In the wake of the passing of former President George H. W. Bush, and the reverence and solemnity that pervaded his state funeral, I was struck with a particularly paradoxical emotion.…
Mass protests, I have come to realize, are very complicated phenomena. They can give rise to a wide swath of interpretations about their purpose and legitimacy. Their initial thrust seems to…
More than once have I said that we live in interesting times. Somehow, events that are popping up in the domain of politics in recent days are bringing that statement…
A naval incident last Sunday in the Kerch Straight that separates Crimea from Russia has put Russia and the Ukraine on a collision course for conflict, and perhaps even war,…
We live in interesting times. With an unprecedented amount of information now readily accessible on portable electronic devices, and the ability to broadcast publicly from those devices is becoming a…
On the eve of Thanksgiving, New York State Senator Jose Peralta, 47, died tragically and suddenly of what is being called 'septic shock'. This New York Post article interviewed Peralta's wife…
Brazil’s recently elected president, Jair Bolsonaro, is often referred to as Brazil’s Donald Trump because he represents what many consider to be the far-right ideologies of nationalism, corporatism, and indifference toward the…
Most of us are familiar with the famed 'doublespeak' mottoes from George Orwell's classic 1984: "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength." For many of us, though, these…
The way it has been 'revealed' that the Department of Justice has secretly filed criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange reads like the latest chapter in the Deep State playbook to control…
Once a model of journalistic integrity and governmental decorum, the White House press conference seems to have devolved into a verbal street brawl of mutual disrespect between President Donald Trump and Mainstream…
