Hail The New King

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This exciting week, the man who would be king of everything made his first pronouncements.  Greenland should be purchased by the United States.  Canada should sell itself to the US. The Gulf of Mexico should

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Who Murdered Savimbi?

Why did President Joe Biden visit the African nation of Angola in the dwindling hours of his presidency?  No other US president has visited this resource-rich southern African nation. Biden was just

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Death of Syria

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What is clearly a joint US-Israeli plan to remake the Mideast map is now well underway.  Changes will be seismic.  The Biden administration, by now almost totally controlled by pro-Israel neocons, is making its final

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What’s Going On In Syria?

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Syria is the mother of all mysteries.  Even the Romans couldn’t figure out all the intrigues, plots, factions, coups and assassinations that were common there.  Nor could they understand or deal with its hotbed of

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Pakistan: Slow Motion Train Wreck

Pakistan is the world’s most important Muslim nation.  It has 251 million people, nuclear weapons, the world’s sixth largest armed forces, intelligent, capable people, vast lands and major sources of water.  Yet

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Will Trump Go After The War Party?

In 54 BC, Marcus Licinius Crassus, a rich, ambitious Roman businessman, got himself named governor of the wealthy province of Syria.  Crassus had been sharing power in Rome with Pompey and Julius Caesar.

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No Bad Peace; No Good Wars

This week we observe the end of the `War to End All Wars,’ also known as World War I. The memorial week will be filled with the usual platitudes and patriotic guff designed to

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