Nuisance Cyprus Could Get Really Dangerous
March 23, 2013 Realizing they will never be a world power, the Cypriots have decided to settle for being a world nuisance. ~ George Mikes, Hungarian writer Cyprus is a big pain in the neck for one and...
View ArticleWAR RISK RISES SHARPLY IN KOREA
March 30, 2013 The United States and the two feuding Koreas could blunder into a real war unless both Pyongyang and Washington cease provoking one another. Last week, two nuclear-capable US B-2 stealth...
View ArticleA BIG WAR SCARE IN THE HIMALAYAS
25 May 2013 In the later 1990’s, I was invited to a small dinner in New York given for the Dalai Lama. All of the guests came expecting to hear His Holiness explain the meaning of life. To their...
View ArticleSO MUCH FOR MIDEAST DEMOCRACY
July 6, 2013 The real story behind the military coup in Cairo led by General al-Sissi is much more complex than the western media is reporting. Far from a spontaneous uprising by Egyptians, – aka “a...
View ArticleJAPAN MUST FACE UP TO CHINA
July 27, 2013 World War II has never really ended for Japan. Sixty-eight years after the battleship US “Missouri” sailed into Tokyo Bay to receive the surrender of the Japanese Empire, Japan still...
View ArticleARE WE BECOMING WHAT WE ONCE HATED?
August 3, 2013 In the late 1980’s, an old friend of mine based in Moscow was calling her husband in the USA late one night. She said it was a “typical dumb husband/wife call,” mostly about a broken...
View ArticleKICKING SAND IN RUSSIA’S FACE
August 10, 2013 The single most important national security imperative for the United States is to maintain correct relations with Russia. It’s not al-Qaida, NSA, China, North Korea, or any other...
View ArticleSTORM ON THE NILE
17 August 2013 Egypt’s US-financed armed forces have gone to war against Egypt’s people. Arab spring has become Arab winter. So far, army and security police have scored brilliant battlefield victories...
View ArticleU.S. FACES DEBT DEFAULT
October 5, 2013 NEW YORK – “Banana Republicans,” sneered the Democrat’s leader, Senator Harry Reid. It’s not certain if Reid was comparing his conservative Republican opponents to monkeys or citizens...
View ArticleCARROTS OR STICKS FOR IRAN?
October 19, 2013 NEW YORK – The United States has the Iranian tiger by the tail. Washington doesn’t know whether to hold on or let the big beast go. The Mideast diplomatic thaw begun by Russia’s clever...
View ArticleBEN FRANKLIN WAS RIGHT ABOUT THE NSA
November 2, 2013 In 1975, I was invited to join the US Senate’s Church Committee that was formed after the Watergate scandals. Its goal was to investigate massive illegalities committed by the CIA,...
View ArticleTHE GREAT WESTERN GAS FIASCO
May 24, 2014 GENEVA – Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin usually wears a perfect poker face. But last week in Shanghai, the icy-cold Russian president came awfully close to bursting into a big grin. And...
View ArticleTHE BIG SNUB IN PARIS
June 7, 2014 Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin were ships passing in the night while in Paris for the G-7 meeting. The American president reportedly refused to dine with Putin, who was being...
View ArticleIT’S STILL 1945 IN EUROPE – IN WASHINGTON’S VIEW
July 12, 2014 Just how independent is the European Union? Given recent events involving the United States and its European allies, one really must wonder. First, there was the US National Security...
View ArticleJUST SAY NO
September 6, 2014 Washington DC – “We’ve got to stop ISIS…al-Qaida…Syria’s Assad…Hamas…Hezbollah…Taliban …Shebab…the wicked Ruskis in Ukraine..those Yemeni Houthis…Iran… Sudan…Islamists in Libya and...
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 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 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 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...
View Article