The Debt Ceiling Clash Is Political Theatre
by Paolo von Schirach — WASHINGTON — On the surface, it looks like a spirited fight over matters of...
Tag: US Politics
Win-Win Globalization Was a Dream
By Paolo von Schirach — WASHINGTON — On February 24, at the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine,...
On January 6 The Unthinkable Was Done
By Paolo von Schirach– WASHINGTON— The efforts to precisely determine the intent of all who participated in the assault...
Afghanistan Was Lost Long Ago
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – If we go beyond the hysterics, accusations and posturing that followed the...
America Still in Trouble
By Paolo von Schirach – WASHINGTON – According to rosy pre-election predictions made by the Democrats and an army...
Why Mass Shootings? Heavy Political Rhetoric, Psychopaths, and too many Weapons
WASHINGTON – The El Paso slaughter stunned America. It is human nature that when something completely out of the...
Is There A Democratic Party Policy Agenda? The opposition party strategy seems to sit and wait for the Republican Party implosion
WASHINGTON – If you watch most of the cable news channels these days you get a steady diet of...
Aldous Huxley: The Political Candidate Sold On TV As Deodorant With the advent of TV no more truth aabout anything
WASHINGTON – “Three years before Kennedy’s inauguration, Aldous Huxley argued in Brave New World Revisited that the modern methods...
When Moral Behavior Is Based Purely On Convenience Stay loyal to your friends, because in the long run it pays
WASHINGTON – A retired elder statesman came up with wise advice for President Obama. He just wrote that, many...
The World Is In Crisis, But Obama Is Focused On The November Mid-Term Elections Americans give bad grades to Obama on foreign policy. But International issues will not influence how they will vote in November
WASHINGTON – If Obama were an American statesman, then he would get seriously engaged in the foreign crises, from Gaza To...