On the one hand this past week, Thomas Friedman at the New York Times has written a praising column about Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman (...

The race is between the two nations competing for global dominance, the US and China.  This post is triggered by an unnamed editorial in tod...

On today's Washington Post editorial page in a column entitled "Packing the courts like a turducken" (a deboned duck within a ...

That would be respective Angela Merkel and Janet Yellen, both reported to have lost a lot of power in today's Washington Post.  During a...

Financial Times reported yesterday that Amin Nasser, the CEO of the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO, currently 100% owned by the Saudi ...

There’s a Dangerous Bubble in the Fossil-Fuel Economy, and the Trump Administration Is Making It Worse... "In reversing many of Obama...

Of course that is not what Muhammed bin Salman (MbS) or his mouthpieces claim, but it is pretty much what every commentator I have seen outs...

I just finished reading the Chronicle of Higher Ed’s profile of Mark Bray , author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook .  I don’t know how ...

I know, boring boring boring old news.  But now that he has had his hind end kicked by the recent off-off election results, it is time to ge...

Today marks the centennial of the Great October Socialist Revolution, known when I was young in the US as the Russian Revolution, and also p...

Everybody is against corruption, so it has become the new cool way to concentrate power in dictatorial societies to engage in an anti-corrup...

I rarely talk directly about specific political races, but I live in Virginia where in less than a week there will be the most closely watch...

It seems that the two recent independence referenda have largely collapsed.  One was in Iraqi Kurdistan, with President Massound Barzani hav...

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