OBAMA DOES THE RIGHT THING OVER CUBA
December 20, 2014 President Barack Obama announced this week that the United States will reopen diplomatic relations with Cuba, thawing half a century of cold – and sometimes hot – war. The first time...
View ArticleThe Tsunami Facing Cuba
January 24, 2015 It’s taken over half a century for the US to finally figure out how to neutralize pesky Communist Cuba. Invasions, air raids, crushing sanctions, attempts to murder the Castro...
View ArticleMARCH TO FOLLY IN UKRAINE
January 31, 2015 The United States has just made an exceptionally dangerous, even reckless decision over Ukraine. Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who ended the Cold War, warns it may lead to a...
View ArticleWERE THE SAUDIS BEHIND 9/11?
7 February, 2015 Claims that Saudi Arabia was behind the 9/11 attacks on America have been circulating since 2001. The Saudis have denied all such claims even though 15 of the 19 aircraft hijackers...
View ArticlePUTIN HEADS OFF A US-RUSSIA WAR
15 February 2015 Has Russia’s Vladimir Putin pulled Barack Obama’s chestnuts out of the fire for a second time? Will the shaky cease-fire in Ukraine that began this weekend hold up and end a conflict...
View ArticleFASCISM IS COMING ALIVE AGAIN
February 28, 2015 The wildly exaggerated threat of so-called Islamic terrorism is being shamelessly used by some western governments to boost their flagging fortunes at a time of economic...
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“GET ME A BATTLESHIP!”
March 7, 2015 NEW YORK – During World War II, the very drunk American humorist Robert Benchley, decked out in a tux and top hat, came staggering out of the tony Sherry-Netherlands Hotel....
View ArticleThe Best Congress Money Can Buy
March 14, 2015 Be proud, America! You have the very best Congress that money can buy. It’s no secret that many in the House and Senate have long been corrupted by money and special interests. The...
View ArticleHOW TO DEAL WITH THE IRANIAN GENII?
April 11, 2015 The deal reached in Lausanne, Switzerland by Iran and five powers, led by the US, appears to be about nuclear capability. In fact, the real issue was not nuclear weapons, which Iran...
View ArticleCHINA’S PLAN TO LEAD THE GLOBE
May 23, 2015 As tensions in the South China Sea between the US and China continue to rise, the US Navy and Air Force are quietly gearing up to fight a war in the disputed region. If necessary, that...
View ArticleOBAMA ACTS FOR AMERICA’S INTERESTS
18 July 2015 Barack Obama is the first American president to stand up to the Israel lobby since Dwight Eisenhower ordered Israel to withdraw from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula in 1956-57. Freed of...
View ArticleSPYING ON OUR FRIENDS IS NOT A GOOD IDEA
25 July 2015 There’s been so much dramatic news these days – from Greece’s miseries to Iran, China from blowhard Donald Trump – that the shocking story of how America’s National Security Agency has...
View ArticleWHY DO WE LAMENT A-BOMBS AND NOT FIRE-BOMBS?
8 August 2015 All war is a crime. There is no such thing as a “good war.” As the great Benjamin Franklin said, “there is no good war; and no bad peace.” We are now in the midst of the annual...
View ArticleREPUBLICANS CAN’T FACE THE TRUTH ABOUT IRAQ
15 August 2015 Gov. Jeb Bush repeated one of the biggest falsehoods of our time during the recent presidential candidate debate: “we were misled (into the Iraq War) by faulty intelligence.” US...
View ArticleTHREE OF AMERICA’S ‘GREAT SATANS’ DEAD
22 August 2015 The deaths in South Asia of three of the West’s ‘Great Satans’ were announced in recent weeks: Mullah Omar and Jalaluddin Haqqani in Afghanistan; and Pakistan’s Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul. I...
View ArticleCHINA’S FORGOTTEN VICTORY IN WWII
September 5, 2015 The huge military parade held in Beijing this week was billed as a commemoration of China’s role in World War II. Over 15 million Chinese died in its eight-year resistance to...
View ArticleRUSSIAN MOUSE THREATENS US ELEPHANT
18 SEPT 2015 The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!” So echoed the cry this week from the Pentagon, the US media and Republican candidates for president. How silly. It seems the...
View ArticleTHE US AND CHINA ARE PLAYING WITH MATCHES
October 31, 2015 Russia and US warplanes are flying way too close to one another over Syria and may soon, in Iraq. Drones are all over the place. An accident is inevitable. Civilian airliners are...
View ArticleTHINK BEFORE YOU RUSH TO WAR
December 3, 2015 Concentration of forces is the most basic law of military science. Victory on the battlefield is won by amassing as many troops as possible at the key point of attack, or...
View ArticleRETRO COLD WAR GUFF FROM THE NY TIMES
27 December 2015 A striking example of how dangerously Americans are misinformed and misled by the war party was featured in a major article in 24 December, New York Times. In “Russia Rearms for a New...
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