The time was the mid-60s in Saigon, in many ways the nadir of the American effort in Vietnam, in its way worse than the Embassy rooftop depaftures of 1975. Washington had staged a military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem, the only anti-Communist leader with credentials, then had him murdered. There was a revolving door […]
It’s become the cliché of clichés that Washington’s effort to stem the return of jihadists to power in Afghanistan and their seizing power in nuclear-armed neighboring Pakistan is The New Great Game. That is, it is successor to the extended and complex struggle between the Russian and British Empires in Central and South Asia throughout […]
It comes as a shock for those of us who believed the U.S. for decades has suffered mightily from the hubris and otherworldliness of the U.S. professional diplomatic corps to see what is happening now. The Obama Administration, in a fury to change what it perceives to be, particularly, the style and substance of the […]
Japan may be moving toward nuclear armaments as a result of the acceleration the Obama Administration has given to failures of American policy toward its principal ally in Asia. In a world where relatively minor powers such as North Korea and Iran — and perhaps even Syria and Myanmar [Burma] — are trying to get […]
In the centuries before our times, the Western nations called outstanding works in art and philosophy works of genius. Ironically, Russia had been producing creators and thinkers of genius until genius in art and philosophy had been killed before Stalin’s death (1953) by Stalin and his propaganda, according to which there was one source of […]
There is an opinion that the cause of slavery is the historic backwardness of the country. Actually, the cause of slavery is the same as that of other crimes: their impunity. Slavery is one of the gravest crimes, for the criminal robs his victim of everything except what is needed for a slave to carry […]
Before the 20th century, the history of the world was taught in the West as a single global story. The key concepts in the Western studies of history were “developed” and “underdeveloped” (countries). The West was mostly developed and the world outside the West mostly underdeveloped. The developed countries, where slavery was only a historic […]
Since the future of our world is likely to be decided by WW3, it may be of interest to predict its outcome. Owing to my obsession with freedom, I emigrated from Russia with my wife, our son, my mother, and several hundred strangers (the purpose of the owners of Russia was to create the fantastic […]
In a democratic country, everyone may have his or her own vision of the country’s political course after the election. Under Lenin, who died (1924) and was buried grandly, there had been no election, since elections are “tricks of bourgeois propaganda.” It was assumed that the “people” had considered Lenin’s power — their power. However, […]
The following is based on an article by Cliff Kincaid for Accuracy in Media. The liberal media have gone from blaming conservatives for the Arizona shootings to praising President Obama’s speech, in which he said nobody knows why the massacre happened. The media called the speech consoling and inspirational. “Obama’s speech likely bound for history […]