Monthly Archives: August 2016

It should never have been a question to support Mubarak, instead the Obama administration took the easy way out and backed the Muslim Brotherhood candidate Morsi, enraging regional allies that continued to support both U.S. regional war aims and Israeli … Continue reading →

My first mentor, the late great Dr. Luke William McCann told me how his tenure at Columbia Universities comparative literature department was riven to engage Russian literature, especially Tolstoy and Dostoevsky.  It seems the theological, moral unpinning of Russian aesthetics … Continue reading →

When pundits across the nation begin eulogizing Obama’s tenure, we need to remind ourselves how we got here, for 2016 needs to be a year of democratic reckoning. Beginning in 2008, a Democratic Senate class gave both Obama and Pelosi … Continue reading →

Thomas Carlyle’s overly weaned motif that history is boiled down to great men is in need of revision; for how does one make sense of Israel? When Irving Kristol arrived in Jerusalem to deliver a lecture titled ‘On the political … Continue reading →

Its isn’t hard to see that the Continent needs a vibrant U.K. more than London needs Berlin.  Although this isn’t easy to see now, any quick glance of the emerging domestic, geopolitical challenges reveals that the entire continent is managing … Continue reading →

The end of Ramadan saw Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei blame the U.S. for Islamic terror.  In their eyes, it is the west and its alliance regime responsible for the rise of terror attacks throughout Iraq, Istanbul, Bangladesh, Yemen and … Continue reading →

As the American regime moves to strengthen an alliance regime known as Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in the hope of building up both the industrial base of nation states nominally aligned to the west while pushing back on Beijing’s strategic naval ambitions … Continue reading →

Study China long enough and everything looks like farce.  That’s because the old dictum of history repeating itself becomes nauseating when filtered through the opaque maze of the Middle Kingdom.  What’s playing out now before the world is a work … Continue reading →

I initially saw the murder of Qandeel Baloch (real name Rauzia Azeem) as just that:  sanctioned murder.  But this case cannot be viewed in isolation.  The ‘honor killings‘ cannot be reconciled to the prohibition of murder as a violation of … Continue reading →