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Headline: Beware Trump’s admiration for Putin, Xi and Erdogan Sub-headline: The US president has made little attempt to hide his respect for strongman leaders The fate of ‘The West’ was sealed with the ascendancy of Thatcher and Reagan, that gave … Continue reading →

Mr. Ferguson’s bellicosity is unslakable, and never a surprise. The Qassem Soleimani murder forces Ferguson to  resort to Walter Russel Mead’s Wall Street Journal celebration of ‘Jacksonian foreign policy’. And his ‘Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed … Continue reading →

This vulgar melodrama from Hisham Melhem, newspaperman and hireling of the The Arab Gulf States Institute, headed by the son of the CIA’s Frank G. Wisner and financed by nearly 4 Million budget. This has CIA Front Group written all … Continue reading →

Mr. Ganesh’s forgettable political chatter is rescued from the territory of the jejune by his attack on his literary/political better Gore Vidal . Not the ‘Sage of Amalfi’ but ‘The Patrician Rebel’ who was almost a big a snob as … Continue reading →

After a quick search for the proper historical analogy for the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, Mr. Ferguson provides the ‘correct analogy’, and dismisses any notion that this will lead to WWIII. But note that Ferguson echos the rhetoric of the … Continue reading →

  Headline: Middle East braced for backlash after killing of Qassem Soleimani Sub-headline: Fears grow that death of Iranian general will suck region into broader conflict https://www.ft.com/content/52a2fce4-2e0f-11ea-a126-99756bd8f45e   The Financial Times ‘reports’ on the Soleimani killing with the aid of … Continue reading →

Its an American tradition to ‘meddle’ in Iran. Recall Kermit Roosevelt? The particulars here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kermit_Roosevelt_Jr. And his book Countercoup, a political self-apologetic. Former senior adviser to the Obama administration and Council on Foreign Relations Iran expert, Ray Takeyh,[16] writing in 2014, states that “Contrary to Roosevelt’s … Continue reading →

Headline: Steven Pinker: what can we expect from the 2020s? Sub-headline: Look beyond the gloom of the daily headlines and the case for progress is still strong Dr. Pangloss’ essay  presents many compelling aperçus : On Human Nature as Determined … Continue reading →

Mr. Sullivan’s Anti-Trump hysteria seems to reach many denouements, here is part of his December 20, 2019 essay: Headline: What We Know About Trump Going Into 2020 … The two core lessons of the past few years are therefore: (1) … Continue reading →

The new anger Headline: 2019 in review: protest and populism in Latin America Sub-headline: Scandals, autocracy and anger at inequality stir unrest across the continent https://www.economist.com/the-americas/2019/12/25/2019-in-review-protest-and-populism-in-latin-america?fsrc=scn/tw/te/bl/ed/2019inreviewprotestandpopulisminlatinamericathenewanger Under the rubric of ‘The new anger’ needs further explication provided by the headline … Continue reading →