The Shotgun and Rewriting History
From an old grizzled veteran (my age) named Mike, who contributed a lot of wisdom to our Veterans'Tales site for a few years:
You're asleep when you hear a thump outside your bedroom door. Half-awake, and nearly ...
In Celebration of the Neocons
In 2004, awaiting a vote in the newly liberated Iraq, their first democratic vote ever, I wrote my first published essay, "Prospects for Democracy in the Middle East", a 5500 word opus, and a pro-Iraq...
Christianity and the Changing Face of Islam since 2001
I published a short reminder in 2001 about the generational differences between the people who had to confront the killers of 9/11 and those who had to deal with the alliance who attacked Pearl Harbor and...
Trade Brinksmanship, not Trade War, versus Globalism
"Trade War" is a term the enemies of Donald Trump use to denigrate his proposals for restoring a balance to American trade policies.
Only it's not "trade war" but trade brinkmanship, which, as it was first used to define...
20 Year Olds in Iran keep a Freedom Torch Alive Thought Extinguished 40 Years...
20 year-old Iranians are taking to the streets demanding a return of freedoms that were taken away almost 40 years ago, long before they were born.
How did they know? Who told them?
Meanwhile, many of...
The Russian-Ukrainian Village, Evening Bells
In the 1960s I earned a minor in Russian Studies at university which interestingly enough, provided me with a lot of background to what I would observe when I visited Ukraine and central Russia in 1991 and 1992, when the USSR was finally cashing...