Europe Does Not Like America No longer in need of US military protection, many Europeans openly express their contempt WASHINGTON – In Italy, Alessandro Di Battista, a member of parliament who belongs to the opposition 5 Stelle, (5 Stars),...
Obama Talks About “Containing” ISIL – Not Enough, Eradicate This Cancer Containment worked with the Soviet Union, a super power with thousands of nuclear warheads. Now we are dealing with savage butchery performed by tiny entity WASHINGTON – The barbaric, made for the internet, execution of James Foley, a US journalist held captive by ISIL, is a sad...
Ferguson Killing Interpretations Expose America’s Racial Divide Blacks believe that White policemen harass them. Many Whites believe that most Blacks are criminals WASHINGTON – Because of the killing of Michael Brown, a Black teenager, by a White policeman, in Ferguson, (Missouri),...
US Should Use Abundant Domestic Natural Gas As Transportation Fuel Huge savings for the economy and for the American balance of payments WASHINGTON – In an otherwise thoughtful review of Obama’s energy policies, (WSJ, Obama’s Second-Term Energy Policy is Working, August 19, 2014),...
NATO Reaffirms Its Unity and Resolve – Yet Defense Budgets Are In Free Fall The Atlantic Alliance has become a talking shop. Without real resources, military capabilities are shrinking. A military alliance with no real armies? WASHINGTON – “ we will send an unmistakable message: Today and in the future,...
America Should Enable Iraq To Quickly Destroy ISIL If the US does not act, the Islamic State will become a powerful magnet for all Islamic radicals. This would be major trouble for the Region and for the West WASHINGTON – In politics symbolism is sometimes more powerful that substance. And this is certainly the case regarding the...
Clinton Is Reinventing Herself As A Hawk – Yet America Is Broke Whatever politicians may say about a more muscular foreign policy, the reality is that there is no money to fund it WASHINGTON – Hillary Clinton is doing her best to distance herself from the hesitant and timid foreign policy pursued by...
Black Victim Of Police Shooting In Ferguson Was A Suspect In A Robbery The narrative of the innocent bystander shot for no reason by vicious police officer is beginning to crack WASHINGTON – I have observed in a previous piece how in America a single episode of “White on Black”...
The Islamic State Should Be Destroyed, Immediately By now we should know that a political entity founded on a radical anti-Western ideology is a serious threat to America and the world WASHINGTON – In the 1990s the Clinton administration stupidly under estimated the threat posed by Osama bin Laden and...
In America Only “White on Black” Violence Resonates One Black teenager was killed by a White policeman in Ferguson, Mo. In Chicago hundreds of Blacks are victims of "Black on Black" violence WASHINGTON – In Ferguson, Missouri, a White policeman, (part of a mostly White police force in a mostly Black town),...