civil servants getting together to lay out what they believe correct government policy to be? There's a veritable war on whistleblowers, but now there seems to be a new category of protest by government employees who believe policy is wrong.
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Thursday, September 1, 2016
Pick Your Fascism There's been a steady meme comparing Donald Trump to Adolph Hitler, but until last night, the Republican candidate had carefully refrained from giving it visual credence, preferring instead to come across as a bombastic buffoon. He blew that cover last night.
Thursday, September 1, 2016Pick Your Fascism There's been a steady meme comparing Donald Trump to Adolph Hitler, but until last night, the Republican candidate had carefully refrained from giving it visual credence, preferring instead to come across as a bombastic buffoon. He blew that cover last night.
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014
D-Day 2014: Comings and Goings on the Eurasian Continent As at the U.S. and its World War II allies, including Russia (formerly the Soviet Union) celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landing amidst war in Ukraine, a new geo-political configuration is in the making.
Wednesday, June 4, 2014D-Day 2014: Comings and Goings on the Eurasian Continent As at the U.S. and its World War II allies, including Russia (formerly the Soviet Union) celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landing amidst war in Ukraine, a new geo-political configuration is in the making.
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Friday, July 17, 2015
Soros: Right Analysis, Wrong Strategy Not even a billonnaire can be good at everything, and George Soros is no exception. In his latest contribution to the ever more rightward leaning New York Review of Books, he claims that the US can prevent World War III by delinking China and Russia.
Friday, July 17, 2015Soros: Right Analysis, Wrong Strategy Not even a billonnaire can be good at everything, and George Soros is no exception. In his latest contribution to the ever more rightward leaning New York Review of Books, he claims that the US can prevent World War III by delinking China and Russia.
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Saturday, September 12, 2015
Story to Watch: Bernie Sanders' Twin Wins in Britain The larger-than-expected win of a life-long socialist to head the British Labor Party has profound implictions: first of all for a Europe reeling from massive immigration, as it joins powerful left-wing parties in Italy, Spain and Greece but also for Bernie Sanders supporters in the US.
Saturday, September 12, 2015Story to Watch: Bernie Sanders' Twin Wins in Britain The larger-than-expected win of a life-long socialist to head the British Labor Party has profound implictions: first of all for a Europe reeling from massive immigration, as it joins powerful left-wing parties in Italy, Spain and Greece but also for Bernie Sanders supporters in the US.
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Monday, January 12, 2015
How French Victims Became Jewish Martyrs The can of worms opened in Paris. It's not a straightforward situation.
Monday, January 12, 2015How French Victims Became Jewish Martyrs The can of worms opened in Paris. It's not a straightforward situation.
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Monday, December 14, 2015
In Defense of Strong Leaders Westerners have been taught since kindergarten that democracy means choosing their own leaders at the ballot box. By the time we're adults we wouldn't think of challenging that definition, never mind whether is works or not. In the centuries since The Enlightenment, it's become clear that governance needs new paradigms.
Monday, December 14, 2015In Defense of Strong Leaders Westerners have been taught since kindergarten that democracy means choosing their own leaders at the ballot box. By the time we're adults we wouldn't think of challenging that definition, never mind whether is works or not. In the centuries since The Enlightenment, it's become clear that governance needs new paradigms.
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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Reading Putin's Tea Leaves A blow-by-blow review of Putin's year-end speech to Russia's elite and what its absence from the MSM means for Americans.
Thursday, December 19, 2013Reading Putin's Tea Leaves A blow-by-blow review of Putin's year-end speech to Russia's elite and what its absence from the MSM means for Americans.
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Thursday, July 7, 2016
Two Peas in a Pod and Two Pied Pipers America specializes in rivetting congressional hearings, but none has been as meaningful as that of FBI Director James Comey. Exchanges over Hillary Cliton's emails echoed another congressional deposition by Bill Clinton: "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is.
Thursday, July 7, 2016Two Peas in a Pod and Two Pied Pipers America specializes in rivetting congressional hearings, but none has been as meaningful as that of FBI Director James Comey. Exchanges over Hillary Cliton's emails echoed another congressional deposition by Bill Clinton: "It depends on what the meaning of 'is' is.
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Sunday, September 20, 2015
The Little Continent that Couldn't - Part II The inability of Europe's leaders, both West and East, to deal with the infux of Muslim immigrants from Africa and the Middle East is due in part to the existence of far-right politicl parties who now draw strength from neo-fascist militias in Ukraine.
Sunday, September 20, 2015The Little Continent that Couldn't - Part II The inability of Europe's leaders, both West and East, to deal with the infux of Muslim immigrants from Africa and the Middle East is due in part to the existence of far-right politicl parties who now draw strength from neo-fascist militias in Ukraine.
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Thursday, June 18, 2015
Stop What You're Doing, Watch Boyko-Cohen Interview No other tv personality has the knowledge and standing to spar with America's foremost expert on Russia, Princeton Professor Stephen Cohen, of RTs Oxana Boyko. Whatching them is almost like being a fly on the wall during international negotiations - whose real participants should only be so earnest!
Thursday, June 18, 2015Stop What You're Doing, Watch Boyko-Cohen Interview No other tv personality has the knowledge and standing to spar with America's foremost expert on Russia, Princeton Professor Stephen Cohen, of RTs Oxana Boyko. Whatching them is almost like being a fly on the wall during international negotiations - whose real participants should only be so earnest!
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Sunday, November 9, 2014
From Barcelona to Berlin to Donetsk to Damascus Today's news viewed by Sunday talking heads - and our contact in Syria.
Sunday, November 9, 2014From Barcelona to Berlin to Donetsk to Damascus Today's news viewed by Sunday talking heads - and our contact in Syria.
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Monday, October 13, 2014
From Berlin to Kurdistan and Ebola How quickly the media forgets history-making events - and what it makes of current history.
Monday, October 13, 2014From Berlin to Kurdistan and Ebola How quickly the media forgets history-making events - and what it makes of current history.
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Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Confusion at the Top: Stay Tuned The international scene is getting more complicated by the hour. Here are just a few events whose outcomes we will have to follow in the coming days and weeks, as Europe begins to cut its umbilical cord with the US, recognizing that Russia's policies are more advantageous.
Wednesday, October 7, 2015Confusion at the Top: Stay Tuned The international scene is getting more complicated by the hour. Here are just a few events whose outcomes we will have to follow in the coming days and weeks, as Europe begins to cut its umbilical cord with the US, recognizing that Russia's policies are more advantageous.
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Saturday, January 23, 2016
Our 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, 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.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015
The West's Latest Putin Snub - and Dirty Trick Auschwitz and Standard and Poor - the latest weapons in the anti-Putin war.
Tuesday, January 27, 2015The West's Latest Putin Snub - and Dirty Trick Auschwitz and Standard and Poor - the latest weapons in the anti-Putin war.
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Thursday, September 18, 2014
A Close-Up Picture Changing Some signs that something fundamental is happening to 'the greatest nation the world has ever known' are obvious. Others are more subtle.
Thursday, September 18, 2014A Close-Up Picture Changing Some signs that something fundamental is happening to 'the greatest nation the world has ever known' are obvious. Others are more subtle.
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Saturday, May 7, 2016
Stories 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.
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.
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Monday, May 12, 2014
Has Democracy Come Full Circle! Reactions to yesterday's referendum in Ukraine sends democracy back to pre-Athenian times.
Monday, May 12, 2014Has Democracy Come Full Circle! Reactions to yesterday's referendum in Ukraine sends democracy back to pre-Athenian times.
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Thursday, April 3, 2014
Otherness and Sovereignty A reflection on internal authority and its relation to Otherness and sovereignty in the post-Occupy era.
Thursday, April 3, 2014Otherness and Sovereignty A reflection on internal authority and its relation to Otherness and sovereignty in the post-Occupy era.
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Friday, April 20, 2018
Standing on our Heads Has the US lost sight of its fundamental principles, when it invests most of its energy in an investigation as to whether the president is defying the law by seeking peaceful relations with the other major nuclear power?
Friday, April 20, 2018Standing on our Heads Has the US lost sight of its fundamental principles, when it invests most of its energy in an investigation as to whether the president is defying the law by seeking peaceful relations with the other major nuclear power?
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Sunday, November 23, 2014
Netanyahu Has Lost It! As Americans prepare to sit down to family turkey dinners in celebration of all that we may have to be thankful for, the Prime MInister of Israel announces our next loss: that of chief ally of the 'only democratic country in the Middle East - if we are true to our constitution.
Sunday, November 23, 2014Netanyahu Has Lost It! As Americans prepare to sit down to family turkey dinners in celebration of all that we may have to be thankful for, the Prime MInister of Israel announces our next loss: that of chief ally of the 'only democratic country in the Middle East - if we are true to our constitution.
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Friday, January 9, 2015
Charlie Hebdo versus Drones on Wedding Parties The West is up in arms over the killings of French cartoonists and hostages, but there is confusion over what rights free speech was intended to protect.
Friday, January 9, 2015Charlie Hebdo versus Drones on Wedding Parties The West is up in arms over the killings of French cartoonists and hostages, but there is confusion over what rights free speech was intended to protect.
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Of Kids and Drones and Culture Wars What do French kids and independent drones have to do with 'The Clash of Civilizations'?
Tuesday, December 2, 2014Of Kids and Drones and Culture Wars What do French kids and independent drones have to do with 'The Clash of Civilizations'?
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Friday, March 28, 2014
Obama in Chocolate Factory Earning His Keep The Old Obama on the Old Continent telling Old Stories
Friday, March 28, 2014Obama in Chocolate Factory Earning His Keep The Old Obama on the Old Continent telling Old Stories
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution A book review in the series 'Books Old and New', this work was published in 2009, making it a betwixt and between selection that is highly relevant to the Middle East quagmire.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution A book review in the series 'Books Old and New', this work was published in 2009, making it a betwixt and between selection that is highly relevant to the Middle East quagmire.
Series: Books Old and New (7 Articles, 10901 views)
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Tuesday, May 19, 2015
Europe's Boat People - and Asia's As the climate crisis looms, the fate of the earth's poorest inhabitants often plays out on the high seas. However the current double crisis facing Europe and Asia suggests another - more immediate - consequence that political leaders are ignoring at our peril.
Tuesday, May 19, 2015Europe's Boat People - and Asia's As the climate crisis looms, the fate of the earth's poorest inhabitants often plays out on the high seas. However the current double crisis facing Europe and Asia suggests another - more immediate - consequence that political leaders are ignoring at our peril.
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Friday, October 3, 2014
Ships Passing in the Night Why are the people of Hong Kong so anxious to accede to Western type democracy when Westerners are increasingly disappointed in it?
Friday, October 3, 2014Ships Passing in the Night Why are the people of Hong Kong so anxious to accede to Western type democracy when Westerners are increasingly disappointed in it?
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Monday, September 15, 2014
A Win for the Absolute Minority in Sweden What the victory of Sweden's Social Democrats means with respect to the rise of fascism in the world - and its racial imbalance.
Monday, September 15, 2014A Win for the Absolute Minority in Sweden What the victory of Sweden's Social Democrats means with respect to the rise of fascism in the world - and its racial imbalance.
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016
The Post-US Election: An Exercise in Muddying While the Trump transition team ponders the selection of Secretary of State, seeming to envision someone who is an uber hawk with respect to Russia, this may all be smoke and mirrors - or the Pentagon hoping to ensure continuing high military budgets.
Wednesday, November 16, 2016The Post-US Election: An Exercise in Muddying While the Trump transition team ponders the selection of Secretary of State, seeming to envision someone who is an uber hawk with respect to Russia, this may all be smoke and mirrors - or the Pentagon hoping to ensure continuing high military budgets.
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Friday, August 19, 2016
A Pee in RIo: "We Used to Run this Place" Peeing in someone else's garden is a definite no-no, and when representatives of the 'greatest country on earth' ignore that basic principle of civilized society, we shouldn't be surprised when other, "lesser" peoples look askance at US 'exceptionalism'.
Friday, August 19, 2016A Pee in RIo: "We Used to Run this Place" Peeing in someone else's garden is a definite no-no, and when representatives of the 'greatest country on earth' ignore that basic principle of civilized society, we shouldn't be surprised when other, "lesser" peoples look askance at US 'exceptionalism'.
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Friday, December 5, 2014
A Worldwide Meme The Gezi Park protesters have not given up. We need to be aware of them and other similar movements around the world.
Friday, December 5, 2014A Worldwide Meme The Gezi Park protesters have not given up. We need to be aware of them and other similar movements around the world.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Letter from an American Syrian Resident A view of Syria going bad twenty years reveals much that Americans ignore.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014Letter from an American Syrian Resident A view of Syria going bad twenty years reveals much that Americans ignore.
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Friday, November 20, 2015
Putin's Groupies versus Stalin's It's important to recognize the difference between Soviet times and today's Russia. This implies that Americans who today recognize Vladimir Putin as the maina dult in the room are not repeating the mistakes of their grandparents who supported Stalin's Soviet Union.
Friday, November 20, 2015Putin's Groupies versus Stalin's It's important to recognize the difference between Soviet times and today's Russia. This implies that Americans who today recognize Vladimir Putin as the maina dult in the room are not repeating the mistakes of their grandparents who supported Stalin's Soviet Union.
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Thursday, October 1, 2015
Lavrov's Press Conference A Boon for Journos As Russia continues to turn Middle East diplomacy upside down by initiating consultations with the Iraqi government over the fight against terrorism, its Foreign Minister, who has chaired the Security Council in September, holds a press conference broadcast by RT.
Thursday, October 1, 2015Lavrov's Press Conference A Boon for Journos As Russia continues to turn Middle East diplomacy upside down by initiating consultations with the Iraqi government over the fight against terrorism, its Foreign Minister, who has chaired the Security Council in September, holds a press conference broadcast by RT.
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Saturday, April 12, 2014
The Real China Behind the Headlines in 'Forty-four Days' As events heat up in Ukraine, the future of the Eurasian continent is taking center stage. But how much do we really know about The Middle Kingdom?
Saturday, April 12, 2014The Real China Behind the Headlines in 'Forty-four Days' As events heat up in Ukraine, the future of the Eurasian continent is taking center stage. But how much do we really know about The Middle Kingdom?
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Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Europe's Coming of Age Europe's techtonic shift to the right has only now been recognized by the US paper of record, the NYT. Since it misses the phiulsosophical underpinnings of this mouvement that is only distantly related to the US Alt right, I have tried to bridge the gap.
Wednesday, November 30, 2016Europe's Coming of Age Europe's techtonic shift to the right has only now been recognized by the US paper of record, the NYT. Since it misses the phiulsosophical underpinnings of this mouvement that is only distantly related to the US Alt right, I have tried to bridge the gap.
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Friday, June 26, 2015
Down to the Wire for Greece As the world counts down to the final deadline for Greece to reach an argreement with its international creditors, an international group of economists and government officials came together in Delphi, site of the ancient Greek oracle, to explore solutions.
Friday, June 26, 2015Down to the Wire for Greece As the world counts down to the final deadline for Greece to reach an argreement with its international creditors, an international group of economists and government officials came together in Delphi, site of the ancient Greek oracle, to explore solutions.
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Saturday, June 27, 2015
Greece Jumps the Fence The decision by Greece's Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipra, to hold a referendum on the conditions being demanded by the international financial community to enable Greece to continue paying its salaries is intended as a message to the peoples of Europe.
Saturday, June 27, 2015Greece Jumps the Fence The decision by Greece's Prime Minister, Alexis Tsipra, to hold a referendum on the conditions being demanded by the international financial community to enable Greece to continue paying its salaries is intended as a message to the peoples of Europe.
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Friday, June 6, 2014
When is a Rose Not a Rose? Obama's foreign policy contradictions and Hollande's bid for independence.
Friday, June 6, 2014When is a Rose Not a Rose? Obama's foreign policy contradictions and Hollande's bid for independence.
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Tuesday, June 10, 2014
The Empire's Musical Chairs An under the radar NGO that has been playing a significant role in electoral outcomes worldwide for decades.
Tuesday, June 10, 2014The Empire's Musical Chairs An under the radar NGO that has been playing a significant role in electoral outcomes worldwide for decades.
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Monday, July 20, 2015
Syria Update Today RT announced a terrorist attck in a Turkish town near the border with the syrian town of Kobani, thought to be the work of Islamic extremists. This will momentarily bring attention back to the Syrian conflict, which has been relegated to a back burner.
Monday, July 20, 2015Syria Update Today RT announced a terrorist attck in a Turkish town near the border with the syrian town of Kobani, thought to be the work of Islamic extremists. This will momentarily bring attention back to the Syrian conflict, which has been relegated to a back burner.
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Sunday, June 19, 2016
Today: Watch Fareed Zakaria with Vladimir Putin in St.Petersburg Signalling one egregious example of the way in which the Western media distorts events and facts. More on Zakaria's reporting of a yearly, major economic forum held in St.Petersburg with political and business attendees from around the world, only mentioned, even in the WSJ.
Sunday, June 19, 2016Today: Watch Fareed Zakaria with Vladimir Putin in St.Petersburg Signalling one egregious example of the way in which the Western media distorts events and facts. More on Zakaria's reporting of a yearly, major economic forum held in St.Petersburg with political and business attendees from around the world, only mentioned, even in the WSJ.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2015
China Celebrates V-J Day - Without US Some world leaders still infuse their diplomatic behavior with memes from the schoolyard, as when the US refuses to attend end of World War II celebrations with what were, at the time, two major allies, Russia and China. Meanwhile, Russia and China move forward, together with a majority of the world's inhabitants.
Wednesday, September 2, 2015China Celebrates V-J Day - Without US Some world leaders still infuse their diplomatic behavior with memes from the schoolyard, as when the US refuses to attend end of World War II celebrations with what were, at the time, two major allies, Russia and China. Meanwhile, Russia and China move forward, together with a majority of the world's inhabitants.
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Saturday, January 23, 2016
To 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.
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.
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Monday, May 26, 2014
From Dreux to Nanterre What the stunning upset in Europe's parliamentary election means for Eurasia.
Monday, May 26, 2014From Dreux to Nanterre What the stunning upset in Europe's parliamentary election means for Eurasia.
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Saturday, June 11, 2016
English Channel: It's a Sub! No, it's a Dinghy! What goes around comes around. Here's another signal that the world may be careening toward World War III, but perhaps not quite in the way we've come to expect. Is ther really no way for Europe to get its act together according to the aspirations of most of its people?
Saturday, June 11, 2016English Channel: It's a Sub! No, it's a Dinghy! What goes around comes around. Here's another signal that the world may be careening toward World War III, but perhaps not quite in the way we've come to expect. Is ther really no way for Europe to get its act together according to the aspirations of most of its people?
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Thursday, January 8, 2015
Big Blooper by MSNBC Two US news channels duked it out last night and the one that was right is not the one we would have expected.
Thursday, January 8, 2015Big Blooper by MSNBC Two US news channels duked it out last night and the one that was right is not the one we would have expected.
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Friday, July 3, 2015
Fears of a Grexit Ignore True EU Situation With all the talk of the possibility that if Greece refuses the draconian requirements of the international banking system, other European states could follow, being overlooked is the fact that a significant number of EU countries do not use the Euro.
Friday, July 3, 2015Fears of a Grexit Ignore True EU Situation With all the talk of the possibility that if Greece refuses the draconian requirements of the international banking system, other European states could follow, being overlooked is the fact that a significant number of EU countries do not use the Euro.
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Sunday, October 19, 2008
From Freedom Fries to French Crow The real significance of the encounter between George Bush and French president Nicolas Sarkozy, yesterday at Camp David.
Sunday, October 19, 2008From Freedom Fries to French Crow The real significance of the encounter between George Bush and French president Nicolas Sarkozy, yesterday at Camp David.
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Monday, January 18, 2016
A 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.
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.
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Thursday, December 5, 2013
Ukraine's Hissy Fit Ukraine's fury over a flubbed EU deal - not integration but merely association - is based on historical wishful thinking.
Thursday, December 5, 2013Ukraine's Hissy Fit Ukraine's fury over a flubbed EU deal - not integration but merely association - is based on historical wishful thinking.
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Sunday, April 13, 2014
Turning Point What do Venezuela, led by a socialisst and Ukraine, led by a neo-conservative, have in common today?
Sunday, April 13, 2014Turning Point What do Venezuela, led by a socialisst and Ukraine, led by a neo-conservative, have in common today?
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Saturday, November 8, 2014
The Berlin Wall Reminiscences about the fall of the Berlin Wall and Europe's propensity for war.
Saturday, November 8, 2014The Berlin Wall Reminiscences about the fall of the Berlin Wall and Europe's propensity for war.
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Monday, August 31, 2015
Europe's New/Old Frontiers:Hegyeshalom and Ventimiglia Europe is again divided between East and West, not as it was during the Cold War, but as a result of American aggressions against its neighbors in the Middle East and across the Mediterranean. The humanitarian ethos that is the bedrock of the European Union is fraying dangerously.
Monday, August 31, 2015Europe's New/Old Frontiers:Hegyeshalom and Ventimiglia Europe is again divided between East and West, not as it was during the Cold War, but as a result of American aggressions against its neighbors in the Middle East and across the Mediterranean. The humanitarian ethos that is the bedrock of the European Union is fraying dangerously.
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Sunday, September 27, 2015
Good-bye Pope Francis: Don't Forget to Write! What will remain of Pope Francis' historic visit to the United States at a time when the leading Republican presidential contendant is calling for walls against Latinos and the sitting President has to decide whether to continue his war policies that have flooded Europe with refugees.
Sunday, September 27, 2015Good-bye Pope Francis: Don't Forget to Write! What will remain of Pope Francis' historic visit to the United States at a time when the leading Republican presidential contendant is calling for walls against Latinos and the sitting President has to decide whether to continue his war policies that have flooded Europe with refugees.
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Thursday, August 7, 2014
Need to Check CNN From Time to Time An alert to watch CNN's report on what is happening in Iraq.
Thursday, August 7, 2014Need to Check CNN From Time to Time An alert to watch CNN's report on what is happening in Iraq.
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Saturday, January 24, 2015
After Charlie's Ironies, the Saudi's If you thought Charlie was a sorry affair, see how the US media is dealing with the contradictions in our policies toward the Muslim world.
Saturday, January 24, 2015After Charlie's Ironies, the Saudi's If you thought Charlie was a sorry affair, see how the US media is dealing with the contradictions in our policies toward the Muslim world.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Trump'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.
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.
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Monday, June 15, 2015
Italy Demands EU Share Migrants - or Else As pressure builds on Europe's Eastern frontier with Ukraine, it faces a crisis of unimaginable proportions to the south. The far-right, anti-immigrant parties are gaining strength across the continent, as govenrments flounder over what to do about thousands crossing from Africa.
Monday, June 15, 2015Italy Demands EU Share Migrants - or Else As pressure builds on Europe's Eastern frontier with Ukraine, it faces a crisis of unimaginable proportions to the south. The far-right, anti-immigrant parties are gaining strength across the continent, as govenrments flounder over what to do about thousands crossing from Africa.
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Sunday, January 26, 2014
The Enemy Never Changes A more personal note about my blogs and reactions to them, linked, as always, to the latest news.
Sunday, January 26, 2014The Enemy Never Changes A more personal note about my blogs and reactions to them, linked, as always, to the latest news.
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Thursday, March 6, 2014
Pusillanimous Europe Europe has forgotten the years it spent under Nazi occupation, seeing only the 'advantages' of a globalization that is in fact HItler's revenge.
Thursday, March 6, 2014Pusillanimous Europe Europe has forgotten the years it spent under Nazi occupation, seeing only the 'advantages' of a globalization that is in fact HItler's revenge.
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Monday, March 17, 2014
Of Governments and Mobs What is the relationship between govenrments and their subjects in a world with over 7 billion people?
Monday, March 17, 2014Of Governments and Mobs What is the relationship between govenrments and their subjects in a world with over 7 billion people?
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Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Noticed Today: Advantages of Parliamentary Government How long would it take the US government to provide relief for producers threatened with brankrupty? Recent history shows that this would involve long, hard negotiations withe 'the peoples representatives' in what are usually a contentious congressional bodies.
Wednesday, July 22, 2015Noticed Today: Advantages of Parliamentary Government How long would it take the US government to provide relief for producers threatened with brankrupty? Recent history shows that this would involve long, hard negotiations withe 'the peoples representatives' in what are usually a contentious congressional bodies.
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Sunday, February 7, 2016
Story 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.
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.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Spain's Copycat Demonstrators are Progressives The inevitable start of copycat violence inspired by the NeoNazi Maidan, by progressives with specific demands.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014Spain's Copycat Demonstrators are Progressives The inevitable start of copycat violence inspired by the NeoNazi Maidan, by progressives with specific demands.
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Thursday, October 27, 2016
Wait a Minute! Is Early Voting Part of Campaigning? IS there some hanky-panky going on right before our eyes as early voting is folded into campaign rhetoric? Trump warns about rigged elections, yet he is silence about this new practice which could well swing the election one way or the other, as part of campaigning.
Thursday, October 27, 2016Wait a Minute! Is Early Voting Part of Campaigning? IS there some hanky-panky going on right before our eyes as early voting is folded into campaign rhetoric? Trump warns about rigged elections, yet he is silence about this new practice which could well swing the election one way or the other, as part of campaigning.
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Friday, October 2, 2009
Chicago First Out; "We Used to Run This Place!" 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.
Friday, October 2, 2009Chicago First Out; "We Used to Run This Place!" 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.
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Thursday, June 4, 2009
Obama Remembered his Childhood, Did his Homework - and Pulled the Rug out From Under Osama Those looking for a blueprint for U.S. Muslim relations were looking for the wrong thing. What we got was much more valuable.
Thursday, June 4, 2009Obama Remembered his Childhood, Did his Homework - and Pulled the Rug out From Under Osama Those looking for a blueprint for U.S. Muslim relations were looking for the wrong thing. What we got was much more valuable.
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Friday, October 31, 2008
A Race Between Cuba and the U.S. A new movement for participatory, democratic socialism, arises in Cuba, with a detailed blueprint.
Friday, October 31, 2008A Race Between Cuba and the U.S. A new movement for participatory, democratic socialism, arises in Cuba, with a detailed blueprint.
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Saturday, September 27, 2014
Of Terorists and Referenda It's beginning to become clear that ISIS was created by the West - but the reason is not spelled out.
Saturday, September 27, 2014Of Terorists and Referenda It's beginning to become clear that ISIS was created by the West - but the reason is not spelled out.
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Today's Key News Items As OEN's Foreign Editor, I will be signalling key foreign news items on a more or less daily basis, as dictated by events. To be included in this report, an event would have to be considered as having 'long legs', in other words to signal a virtually unstoppable process, as in the physical law that the arrow of time is irreversible.
Wednesday, June 24, 2015Today's Key News Items As OEN's Foreign Editor, I will be signalling key foreign news items on a more or less daily basis, as dictated by events. To be included in this report, an event would have to be considered as having 'long legs', in other words to signal a virtually unstoppable process, as in the physical law that the arrow of time is irreversible.
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Sunday, December 1, 2013
What do 1517, 1914 and 1917 Have in Common with 2014? A look back at other important dates in the teens, and what they might imply for 2014.
Sunday, December 1, 2013What do 1517, 1914 and 1917 Have in Common with 2014? A look back at other important dates in the teens, and what they might imply for 2014.
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Sunday, October 5, 2014
Baghdadi's Pitch What does Pakistani Taliban support for ISIS portend for the global struggle against terrorism?
Sunday, October 5, 2014Baghdadi's Pitch What does Pakistani Taliban support for ISIS portend for the global struggle against terrorism?
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Sunday, April 13, 2014
Copycat Demonstrations and the Arrow of Time What is, thus far, the real danger to Europe posed by the events in Ukraine?
Sunday, April 13, 2014Copycat Demonstrations and the Arrow of Time What is, thus far, the real danger to Europe posed by the events in Ukraine?
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Saturday, June 13, 2015
Mumia abu Jamal Still Denied Access to Outside Physician Black America's most famous prisoner, former Black Panther Mumia abu Jamal, has been allowed to become diabetic in prison while awaiting a new trial which could free him after decades in solitary confinement. As another falsely convicted black prisoner, Abert Woodfox, awaits release, Mumia is denied outside medical help.
Saturday, June 13, 2015Mumia abu Jamal Still Denied Access to Outside Physician Black America's most famous prisoner, former Black Panther Mumia abu Jamal, has been allowed to become diabetic in prison while awaiting a new trial which could free him after decades in solitary confinement. As another falsely convicted black prisoner, Abert Woodfox, awaits release, Mumia is denied outside medical help.
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Sunday, May 25, 2014
The New York Times as Binky Thoughts about what being addicted to the paper of reference implies.
Sunday, May 25, 2014The New York Times as Binky Thoughts about what being addicted to the paper of reference implies.
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Monday, October 6, 2008
Palin's Roman Circus Sarah Palin in Clearwater Florida this morning with a red, white and blue crowd.
Monday, October 6, 2008Palin's Roman Circus Sarah Palin in Clearwater Florida this morning with a red, white and blue crowd.
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Frances or Donald? It's not often that our regular TV fare is contrasted with something really special, but today it happened. Pope Francis began his American tour in the nation's capital, putting in a grueling day that visibly tired him but no less visibly transformed his public.
Wednesday, September 23, 2015Frances or Donald? It's not often that our regular TV fare is contrasted with something really special, but today it happened. Pope Francis began his American tour in the nation's capital, putting in a grueling day that visibly tired him but no less visibly transformed his public.
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Not 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?
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?
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Thursday, September 3, 2015
Hegyeshalom 1989-2015 What a difference twenty-five years makes! The European Union has been seeking ever closer ties among its members since it was first mooted as an Iron and Coal agreement in the nineteen-fifties. Twenty-five years ago Hungary opened its border with Austria, enabling the Berlin Wall to come down months later. Now it is building fences.
Thursday, September 3, 2015Hegyeshalom 1989-2015 What a difference twenty-five years makes! The European Union has been seeking ever closer ties among its members since it was first mooted as an Iron and Coal agreement in the nineteen-fifties. Twenty-five years ago Hungary opened its border with Austria, enabling the Berlin Wall to come down months later. Now it is building fences.
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Friday, July 3, 2015
Story to Watch The Chinese are not only buying up luxury apartments abroad, they are investing in productive assets of the world, making up for the time when its emperors were convinced that China's security required it to destroy any ship that could sail beyond coastal waters.
Friday, July 3, 2015Story to Watch The Chinese are not only buying up luxury apartments abroad, they are investing in productive assets of the world, making up for the time when its emperors were convinced that China's security required it to destroy any ship that could sail beyond coastal waters.
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
The MSM's Unbearable Downplay of Reality Political and economic oblivion, mightily aided by the Mainstream Media.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008The MSM's Unbearable Downplay of Reality Political and economic oblivion, mightily aided by the Mainstream Media.
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Riding the Tiger over Mixed Terrain 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.
Wednesday, June 3, 2009Riding the Tiger over Mixed Terrain 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.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Two Deadlines, Same Demand The world stage is witnessing many battles, and the media's accent isinvariably on their nuts and bolts. However, underlying all of these struggles is one overriding demand: that ordinary people be treated with the dignity and respect hitherto reserved for the few.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015Two Deadlines, Same Demand The world stage is witnessing many battles, and the media's accent isinvariably on their nuts and bolts. However, underlying all of these struggles is one overriding demand: that ordinary people be treated with the dignity and respect hitherto reserved for the few.
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Thursday, July 10, 2014
Summer Signs Confirmed Summer 2014 as a watershed in American hegemony: Yesterday's insights confirmed by today's news.
Thursday, July 10, 2014Summer Signs Confirmed Summer 2014 as a watershed in American hegemony: Yesterday's insights confirmed by today's news.
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Thursday, April 3, 2014
Philly Workers/Activists to Celebrate May Day Big March planned for May Day in Philly.
Thursday, April 3, 2014Philly Workers/Activists to Celebrate May Day Big March planned for May Day in Philly.
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Is Service to Country the Answer? Is nationalism still viable? Do we owe service to a country or to the world?
Wednesday, November 12, 2008Is Service to Country the Answer? Is nationalism still viable? Do we owe service to a country or to the world?
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Monday, December 9, 2013
Honoring Mandela and Other Inconvenient Truths Government attitudes toward the ANC and people's opposition to fracking are both related to history.
Monday, December 9, 2013Honoring Mandela and Other Inconvenient Truths Government attitudes toward the ANC and people's opposition to fracking are both related to history.
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Friday, May 8, 2009
What Specter's Spectacular Could Portend How Specter's move could make it possible to create a third party without having to start from scratch.
Friday, May 8, 2009What Specter's Spectacular Could Portend How Specter's move could make it possible to create a third party without having to start from scratch.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Time to Get Fascism Out of the Closet This article opens a discussion of fascism as the 400 pound gorilla in our political discussions.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008Time to Get Fascism Out of the Closet This article opens a discussion of fascism as the 400 pound gorilla in our political discussions.
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Sunday, April 19, 2009
Latin American Summit: Riding the Tiger Together 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.
Sunday, April 19, 2009Latin American Summit: Riding the Tiger Together 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.
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
A National Assembly to End the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan All the enthusiasm of the anti-war movement is not going to save the planet from a melt-down that will make our wars irrelevent.
Thursday, July 16, 2009A National Assembly to End the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan All the enthusiasm of the anti-war movement is not going to save the planet from a melt-down that will make our wars irrelevent.
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Thursday, February 19, 2009
Liebermann All the Way Could Avigdor Liebermann's campaign to require loyalty oaths from Israeli Arabs point the way to a solution to the sixty year old conflict?
Thursday, February 19, 2009Liebermann All the Way Could Avigdor Liebermann's campaign to require loyalty oaths from Israeli Arabs point the way to a solution to the sixty year old conflict?
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Nothing Can Stop it Now 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.
Friday, June 26, 2009Nothing Can Stop it Now 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.
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Monday, November 3, 2008
Liberal or Progressive: What's in a Name? Why split hairs over the labels liberal and progressive when the real need is for an exploration of successful social democratic societies?
Monday, November 3, 2008Liberal or Progressive: What's in a Name? Why split hairs over the labels liberal and progressive when the real need is for an exploration of successful social democratic societies?
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Sunday, July 26, 2009
Beating Health Care to Death Why Congress is not getting to the point about health care.
Sunday, July 26, 2009Beating Health Care to Death Why Congress is not getting to the point about health care.
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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.
Saturday, April 4, 2009The 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.
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Wednesday, November 5, 2008
Where Can He Take Us? 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.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008Where Can He Take Us? 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.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Selfishness is Un-American Americans have lost sight of the fact that self-reliance does not rule of solidarity.
Thursday, August 13, 2009Selfishness is Un-American Americans have lost sight of the fact that self-reliance does not rule of solidarity.
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Friday, October 16, 2015
EU's Supreme Turkish Irony What goes around comes around as Turkey once again becomes a candidate for EU members, now that the EU has reluctnatly decided to welcome hundreds of thousands of refugees who share the same religion as most Turks: Islam. Turkey is key to managing the refugee crisis.
Friday, October 16, 2015EU's Supreme Turkish Irony What goes around comes around as Turkey once again becomes a candidate for EU members, now that the EU has reluctnatly decided to welcome hundreds of thousands of refugees who share the same religion as most Turks: Islam. Turkey is key to managing the refugee crisis.
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Tuesday, November 4, 2008
An Obama Morning Sights and sounds around the Obama Philadelphia headquarters on the morning of the vote.
Tuesday, November 4, 2008An Obama Morning Sights and sounds around the Obama Philadelphia headquarters on the morning of the vote.
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Tuesday, October 28, 2008
The Paradoxical Generosity of Americans What the republican injunction to keep more of your own money really means.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008The Paradoxical Generosity of Americans What the republican injunction to keep more of your own money really means.
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Sunday, November 9, 2008
Genius Idea at Checkout Keep wearing you Obama button, to remind the President-elect that yes, he can.
Sunday, November 9, 2008Genius Idea at Checkout Keep wearing you Obama button, to remind the President-elect that yes, he can.
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Sunday, August 2, 2009
The Real Health Care Culprit The media hasn't done its job educating the American people about single payer heath care.
Sunday, August 2, 2009The Real Health Care Culprit The media hasn't done its job educating the American people about single payer heath care.
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
Making Everything Right The MSM media is addicted to fairy tales.
Thursday, November 13, 2008Making Everything Right The MSM media is addicted to fairy tales.
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Sunday, September 20, 2009
Health Activists, Beware of Words! 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.
Sunday, September 20, 2009Health Activists, Beware of Words! 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.
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Friday, October 3, 2008
Backdoor Socialism What's behind the Republican reference to backdoor socialism?
Friday, October 3, 2008Backdoor Socialism What's behind the Republican reference to backdoor socialism?
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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.
Monday, January 19, 2009Of 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.
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Monday, April 6, 2009
There Should be No Buts from Obama in Europe Obama is cutting off his nose by asking the Europeans to change. We need to change, they don't.
Monday, April 6, 2009There Should be No Buts from Obama in Europe Obama is cutting off his nose by asking the Europeans to change. We need to change, they don't.
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Sunday, June 21, 2009
Mulling the Mullahs What's happening in Iran has happened before in other countries - and will continue to happen until the world becomes more homogeneous.
Sunday, June 21, 2009Mulling the Mullahs What's happening in Iran has happened before in other countries - and will continue to happen until the world becomes more homogeneous.
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Friday, September 4, 2009
Is There a Difference Between one War and Another, one Love and Another? While being active, we need to see our daily crises within the long arc of history.
Friday, September 4, 2009Is There a Difference Between one War and Another, one Love and Another? While being active, we need to see our daily crises within the long arc of history.
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Thursday, November 6, 2008
A Shadow Cabinet? In what may be an American first, Obama is already setting up his government. Will Congress decide to shorten future transition times?
Thursday, November 6, 2008A Shadow Cabinet? In what may be an American first, Obama is already setting up his government. Will Congress decide to shorten future transition times?
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Different Streets, Same Solution Why social democracy is not a dirty word.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008Different Streets, Same Solution Why social democracy is not a dirty word.
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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!
Friday, February 6, 2009Two 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!
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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.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009Cradle to Grave Television We've already got cradle to grave television, now all we need is to apply it to solidarity.
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