The Visitation
May 27, 2017 9:45 pm Leave your thoughts
There were two Donald Trumps this week. One of them was touring the Middle East, being feted everywhere. The second was in Washington, where he was battered from all sides
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Theresa May overcomes parliamentary disapproval and proposals to reach her goal of triggering Article 50
May 27, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughtsA cartoon by Cris Brooks
Silver Foxes
May 27, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Tally and also Ho! Sound the horn, unleash the hounds. We must arise and protest that flimsy Tory manifesto. Not because it goes too far. Nope, it just doesn't go far enough.
Syria: Trump’s Tomahawks, Double Standards – Using Chemical and Radioactive Weapons for Profit?
May 27, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
In a nauseating irony, exposed by the Palmer Report, Trump may have profited from the deaths he caused.
Reactive Mismeasures: The New Yorker and the “New” Cold War Propaganda (Part 3)
May 27, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
This is the third part of a paragraph by paragraph commentary on a recent article posing as journalism in the March 6, 2017 issue of The New Yorker
President Trump, a former entertainer, plays the part of the world’s jester, while cutting an evil clown grin
May 20, 2017 6:31 pm Leave your thoughtsA cartoon by Cris Brooks
Parliamentary Riffraff
May 20, 2017 5:17 pm Leave your thoughts When Adlai Stevenson ran for the presidency, he was told "Don't worry, every thinking person will vote for you." "But I need a majority," Stevenson famously replied.
If China Can Fund infrastructure with Its Own Credit, So Can We
May 20, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
While American politicians debate endlessly over how to finance the needed fixes and which ones to implement, the Chinese have managed to fund massive infrastructure projects all across their country, including 12,000 miles of high-speed rail built just in the last decade
My Palestinian Exile Is Not Theatre, Mr Fleisher. It Is Real Life
May 20, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
I am a Palestinian. Do not relegate me to some imperial design suiting Israel's ends and tell me to pack off to Jordan or anywhere other than where I was born and where my forefathers have lived for well over a thousand year
Russian Perspectives on US-Russian Relations
May 19, 2017 12:00 am Leave your thoughts
Russians see themselves being encircled by NATO. Of the 16 countries bordering Russia, eight have anti-Russia sentiments