THE GREAT WHITE FATHER COMES TO SAUDI ARABIA
May 27, 2017 The Great White Father came to Saudi Arabia last week to harangue some 50 Arab and African despots on the glories of Trumpism, democracy and the need to fight what the Americans call...
View ArticleTRUMP TO GERMANY: GO JUMP IN THE RHINE
June 3, 2017 Germany: ‘bad, very bad.’ Trump tweet. France’s brainy new president, Emmanuel Macron, said it was too bad that Donald Trump was not part of the Enlightenment. Few Americans would have...
View ArticleMIDWAY – THE US NAVY RULES THE WAVES
June 11, 2017 There’s not a lot to be proud of in today’s America: the Punch and Judy show in Washington; brutal but inept colonial wars in the Mideast against poorly armed enemies; pollution of the...
View ArticleTRUMP’S QATAR CRISIS
June 17, 2017 Tiny Qatar, the mouse that roared, has now managed to enrage the larger part of the Arab world and defy the newly-minted Mideast expert, Donald Trump. This month, an angry alliance of...
View ArticleEND THE KOREAN WAR
July 8, 2017 “I have some pretty severe things we’re thinking about,” Trump said of North Korea at a news conference in Warsaw. “Doesn’t mean we’re going to do them.” What President Trump really meant...
View ArticleTRUMP: END THE SYRIA WAR NOW
July 22, 2017 Many Americans voted for Donald Trump because he vowed to end the foreign conflicts in which the US had become entangled. So far, they have been disappointed. But this week a light...
View ArticleGET TRUMP’S FINGER OFF THE NUKE TRIGGER
August 26, 2017 President Trump’s ability to trigger a nuclear war is ‘pretty damn scary’ said former US intelligence director James Clapper this week. Remember when Trump vowed to ‘bomb the shit’ out...
View ArticleLISTEN TO THOSE ‘OR ELSES’
September 2, 2017 Old Chinese saying: ‘when elephants battle, ants get crushed.’ Think of the current crisis on the Korean Peninsula in which the government in Seoul has been all but ignored. South...
View ArticleMY THREATS ARE BIGGER THAN YOUR THREATS
September 23, 2017 NEW YORK – Not since Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev banged his fists and waved his shoe at the UN in 1960 has a world leader made such a spectacle of himself as President Donald...
View ArticleTRUMP SHOOTS THE US IN THE FOOT OVER IRAN
October 13, 2017 President Donald Trump has put the United States on the course for war with Iran. That was clearly his objective last Friday when he refused to certify the international nuclear...
View ArticleMISSION CREEP IN DARKEST AFRICA
November 4, 2017 `Take up the white man’s burden’ Rudyard Kipling, poet laureate of British imperialism The British Empire, which at the end of the 19th century ruled one quarter of the earth’s land...
View ArticleNO ONE MAN SHOULD BE ABLE TO TRIGGER NUCLEAR WAR
November 18, 2017 Amidst the rising clamor in the US over groping and goosing, America’s Congress is beginning to fret about President Donald Trump’s shaky finger being on the nation’s nuclear button....
View ArticleWASHINGTON RUNS AMOK WHILE KIM SMILES
December 2, 2017 Merry Christmas to one and all from North Korea. Glorious Leader Kim Jong-un unwrapped a wonderful new intercontinental missile, the Hwasong-15, which experts believe might be capable...
View ArticleTRUMP THE ERADICATOR
December 30, 2017 There is much President Trump does not understand about the outside world. High up on the list is the crucial importance of US trade policy in creating and sustaining the American...
View ArticleTRUMP TURNS ON PAKISTAN
January 13, 2018 Henry Kissinger rightly noted that it’s often more dangerous being an ally of the United States than its enemy. The latest victim of this sad truism is Pakistan, a loyal ally of the...
View ArticleWHY ONE WAR WHEN WE CAN HAVE TWO!
February 24, 2018 `We will continue to prosecute the campaign against terrorists, but great-power competition – not terrorism – is now the primary focus of US national security.’ Henceforth Russia...
View ArticlePLAYING WITH NUCLEAR MATCHES
14 April 2018 Behind President Donald Trump’s bluster and threats over Syria, powerful forces are pushing the US towards war with Russia and Syria: the neocons and the military industrial complex. For...
View ArticleMACRON’S TOUGH MESSAGE TO WASHINGTON
April 28, 2018 France likes to call itself America’s oldest and closest ally. Indeed, the American Revolution might never have succeeded without strong French military support. However, France...
View ArticleNUCLEAR CHUTZPAH
May 5, 2018 ‘Chutzpah’ is a wonderful Yiddish word that means outrageous nerve, or unmitigated gall. This week’s Chutzpah Award goes to Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Standing in...
View ArticleTRUMP’S WAR AGAINST IRAN
May 11, 2018 Israel launched waves of air attacks and ground shelling on a score of alleged Iranian military positions in Syria this week. Was this a big step forward in the plan by Israel’s leader...
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