RESETTING THE NORMS FOR INTERNATIONAL DEAL-MAKING… (…by threats of economic blunderbuss blasts and corrosive quick-lime invectives for emphasis) President Trump’s executive order to withdraw from the Iranian nuclear deal has reset the norms for international deal-making. Rather than applying conventional
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THE FRAGMENTING OF OUR INTERNATIONALIST MATRIX… (…by the acute eruptions of nationalistic fevers everywhere) Recent summit conferences with NATO, the G7, and the G20 countries clearly show that we have come to the end of an era, with the fragmenting
HAS NORTH KOREA BECOME AN ASYLUM RUN BY BI-POLAR INMATES… (…aiming for another round of aggression?) Ever since the end of WWII, when we and our erstwhile Soviet Russian wartime allies partitioned the Korean peninsula for occupation purposes, much in
THE FIRST DEBATE…EQUIVALENT TO A NASTY FOOD-FIGHT… (…between two kids squabbling over which one is offering us the better brownbag menu) The first debate of the 2016 Presidential campaign flooded out over the broadcast channels last night. As usual, it
RESOLVING THE SYRIAN SITUATION (with some perspectives on how best to salvage something from it) After nearly five years of civil conflict during which several hundred thousand have been killed, millions displaced as refugees, and the rise of extremism in
ARE WE NOW PIMPING FOR PUTIN’S PUTAISSMO IN SYRIA… (… just because we really don’t want to be more involved than we are already?) By openly increasing Russia’s presence in the Syrian civil war, Putin has made an opportunistic whore’s
KICKING THE CAN OF IRAN’S NUCLEAR AMBITIONS DOWN THE ROAD… (…as we’re tip-toeing forward through the tulips of…mutual distrust) After more than two and half years of diplomatic musical chairs, to negotiate some sort of deal to nullify Iran’s efforts
TODAY’S SEA PEOPLES… (…a replay of an ancient story…in reverse) Some three thousand years ago or so the entire Middle East was shaken up and left in chaos, much as it is today. The cause, back then, seems to have