Having recently read Yani Varoufakis’s book, The weak suffer what the must, a recounting of his five months as finance minister of Greece during the Greek financial crisis, I found that the origin […]
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The Anglosphere’s Neo-McCarthyites and Mimetic Animosity
The rise and rhetoric of the Neo McCarthyites is now widespread in both the USA and its sycophant in Europe, the UK. Hardly a day passes without a smear on Russia […]
EUREXIT
I believe Brexit was good in that it shook up the bureaucratic EU and is forcing Brussels to reexamine their entire wonky structure. I believe a solution could be found to accommodate the […]
Postscript 5, US Foreign Policy Post 2016 Elections
The gladiatorial contests for presidential nominees are drawing to a close, barring a Republican convention coup in July, and foreign policy positions are now becoming somewhat clearer With Clinton and Sanders the […]
The US, Threatened or The Threat
How the US public regards potential threats and how the rest of the world sees them stand in stark contrast. How the US public thinks about international issues is dictated almost entirely by […]
The US, the UK and Brexit
Obama’s foray into Europe lecturing, hectoring and threatening the citizens of the UK to remain in the EU invited the deserved scorn he received by the Eurosceptics. With the threat that the […]
Postscript 4, US Foreign Policy Post 2016 Elections
With the 2016 US Elections now, thankfully, only seven months from finish, the foreign policy positions of several candidates are becoming clearer. Rubio, the capo of the hawks has been shot down leaving […]
A Weekend Summary of Unresolved Global Issues
Amongst the many global issues still pending resolution here are a few to consider The Ukraine/Russia I think the West may be coming to their senses about the Ukraine. The EU and […]
Postscript 3, US Foreign Policy Post 2016 Elections
This Postscript offers little dramatic change to previous ones in content, merely an affirmation of the foreign policy of the two parties. While a presidential nominee for the Democrats seems to be edging […]
Syria, The 21st Century Great Game
The Great Game once described the battle between the British and Russian Empire for supremacy in Central Asia in the 1800s. Today’s Syrian Great Game has multiple players who could develop the cold […]
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