Saudi Fragility, and Why MbS is No Ataturk

March 23, 2018

One of the more intriguing news reports about the rapid rise to power of the 32-year-old Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman (MbS), concerns how he isolated his mother, placing her under house arr…

A Nasty US-China Fight is Inevitable. But It Needn’t be Terminal

March 23, 2018

Opinion

Since late February, three nor’easter storms in two weeks have pummelled the northeastern United States while the cold spell known as “the Beast from the East” froze much of Europe, dumping heavy snow…

Saudi Crown Prince Boasted That Jared Kushner was “In His Pocket”

March 23, 2018

Opinion

Until he was stripped of his top-secret security clearance in February, presidential adviser Jared Kushner was known around the White House as one of the most voracious readers of the President’s Dail…

Gaddafi’s Ghost Haunts Walking-Dead King Sarko

March 23, 2018

Opinion

NATO’s 2011 war on Libya was unanimously sold across the West as a necessary humanitarian operation against the proverbial evil dictator (Hillary Clinton: “We came, we saw, he died.”). Russia and Chin…

Hawks Resurgent in Washington

March 23, 2018

Opinion

One of the most discouraging aspects of the musical chairs being played among the members of the White House inner circle is that every change reflects an inexorable move to the right in foreign polic…

Has Russia Had Enough?

March 23, 2018

Opinion

This morning I watched a briefing the Russian Foreign Ministry provided for the diplomatic community where international toxic substances experts presented information concerning the alleged nerve age…

Civil Insurrection: A Modest Proposal for Ending the United States

March 23, 2018

Opinion

I see that a man named Sessions, apparently Washington’s Attorney General, threatens to unleash the coercive powers of the federal government against the state of Colorado, his reason being that he do…

5 Things That Ethiopia and Myanmar’s Leadership Changes Have in Common

March 23, 2018

Opinion

An ordinary person might not think that Ethiopia and Myanmar have anything in common, but an analysis of their latest leadership changes shows that these two Chinese Silk Road partners actually share …