Politics
The Middle East: A boiling caldron of contradictions
The brilliant ideas of brilliant people survive the centuries and become relevant at the appropriate time for them. Many experts analyzing the current situation in the Middle East, in particular in Iraq, recall the Russian writer, Lev Tolstoy, who once...
America's Nazis in Kiev: "Russians are Subhuman"
Self-appointed prime minister of Ukraine, Arseny Yatsenyuk of the "Fatherland Party," referred to Russians as "subhuman," echoing the racist vitriol of Nazism Yatsenyuk and others in his regime subscribe to. It was a violent, armed...
Tony Blair, Boris Johnson, and Jim Dean bang heads
I am happy to report I got my first major political convert to endorse my crisis-in-leadership editorial theme drum I have been banging for over a month. I thank London Mayor Boris Johnson who brought a human sacrifice as his first contribution to the cause, a surprise...