The ‘Reverse Nixon’ and New Nero: Where to Focus After the Trump-Putin Summit
It would be too easy to simply jump on all of the stereotypical bandwagoning going on across most of the world’s media (especially the...
The Secret Gender plague: How The World’s Men Hate Women
In the now famous and well-recognized #MeToo era in America, the call to eliminate sexual harassment in the workplace and beyond has brought much...
Putin and Kim vs. American Media: Controlling Reality rather than the Narrative
An area of particular fascination for me has been what can be loosely called ‘controlling the narrative.’ In almost every sphere of life it...
The Depth of Taboo: Social Issues in South Asia
Rarely does a geopolitical handbook also make such large and important contributions to uncomfortably critical social issues. This handbook is that rare example. The...
No WWIII: The Odd Logic of the New Fake Cold War and the Curious Reality of Feather Pillow Proxy Wars
There has been an awful lot of noise and blowing wind of late across all forms of social media about an impending WWIII between...
The Deep State Misdiagnosed: How the US Strategically Influences Global Power
This piece explores the controversial thesis that the United States strategically and consistently maneuvers against the emergence of regional hegemons across the globe. Whether...
Jihad Selfie: The Evolving Strategy of Homegrown Radical Recruitment
In February, an eye-opening new report was released by the Program on Extremism at The George Washington University. This 116-page report, The Travelers: American Jihadists in Iraq and...
Independent Kurdistan: The Wretched and the Damned
On September 25, 2017, the semiautonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq held an independence referendum to determine the future of its quest...
The Perils of President CEO: 7 Reasons Why Business Icons Don’t Make Great Presidents
Let us first start with this declaration: this is not a diatribe against Donald Trump. Rather, it is a tsk, tsk, tsk to the...
The Real Estate Cold War: Russia and America Fighting Over “Parity”
This past week the United States informed the Russian Federation that it was going to immediately close the Russian consulate in San Francisco as...