Trump Flump, Why ISIS, and States in Constant War
Smart politicians kiss babies with a smile and are polite to old ladies. No one wants to appear a bully or a boor. That...
Obama’s operation choke point
In yet another dereliction of President Obama’s duties to the American people, and in another display of his complete obeisance to American Plutocratic Elitist...
Trump’s foot’n mouth disease
One of the most memorable lines on George W. Bush is due to Ann Richards, a former Texas governor, who passed away in 2006....
Why Socialism can’t work in America
Everyone who has a conscience wants some type of wealth redistribution, income equality, or minimum wage, so that everyone has the bare necessities of...
The Transformation of America into a “de facto” Apartheid State
The difference between “de jure” and “de facto” legislation is not one of semantics – if a law is discriminatory on its face, it...
The Closing of the American Mind
In 1987, Dr. Bloom wrote a scathing critique of how society has failed democracy in the perennial book, The Closing of the American Mind....
Big guns at the Democratic Convention … and a Bombshell
It was the lull between conventions and then a bomb was dropped by Wikileaks. Who would have known the first day of the Democratic...
Waging whack-a-mole: US Counter-terrorism operations across Africa
“They’re involved in Algeria and Angola, Benin and Botswana, Burkina Faso and Burundi, Cameroon and the Cape Verde Islands. And that’s just the ABCs...
The US Election Saga Continues – The Republican Convention
The festival of demagoguery, jingoism and cult of personality is over, and seldom has the public been deluged with such a combination. Is it...
Canaries in a coal mine: Erdogan coup and a tale of foreboding to the people of U.S & EU
Various and countless articles are being written about the Recep Tayyip Erdogan “Coup D’Etat” in Turkey last week, wherein supposedly the government was under...