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 Battle of Algiers (1966)- A Road Map
This Is a film, not a documentary, and not a single drop of documentary news reel is involved, yet, most people when they see it, think that it is.
Watch this film and Study this...
If It Sneaks in the Night like a Raid, and Targets Like a Raid
It's a raid. Dammit.
And not a war.
A raid is designed to achieve a limited objective. Raids are not impetuous, born of anger or moral indignation...so no, Ivanka seeing children dead from gas did not...
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...
With “Skunk” We Could Have Ended This Rioting in Two Days
I've been writing about Antifa and Black Lives Matter since Obama, especially in ways private citizens can sneak around in the dark and dampen their spirits about wanting to go out on the public...
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...