Americas
US Media Sings A Happy Song & That is Why We Should Be Afraid
The understanding that the American press, both TV and print media, thrives on negativity is deeply embedded in the culture, so much so that the theme music to the popular 1990s American TV sit-com “Family Matters” began with the couplet…
A New Type of Polity?
I’m wondering whether in the political science lexicon there is a word to describe a polity in which suspicion, investigations and an unusually elaborate system of laws play a determining role. There have been a number of terms to describe the American system and its military-industrial...
Relax: Putin Has America Under Control
Pathetic. As I lift my eyes from reading a New York Post story about idiot Bernie Sanders, it’s the only word that comes to mind. In the make-believe world where sick American politics is run by an invisible moronic hand, Russians have become the fearsome foe again. And Bernie...