A huge brouhaha is being made over the courageous stance of 49’er quarter back Colin Kaepernick’s refusal to stand for the US National Anthem. Maybe those making this fuss should consider the […]
Along the Banks of the Oder River: Tranquility, Beauty… but also History
A bit of nature, and a bit of history.
Bernie Sanders in Oakland: What Wasn’t Said
Bernie Sanders spoke to some 30,000 people in Oakland, CA, on Memorial Day. Just a few days before he spoke, the noted journalist John Pilger wrote about the failure of all the […]
Book Review: “Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War”
(“Burning Country” by Robin Yasmin-Kassab and Leila al-Shami provides a vital description of the events surrounding the ongoiong Syrian revolution. Written from a ground-level point of view, it provides a glimpse of what […]
Al Shabaab Deaths and US Elections
When the capitalist class in a country sends that country into war, they always whip up a war fever, jingoist hysteria, mass hatred and blood thirsty attitudes. That blood lust only dies down […]
“F___ ISIS”?
Somebody I know responded to the killings in Paris with the two word comment: “F___ ISIS”. Here’s this writer’s response: I’m not sure what people mean when they say “f__k ISIS”. Do […]
Islamic State: The Rise of a Fascist Movement
Beheadings, mass slaughter, terrorist bombings — all of this is accompanying the advance of the Islamic State with its recent victories in Palmyra, Syria, and Mosul, Iraq. These are having repercussions around […]
“War with Iran is probably our best option”
Josh Muravchik has been called “maybe the most cogent and careful of the neoconservaitve writers on foreign policy” by the Wall St. Journal. So when he writes an article “War with Iran […]
Perspectives for War on Gaza
It is hard to see how Israel’s attacks on Gaza will not escalate. On the one side, it does not seem that Hamas can back down from its demand that the blockade […]
Iraq: “Things Fall Apart”
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; […]