Sanctions: Smart or Stupid?
March 2015 is seeing the looming prospect of yet more economic sanctions being levelled by the western powers against both Iran and Russia. As of writing the European Union is preparing to introduce...
Category: Politics
A Global Food Deal for Milan’s Expo2015
In recent years, numerous experts from around the world (scientists, economists, politicians, environmentalists, sociologists), has been researching the great food paradoxes of our time, namely: With...
Republicans Ignore Selma, Continue Courting White America
The Selma marches constitute landmark events in American race relations. The marches were organized to protest the continuing voter disenfranchisement of the African-American community in Alabama....
Are the US and Israel Discontinuing Their Use of Toxic Weapons?
The Pentagon has recently stated that the U.S. Air Force's A-10 Warthog attack planes targeting the Islamic State group are not, and will not be, carrying ammunition which contains depleted uranium...
The Promise of a Kurdish-Turkish Peace Agreement
Given the horribly violent conflicts which have ravaged many countries throughout the volatile Middle East as of late one could hardly be blamed for having very little optimism regarding peace...
Net Neutrality Now! The FCC Broadband Ruling
The Federal Communications Commission has just issued a landmark ruling to reclassify broadband internet services as a utility, over the protests of industry giants like Comcast and AT&T, along...
Wherever the Enemy May Be: America’s Middle East Policy
U.S. President Barack Obama's comments to Congress the other day were very informative about his desire to be authorized in advance to instantly strike the Islamic State and its affiliates wherever...
The Imprisoned Al Jazeera Journalists Were Pawns in a Larger Game
After 400-days in jail in Egypt the Al-Jazeera journalists Mohamed Fahmy and Bahar Mohamed were released on bail. They still await a retrial regarding the charges leveled against them that they...
Bad and badder: Should Assad be cooperated with in the fight against ISIS?
Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has earnestly promoted himself as a useful ally in the fight against the Islamic State group in his country. Could he really be an imperfect, yet useful, ad-hoc ally...
Introducing Miss Bunting, the Socialist at Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey is back in the States, showcasing the winds of change sweeping across upper class British society. The show becomes more flawed with each season, spinning out more and more outlandish...