NYT Op-Ed Calls ISIS “A Militant Group” – Talk About Understatement
WASHINGTON – Charles M. Blow, NYT columnist, in an article, (Obama and the Warmongers, August 31, 2014), points out...
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Federica Mogherini Gets Top EU Foreign Policy Job – Inconsequential Position To A Rookie
WASHINGTON – Federica Mogherini, age 41, since February 2014 Italy’s (youngest ever) Minister of Foreign Affairs, has just been appointed High...
UK Will Lead A New NATO Rapid Reaction Force – Should Putin Take Notice?
WASHINGTON – As a response to Putin’s aggression in Ukraine, NATO will do…well, not much. Most of the reactions so...
Italy Is Slowly Sinking – Years Of Recession Or Zero Growth – Unemployment At 12.6%
WASHINGTON – Mario Draghi, the President of the European Central Bank (ECB) deserves praise for his ability to save...
Ukraine Should Admit Defeat – Let The Russians Take Over The East
WASHINGTON – The situation in Eastern Ukraine is getting worse. It is now clear that Putin’s Russia has intervened directly in the...
Germany’s Green Energy Revolution Based On Belief, Not Economics
WASHINGTON – An interesting WSJ story, (Germany’s Expensive Energy Gamble, August 27, 2014), provides a good illustration of top-down...
Ukraine Cannot Win Against Russia – Give Up The East
WASHINGTON – Despite its (surprising) military successes against the pro-Russia rebels, there is no way that Ukraine can “win” this Moscow-funded civil...
Italy Overwhelmed By Immigrants From North Africa
WASHINGTON – Regarding the constant flow of illegal immigrants from North Africa into Italy and to a lesser degree Spain, the...
Perceptions and Misperceptions About Black Crime And White Police Brutality
WASHINGTON – The killing by a White police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, of a Black young man, 18-year-old Michael Brown, ...
Putin Destroyed All Notions Of A Peaceful Post-Cold War Europe
WASHINGTON – In an almost casual way Russian President Vladimir Putin trashed each and every agreement that supposedly guaranteed...