Putin Deployed 50,000 Russian Close To Ukraine, Obama Sent 600 US Paratroopers To Poland And The Baltic States WASHINGTON – With cause, The Economist worries about America’s determination to stand up against the bad guys. (Putin in...
The Kiev Provisional Government Cannot Win, All By Itself, Against Putin WASHINGTON – The difference between the failed separatist fight that Chechnya started and lost several years ago and the...
Benghazi Tragedy: Incompetence and Callousness WASHINGTON – It has hard to get the general public to focus on the attack on the US Consulate...
Almost Impossible To Discuss Poverty and Race In America WASHINGTON – Old and encrusted socio-economic problems related to race issues have become intractable in America. In large part this...
On Signal Hill, In Newfoundland, Marconi’s Legacy St. JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLAND, (a few years ago) – The young professor took me for a visit in the afternoon....
China’s Government Manipulating Official Statistics? WASHINGTON – A few days ago a major US newspaper had yet another story on China’s economic slowdown. Yes, China...
Beyond Symbolic Gestures, The West Will Not Act To Help Ukraine Regain Control Over Its Eastern Provinces WASHINGTON – By now the provisional government in Kiev should have understood that, beyond symbolic gestures, the West will...
Walking By Ford’s Theatre, Where Lincoln Was Shot WASHINGTON – After my meeting I decided to walk to Chinatown, to an old emporium where I bought a...
The Ukrainian Government Cannot Win, All By Itself, Against Russia WASHINGTON – Vladimir Putin is winning in his ruthless and perhaps crazy effort to regain control over at least a...
In Newfoundland, Where Churchill And FDR Met During WWII NEWFOUNDLAND, Canada, (a few years ago)- Looking outside, at the Ocean on that windy day, I thought again about my...