UKRAINE, PIMPED-OUT, SHOT-UP AND LEFT TO BLEED

I’ve been telling you for a while that despite America’s, uh, polite meddling for regime change in the name of freedom, hardly anyone gives a rat’s butt-rape about Ukraine as a republic. Its geographic location, proximity to US rival Russia, as well as its possibility of being another source of consumers and low-cost laborers for […]

IRAQ AND UKRAINE – PRIORITY PROBLEM OR OBSESSION?

What happened to the good old days when America can efficiently pull-off a regime change without a massive amount of suspicion or immediate backlash? Has America lost its magical touch for revolution, or is it excessively blinded by the prize it really wants and has become tactically dumb as a result? And is Russia’s involvement […]

THE IRAQ MADNESS CONTINUES

Of course I laughed after I heard the US is upset about Syria President Bashar al-Assad ordering his air force to bomb ISIS positions in Iraq. This new development means the US and Syria are on different sides in the latter’s civil war, but are effectively on the same side in Iraq’s civil conflict. […]

CONFUSED ABOUT KERRY’S EGYPT VISIT?

Let’s quickly replay what happened in Egypt during the past four years and four months, leading up to US Secretary of State John Kerry’s recent talk with Egypt’s President, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The US supported a brutal Egyptian strongman in the form Hosni Mubarak for decades… …then turned around and requested that Mubarak step […]

STAND DOWN, RANGEL. FOR HARLEM’S SAKE.

Through my lens, these are the Democratic Congressional options for Harlem and Bronx primary voters: a long time situational sellout whose margin of public acceptance has dropped to such precarious lows where he now resorts to fake telephone conversation comedy sketches during debates; a New York State legislator who has never been tested on the […]

WANT HELP WITH ISIS, IRAQ? IT WILL COST YOU.

Partially driven by my desire to protect the innocent, I’ll describe Iraqi Prime Minister Noriel al-Maliki’s current existential problem with ISIS by telling a semi-fictional story. I knew this Guy who opened a restaurant with the help of some People from Brooklyn. A disagreement resulted in the Guy asking the People from Brooklyn to leave the […]

DON’T SLEEP ON THIS CHINA-RUSSIA GAS DEAL

Don’t let the mainstream media downplay the 30-year, USD 400 billion natural gas deal signed this week between Russia’s Gazprom and China’s CNPC. This is a big, friggin’ deal, and we may be witnessing the start of a long-term inflexion of how the game of international politics will be played and won. Or […]

POST-STERLING AMERICA, OR LONG LIVE CHICKEN WING POWER

While you celebrate another victory in the name of post-racial America after the NBA’s lifetime banishment of racist Los Angeles Clippers owner, Donald Sterling, I want to remind you of a 38-year old racial incident that follows a familiar pattern. The late Earl Butz, US Secretary of Agriculture during the Nixon and […]

“ONLY DOLLARS GOT THE WEIGHT”

My thoughts about American democracy and Freedom of Speech’s current state after the Supreme Court recently obliterated long-standing campaign donation limits can be summarized with one sentence. The more money you have, the more freedom you get. Look at WaPo‘s article about the McCutcheon case if you want a longer explanation… song currently stuck […]

MLK – REMEMBERING THE KING OF LOVE

Nina Simone’s The King of Love is Dead – song about the April 4, 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. – is one of the most emotionally-stirring tunes I ever heard. Note that Nina didn’t say the King of Racial Hatred is Dead, or the King of Violent Revolution is Dead, […]