Twenty years ago posing this question would have seemed absurd. The United States was fully self-confident about its position as the sole surviving superpower in the world which faced virtually no obstacles or objections to its performance of “public goods” that brought order to the world either through the liberal international institutions that it helped…
The late Zbigniew Brzezinski was the mastermind of the Afghan “jihad”. It was under his auspices that the United States created “mad mullahs” to unleash “terror” against the Soviet regime in Kabul. When the deed was done, and the Red Army packed its bags and went home, the US abandoned Afghanistan. Pakistan, on the other hand,…
During Donald Trump’s successful campaign to become President of the United States, both Trump and his then adviser Steve Bannon spoke a great deal about the following: –Increasing exports –Increasing the sales of US made products domestically –Increasing employment –Increasing the wages of the domestic workforce –Seeing trade in economic rather than ideological terms Now,…
There were many disturbing moments in Steve Bannon’s CBS interview, but perhaps the most harrowing for sensible viewers was his comparison of the Trump team to the gang in the Hollywood Western the Wild Bunch. Bannon is the only truly powerful aide to resign from the Donald Trump White House. He gave his first extended…
Google has taken the unprecedented step of burying material, mostly from websites on the political right, that it has deemed to be inappropriate. The problem, however, is that the world’s largest search engine is a left-leaning company with an ax to grind. Let’s face it, deep down in our heart of hearts we knew the…
The showdown with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is a seminal event that can only end in one of two ways: a nuclear exchange or a reconfiguration of the international order. While complacency is always unwarranted, the first seems increasingly unlikely. As no less a global strategist than Steven Bannon observed about the possibility of a…
