A NEW CLASS OF MAFIA-TYPE DONS (emerging from the matrix of today’s oligarchic mobs) In almost every part of the world, including our own, there is a new class of mafia-type Dons emerging from the matrix of today’s oligarchic mobs.
North Korea
TIPTOEING FORWARD… (…into some semblance of peaceful co-existence) Regardless of his twitter-feed style of personal invective and incivility, President Trump must be given credit for his performance at the recent historic summit meeting in Singapore with North Korea’s leader Kim
BLESSED BE THE PEACE MAKERS… (if their guiding light is true…not false) Sixty-eight years ago I grew old, at twenty two, having been dumped helter-skelter as a three-striper with a bunch of 18-19 year old kids I had never seen
A PARTIAL LIST OF PROFILES… (…of some key international players from today’s news headlines) We should never believe that the subject of -international affairs- is either dull or un-intriguing. Far from it because it seems to be a never-ending soap
IT MIGHT JUST BE AN INVITATION TO ANOTHER DIPLOMATIC GAVOTTE.. (…and may not otherwise achieve any kind of meaningful outcome) Even when it occurs in its most byzantine and convoluted form, diplomacy generally is preferable to outright conflict, especially if
IT’S OFF TO ASIA WE GO… (hi…ho…hi…ho…to dealie-oh…it’s off to Asia we go…) Despite growing rumbles of more troubles to come from the investigation into his campaign’s connections with Russia’s meddling in the 2016 elections, the President is off on
THE TWO KOREAS (…residual victims of Cold War conflicts) Most people don’t know this but Korean history reaches far back in time when it was, perhaps, the most advanced culture and society in its region, with its influences reaching out
DEFIANT ROARINGS… (with wild rhetoric of the explosive kind) In a rare moment of unanimity (probably the first ever in its existence) the UN Security Council condemned North Korea’s continuing attempts to become a nuclear power with ICBM capabilities, by
NORTH KOREA…A BLACK HOLE OF POTENTIAL DISASTER… (…whose paranoia could suck everyone around it into useless conflict) North Korea’s continued atomic saber rattling, especially with its open display of developing high end missile technology, is becoming a black hole of
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