Response to Henryk A. Kowalczyk: A Different Take on Why Most Westerners Misunderstand Russia Henryk Kowalczyk was kind enough to read and respond to my recent article, Another Nice Mess They’ve Gotten Us into in Ukraine, even though he disagreed with its import. He pointed out that while Medium recommended…

Everybody Plays the Fool Sometime: Joe Biden’s Trip to Saudi Arabia Everybody plays the fool sometime There’s no exception to the rule Listen, baby, it may be factual, may be cruel I ain’t lyin’, everybody plays the fool… (J.R. Bailey, Rudy Clark, Ken Williams, 1972) How many times have you…

How the Corporate Media Conspired with Neil Gorsuch to Make Joseph Kennedy a Hero Let me ask you a question: How many times have you seen the above photo accompany a story about the recently decided Supreme Court case of Kennedy vs. …

Another Nice Mess They’ve Gotten Us into in Ukraine The famous catch phrase of the Laurel and Hardy comedy team was “Well here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into!” delivered by Stan Laurel to “Ollie” after they had gotten into some kind of slapstick debacle. The current war in…

How to Fight Inflation without Setting Off a Debt Bomb and Tanking the Economy The late Paul Volcker (1927–2019), who served as Chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987 has often been mythologized as the man who “broke the back of inflation” in the early 1980s. Often not…

New Rule: No More Bloviating About Who “Loves” or “Hates” America From Hollywood Elites Who Don’t Know What The Hell They’re Talking About A friend recently posted this New Rule segment from Bill Maher’s show Real Time, which appears to been originally broadcast around August 2021, on his Facebook…

How the Rising Power of Christian Nationalism Thwarts Gun Control in the U.S. Calls for stronger gun control have met strong reactions from gun rights advocates, often framed in terms of Americans’ constitutional, and perhaps even God-given, right to bear arms. Following the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in…

The Promises of Build Back Better (or Any Progressive Program or Reform at All) Have Been Shot Down on the Battlefield of Ukraine Fifty-five years ago, an increasingly radicalized Martin Luther King gave a speech at the Nation Institute in Los Angeles, CA. …

Is the United States Trying to Provoke Direct Warfare with Russia? Historically, when the United States government has desired to go to war, it has been very good at maneuvering the other side into firing the first shot or creating some other casus belli, to make it appear to be…