The Day I Met “Lucy” WASHINGTON – A few days ago, while in Addis Ababa, I was advised to visit the National Museum of...
Too Much Media Coverage For Isolated Terror Attacks WASHINGTON – In a perverse way, our hysteric fascination with each and every killing perpetrated in the West by...
George Osborne: Bring Debt Under Control WASHINGTON – In a WSJ op-ed piece, (How to Keep Proving the Economic Pessimists Wrong, December 15, 2014), George...
The World Believes That America Is Racist ADDIS ABEBA, Ethiopia – Traveling abroad allows the opportunity to look at America with the eyes of others. And this...
Low Oil Prices Is The Only Bit Of Good News For Most Western Countries WASHINGTON – Western financial and business publications are now celebrating the collapse of oil prices. This unexpected Christmas gift is...
The US National Debt Just Passed The $ 18 Trillion Mark — And Nobody Cares WASHINGTON – With almost no comment by national leaders, major media, economists, financial analysts or federal budget experts, the...
A Genuine Anti-Corruption Drive In China? WASHINGTON – The arrest in China of Zhou Yongkang, former head of domestic security and (even in retirement) still a...
African-Americans Feel Persecuted By White Police WASHINGTON – Perception, as we know, is reality. And, sadly, right now the large US African-American community (more than 40...
Keystone Pipeline Killed By Plunging Oil Prices? WASHINGTON – I suspect that the Keystone pipeline project is dead, or at least is in a coma. And...
The War On Terror And Its Consequences WASHINGTON – In a thoughtful piece in the NYT, (The Gift That Keeps Giving, December 3, 2014), Tom Friedman takes us...