Post-Modern Post-State Post-Identity Crisis

According to American Senator John McCain, "We are all Ukrainians now!" Of course in the United States it is of comparatively little significance what you actually are while of eminent importance what someone calls you; we having long since given up...

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Freedom for Me, but Not for Thee

Initially, I was gratified to learn that Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, was unafraid to take on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) over the issue of domestic spying. The CIA is limited by its charter to stealing...

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Why Is the U.S. So Hypocritical in Foreign Policy?

In the current crisis over the Russian "invasion" of Crimea (is it an invasion when the population seems to want to be invaded and no violence occurs?), US protests seem rather hypocritical to the world. After all, recently, the United States has attacked or...

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Simple Stuff About Ukraine

On March 6th President Barack Obama signed an executive order "Blocking Property of Certain Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine" which permits Washington to seize the assets of any "United States person" who opposes current US policies...

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Is Putin the Irrational One?

Vladimir Putin seems to have lost touch with reality, Angela Merkel reportedly told Barack Obama after speaking with the Russian president. He is "in another world." "I agree with what Angela Merkel said ... that he is in another world," said Madeleine Albright, "It...

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From Iraq to Ukraine: A Pattern of Disaster

Eleven years ago this week the United States invaded Iraq – an event the late General William E. Odom rightly called the biggest strategic disaster in US military history. The decade since that catastrophe proves one thing about US policymakers: they’ve changed their...

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