Spy World
“In fact, it’s too good. It is so good in fact that after I pay the check, I’ll go straight into the kitchen and...
The Vietnam War: Riding The Tiger – the problem with Ken Burns’ Vietnam documentary
“The most ominous danger we face comes from the marginalization and destruction of institutions, including the courts, academia, legislative bodies, cultural organizations and the...
David Ray Griffin (1939-2022). The Man and His Work: A Synopsis
How big can a mind be?
If we’re lucky, we have threescore and ten years — in a very big wide world, full of history...
Making Sense of a Potentially Nuclear Conflict
(Also published at substack.com)
In the ongoing daily struggle to make sense of the conflict, here are my current overall conclusions as to what is...
The End of Pluralism and the Decline of Soft Power
“Hitler, Stalin, and Mao all possessed a great deal of soft power in the eyes of their acolytes, but that did not make it...
Bellingcat attacks Bonanza Media
Editors' Note: Controversy over the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 has persisted with the West and its allies blaming the pro-Russian separatists in...
The Tragedy of Yulia Skripal
Somewhere, isolated from the rest of the world, nerve agent victim Yulia Skripal recently turned 40. She miraculously survived her alleged exposure to a...
Understanding Aaron Bushnell’s Suicide Outside the Israeli Embassy
Introduction
On Sunday 25 February, US Air Force serviceman Aaron Bushnell, 25, set himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington DC. He did...
Assessing NATO’s “Strategic Advantage”
In a recent posing to my Substack account (Empire, Communication and NATO Wars), I made reference to a Quincy Institute paper that argued that...
Triumphalism, pro-NATO and pro-Russian
Those of us who began chronicling the current NATO proxy war with Russia over Ukraine from the launch of the Russian SMO in February...