With Afghani soldiers and police now reportedly stripping off their uniforms and abandoning their posts, and with (now former) President Ghani now reported as having fled the country, the former government […]
Afghanistan: Some Preliminary Thoughts
Belarus: The last act has not been written
A central feature of the events in Belarus is going more or less unreported: Fully one half of the Belarusian economy is through state-owned enterprises. This fact has given Belarus dictator Alexander […]
Russian bounties, WMD’s and big game hunters
When a big game hunter goes after a large and dangerous beast, he had better understand how that beast functions, or else the hunter can become the hunted. The same is true […]
Boris Johnson and the “demise of the nation state”
And so, another reactionary demagogue joins the ranks as Boris Johnson becomes head of state in Britain. He joins Donald Trump, Narendra Modi (India), Scott Morrison (Australia), Viktor Orban (Hungary), Jair Bolsonaro […]
Germany, the United States, and the new world (dis)order
Is Donald Trump an aberration in US history? Is it simply a matter of defeating him with fact, reason and reform (either less reform, as exemplified by Biden, Buttigieg, Harris and others; […]
Is Trump a “traitor”? A book review
Is Donald Trump a “traitor”, an agent of a rival foreign power (Russia)? That is the claim of the former federal prosecutor Kenneth McCallion in his recently published book Treason & Betrayal. […]
New Crisis in Gulf of Oman: What really happened? Where is it headed?
On Thursday, June 13 two oil tankers, one operated by a Japanese company and the other by a Norwegian shipping company, were attacked in the Gulf of Oman, off the coast of […]
Report from Britain: “Brexit rumbles on”
Ridhard Evans reports from Birmingham, Britain: Brexit rumbles on. Yet another last chance deadline missed. Same again next week. It doesn’t matter much materially, if Britain is a semi-detached EU member (which it […]
Money-Launderer-in-Chief Trump, the capitalist media and socialism: A timeline
Here is a timeline of how the mainstream US capitalist media has covered the issue of Trump’s financial ties with the Russian mafia capitalist class. This timeline is significant, because it provides […]
Trump and capitalist democracy: A perfect storm coming?
“For two years, they tried to tutor and confine him. They taught him history, explained nuances and gamed out reverberations. They urged careful deliberation, counseled restraint and prepared talking points to try […]