Yesterday the new SYRIZA-led Greek government, elected on an ‘anti-austerity’ platform, presented its proposals for an alternative debt management regime to an emergency meeting of Eurozone finance ministers in Brussels. Various options continue to be…
Category: Israel
On Twitter this week, someone asked the question “Why do people doubt science?” Accompanying the tweet was a link to an article in National Geographic that implied people who are suspicious of vaccines, genetically modified…
The “Internet of Things” (IoT) and Smart Grid technologies will together be aggressively integrated into the developed world’s socioeconomic fabric with little-if-any public or governmental oversight. This is the overall opinion of a new report…
The Nobel Peace Laureate President Barack Obama, the guy who once campaigned claiming one US war — the one against Iraq — was a “bad” one, and the other — against Afghanistan — was a…
“I urged him to bomb…” If reason and justice prevailed in this country, you’d think that the recent series of articles in the Washington Times concerning the U.S.-NATO attack on Libya in 2011 would torpedo Hillary Clinton’s presidential prospects. Clinton as U.S. Secretary of State at that time knew that Libya was no threat to the U.S. She knew that Muammar Gadhafi had been closely cooperating with the U.S. in combating Islamist extremism. She probably realized that Gadhafi had a certain social base due in part to what by Middle Eastern standards was the relatively equitable distribution of oil income in Libya.
A Dispatch from Pyongyang: September 8 2012 – September 15 2012 I’ve felt like landing at the other planet where I were allowed ‘living off the grid’ a short period of time (8 days) in the…
Russia is in a dilemma. How can it work through a peaceful settlement over the Ukraine conflict – and avoid a wider, more terrible war – when it is having to communicate with imbeciles and…
Notice the wording in this Reuters headline: Syrian government launches offensive against rebels in south. For Reuters Syria now has – again – a “government”, and not a “regime” as Reuters had labeled the Syrian…
Mr Assad denied that his forces had dropped barrel bombs indiscriminately on rebel-held areas, killing thousands of civilians, and dismissed as propaganda a statement by the UN that his government often blocks access to besieged…
Lying and/or effacing the truth is the habit that’s ensconced in the system U.S. officials have a very bad habit, a disgusting habit, an evil habit, of looking the other way whenever they encounter morally…