Developing non-interventionist position on Ukraine
Although generally critical of President Obama, Andrew Kreig in article on "Media Self-Censorship" recently published at OpEdNews.com has noted that President Obama has moved toward a...
View ArticleIs NATO necessary?
I'm really old - old enough to remember when true conservatives opposed USA participation in NATO (per 'Mr. Republican' Senator Robert Taft in the late 1940s and into the 1950s). Today I read Paul...
View ArticleSenator Wyden on fast-track - long and short of it
Senator Wyden (D-OR) has come out today with a statement to constituents that appears to be an attempt to negotiate a compromise on the issue now before Congress - namely, Fast Track or TPA (Trade...
View ArticleThe Baltimore Twist - torture statutes needed?
There's a question that lingers over Baltimore and the alleged murder of Freddie Gray: exactly how was Gray's spine or spinal cord "80% severed"? Different people interpret the videos differently....
View ArticleRepublicans attempt double-cross: Wyden says forget about it
Here's email I received this evening from Senator Ron Wyden (Oregon). Wyden made a real effort to salvage something from the TPP by changing the 'fast-track' procedures. He thought he had a deal, which...
View ArticleWyden gets his original demands and swings back to Center Right
I had thought that Wyden's criticism of the unvarnished TPP - including criticism that it condones slavery in places like Indonesia - was stiff enough that Wyden could never swing back into the YEA...
View Article@chinahand connects decades-long string of dots
Peter Lee, (chinamatters.blobspot.com or @chinahand) currently connects up a long string of dots all the way from back in the Yugoslav War (1989) to the current problems in sorting out the territorial...
View ArticleUSA versus the People's Republic in 21st Century
I have just happened upon an excellent analysis of the whole ball of wax, by Alfred McCoy, at the UNZ Review: The Geopolitics of American Global Decline: Washington Versus China in the Twenty-First...
View ArticleChina's Coming War With Asia
Understanding that our MSM is worthless, we turn to alternatives such as Asia Times. Beyond that, we do become aware that Pepe Escobar's writings in Asia Times may not be universally accepted by...
View ArticleUdall running for VP?
I am not one of those who considers that Hillary is as good as nominated. However, I think that enough people do so consider that there must be many out there thinking about the VP slot on a Hillary...
View ArticlePresident Obama's realistic goals
Many supposedly intelligent leftist bloggers like to harshly criticize President Obama as a total failure, based on whatever the government does or experiences during his administrations, as directly...
View ArticleGreek tragedy or medieval morality play?
Some say Greece is trapped in a tragedy, and so the Greek people will submit to the inevitable and vote to accept their condition of slavery within Europe. According to that view, allready and...
View ArticleFriend of the Devil is a friend of mine
In article published 7 July (2015), Paul Craig Roberts ("PCR") comes amazingly close to crediting the Obama administration with taking intelligent positions regarding Greece's debt problems..Here's his...
View ArticleGroundhog Day(s) in July?
Saying that it was beginning to feel like Bill Murray's Groundhog Day, John Kerry recently got a laugh out of the staid company of nuclear weapons negotiators on the occasion of the Iran talks breezing...
View ArticleGold, Greece and greed
Remember way back in summer of 2011 when President Obama was trying to work something out so as to avoid a government shutdown over the issue of the so-called debt limit? And there were negotiations...
View ArticleVote is now under way in Athens - POLL
That's latest from the UK Telegraph's 'Economy' page -http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...BTW: A poll similar to what is appended hereunder has also been published at the UK Telegraph's 'Economics' page.
View ArticlePersonnel is policy
Received today an email from Elizabeth Warren. I excerpt from that email, as follows:Money for campaigns and PACs. Money to hire armies of lobbyists and lawyers. Money for PR firms and trade...
View ArticleJulian Bond: Gay rights are civil rights
Julian Bond in recent Anderson Cooper interview commented: "One of the most cynical things I've ever heard of or ever seen [is] the idea that black people who oppose gay marriage, black people who...
View ArticleTia Oso makes sense
How Tia Oso and allies make sense can be seen in the video they have produced that is available at FaceBook, showing that they have - to a high degree - the organizational and presentational skills...
View ArticleIs Bernie stuck in the middle with the Donald?
Strange to put Bernie and Donald together in any context, right? But here's the thing: they are both moderates. Bermie Sanders is a moderate Democrat and Donald Trump is a moderate Republican.And I say...
View ArticleA Trump-Webb ticket? (Poll)
DISCLOSURE: This suggestion (a Trump-Webb) ticket comes by way of Ilana Mercer, who writes the weekly "Paleolibertarian Column" for RT (formerly Russia Today).Briefly excerpting (for review purposes)...
View ArticleOCCUPY PEACE populist movement
A new mass political movement is forming, centered on the single issue of peace. The would-be populist movement calls itself, "OCCUPY PEACE".Formally launching at a rally at noon on September 20, 2015,...
View ArticleCould USA put a quick end to the Syrian Civil War?
Here's what Pepe Escpbar - the often brilliant and always flashy free-ranging columnist for Asia Times/Hong Kong, carried in Sputnik, has to say about the refugee crisis in Europe.According to Unicef,...
View ArticleWho Has the Best Plan for College Students?
Richard Eskow, writing at the Campaign for America's Future, essentially puts the question to members and supporters of the Democratic Party: Do we really want to pre-compromise the Democratic plan for...
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