Author Archives: stephenkmacksd

@Arabella raises not just an interesting point, by focusing upon the failure of America’s political/technocratic class to take the necessary action to save 200,000 lives. Not in any way a small matter? What can this New York Times news story … Continue reading →

One of the central powers of TTP was this very ‘ rise of extraterritoriality’ : For example, Corporations could bring suits against its signatories, via a claim of  ‘loss of profit’, for enforcing pollution laws against trucks, that didn’t meet … Continue reading →

In a Political World, that is slipping out of the control of the American Empire, and its invasions, wars e.g. white phosphorus in Fallujah, Agent Orange in Vietnam, the collection of NGO’s well funded foreign subversions, garnished with a heaping … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh’s usual political feuilletonism devolves into a long commentary on Joe Biden’s mundanity, as his saving grace, in the the Age of Trump.  But first, just to clarify, Delaware is a Tax Haven: Headline: How Delaware Thrives as a … Continue reading →

This newspaper provides space for a Bill and Melinda Gates press release.  No surprise! Oligarchs and their apologists, this newspaper, stumble over themselves to kow-tow to this ‘Man of Vision’. Gates’ answer to the AIDS Crisis is the circumcise every … Continue reading →

My inquiry into the history and belief’s of Christianity began here:  James J. O’Donnell does not write hagiography, he narrates the life, times and the thought of Augustine, without the destructive excess baggage of ‘Faith’.   Karl Barth’s commentary on ‘The … Continue reading →

What more important political actor than a Brookings ‘fellow’ to add to the Mythology that Putin is ‘The New Stalin’ : such is Putin’s ‘evil’, in the patois of  Political Theology, that all these mysterious poisonings- where are the Skripal’s … Continue reading →

The Second American Civil War is just evolving as the ‘norm’ , in our country, with the bad actors The Proud Boys, the Boogaloo Bois, and the Political Class’ favorite Antifa– Mr. Luce ‘conjures’ QAnon, as the epitome of what … Continue reading →

In America, the  two houses of Congress, The Senate and the House of Representatives, not to speak of the Electoral College, are the checks against ‘too much democracy’ of The Founders. The Good Grey Mr. Walter Lippmann advocated a cadre … Continue reading →

 Ms. Foroohar, in her essay,  on the deteriorating relations between China and Trump, offers some thoughts on the fate of Neo-Liberalism, or have I misread?  Headline: China wants to decouple from US tech, too Sub-headline:Washington’s restrictions have only sped Beijing’s … Continue reading →