THE TERROR OF NEW YORK VALUES
17 January 2016 A new low in the presidential primary debates was reached last week when candidate Ted Cruz charged that Donald Trump represents “New York values.” This was almost as a bad as when...
View ArticleHillary Haunted by Libya
5 March 2016 I went to Libya in 1987 to interview its strongman, Muammar Khadaffi. We spent an evening talking in his colorful Bedouin tent outside the Bab al-Azizya Barracks in Tripoli which had been...
View ArticleLOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP IN NORTH KOREA
12 March 2016 Happiness is having your very own atomic bomb. This week we saw pictures of beaming North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, examining either a nuclear model or maybe even the real warhead of a...
View ArticleDONALD – BULLDOZE THE ROTTEN GOP
19 March 2016 Palm Beach, Florida – Having an interesting dinner at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and residence – which may become the southern White House if fed-up American voters have their way....
View ArticleVIVA CUBA LIBRE!
26 March 2016 Long ago in Havana, my mother and father would take me to the famed “Floridita” bar to join a burly, white-bearded man and drink daiquiris. He gave me his book, “A Farewell to Arms,”...
View ArticleBULLDOZER TRUMP SAYS GET RID OF NATO
2 April, 2016 Donald Trump has been making many revolutionary proposals. Unfortunately, they have often been obscured by the furor over his fumbled remarks about abortion and the pulsating hatred of...
View ArticleWILL THE US GO TO NUCLEAR WAR OVER KOBE OR PUSAN?
9 April 2016 Should Japan and South Korea be permitted to develop nuclear weapons? That was the very good question posed last week by candidate Donald Trump. Washington’s elite and neocon war party...
View ArticleDEFENDING DEMOCRACY TO THE LAST DROP OF OIL
23 April 2016 Poor President Barack Obama flew to Saudi Arabia this past week but its ruler, King Salman, was too busy to greet him at Riyadh’s airport. This snub was seen across the Arab world as a...
View ArticleUS REPUBLICANS FEAR THE DONALD
May 7, 2016 NEW YORK – It’s been a treat watching the arrogant, Masters of the Universe Republicans wring their hands and ululate over the terror that is Donald Trump. Most of my serious Republican...
View ArticleWAR AND DEBT IS WHY OUR TRAINS ARE BROKEN
4 June 2016 NEW YORK CITY – America is falling apart. Anyone who travels in this great land knows it. This great city is crumbling. I’m scared to take the underwater tunnels to Long Island or New...
View ArticleDO WE REALLY WANT WAR WITH RUSSIA?
25 June 2016 War with Russia appears increasingly likely as the US and its NATO satraps continue their military provocations of Moscow. As dangers mount, our foolish politicians should all be forced to...
View ArticleSEND OUR WAR CRIMINALS TO THE HAGUE COURT
9 July 2016 This week’s Chilcot report on Britain’s role in the 2003 invasion of Iraq was as polite and guarded as a proper English tea party. No direct accusations, no talk of war crimes by then Prime...
View ArticleAMERICA’S LONGEST WAR GETS LONGER
July 30, 2016 Anti-Russian hysteria in America reached its apogee this week as Democrats tried to divert attention from embarrassing revelations about how the Democratic Party apparatus had rigged the...
View ArticleTRUMP’S MOUTH IS HIS WORST ENEMY
6 August 2016 It’s been the week from hell for Donald Trump. Everything seems to be going wrong for him. The worst was the foolish and painful fight he picked with the grieving Khan family. What...
View ArticleEVEN NUKES GROW OLD
13 August 2016 Everything grows old. I’m told one day the stars and planets will turn to dust. So I suppose it’s no surprise that America’s arsenal of nuclear weapons is also showing signs of advancing...
View ArticlePENTAGON AND CIA AT WAR IN SYRIA
3 Sept 2016 What a mess! In the crazy Syrian war, US-backed and armed groups are fighting other US-backed rebel groups. How can this be? It is so because the Obama White House had stirred up war in...
View ArticleKIM’S LATEST BIG BANG
17 Sept 2016 North Korea’s fifth nuclear test produced an explosion fury and hysteria around the world, more empty threats against the Hermit Kingdom, and a giant sell-off in stock markets by foolish...
View ArticleHOW FAR ARE WE FROM WAR WITH RUSSIA OVER SYRIA?
2 Oct 2016 OK you Russians! No more gentle American diplomacy! No more Mr. Nice Guy! So thundered US Secretary of State John Kerry last week. Right on cue, the usually overwrought US ambassador to the...
View ArticleAFGHANISTAN – FOOL’S WAR
8 October 2016 Fifteen years ago this week, the US launched the longest war in its history: the invasion and occupation of remote Afghanistan. Neighboring Pakistan was forced to facilitate the American...
View ArticleMAYBE TRUMP COULD RUN THE EU?
October 15, 2016 Frankfurt, Germany – Most Europeans are quietly horrified watching Donald Trump torn to pieces by political piranhas while Wall Street’s candidate, Hillary Clinton, appears to be...
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