The West Is Caught In Middle East Chaos Terrorism is just one manifestation of religious wars that will have no quick end WASHINGTON – The Paris terror attacks lead to Syria, to the Arab Spring, to the Sunni-Shia conflicts, to al...
After The Paris Terror Attack: Focus On The Caliphate Eliminating this stronghold of jihadi power in Syria and Iraq would hurt morale and recruiting power WASHINGTON – Regarding the large-scale terror attack that just took place in Paris, the worst thing that we can...
EU Money To Stop African Migrants? The latest European plan is a sign of despair or stupidity WASHINGTON – The EU-Africa Summit just held in Malta was supposed to lead to some kind of understanding between...
Italy Still In Crisis, But Some Media Are In Denial Headlines about declining public debt are delusional or deceptive WASHINGTON – Sometimes I wonder where is the boundary between self-deception and willful manipulation. Are some media in free...
Thanks To The Central Banks, The Equity Bubble Is Getting Bigger Governments are not engaging in serious economic policy reforms. Central bankers keep pumping in more liquidity. What will happen next? WASHINGTON – Imagine this. There are lots of chronically sick patients in the hospital. Many of them are deteriorating...
Strange Conversations While In Africa Talking to strangers, you learn what they believe in LUSAKA (Zambia) – During business trips in far away places it is relatively easy to talk to strangers who...
Anti-Immigrant Europe Needs Immigrants Most European countries are facing a demographic crisis, with population declines WASHINGTON – I recently read a well crafted article about immigration in both Europe and the USA. It pointed...
Greece: Anti-Austerity Tsipras Will Implement Austerity Political confusion has been added to economic disaster and fiscal nightmare WASHINGTON – The sovereign people of Greece, in their wisdom, just decided to give another chance to Alexis Tsipras...
Pope Francis And His Anti-Capitalist Message Pro poor populism may win some new supporters. But is is based on flawed ideas WASHINGTON – Interestingly enough, Pope Francis is coming to America after visiting Cuba, (a true bastion of progress and...
In Italy High Unemployment Is Good News Major media look for a "silver lining" where there is none WASHINGTON – If you really, really insist on finding the proverbial “silver lining” in rather depressing news, here is...