
Grudging Foreign Aid
Yankee Go Home. Nato is Nazo. American trash culture. The graffiti adorn every wall, the contempt seems to be universal. America and Americans are perceived to be uglier than ever before. It borders on hatred and xenophobia. Are we talking about...

Nikkei Falls To 6 Week Low
Last Monday the Nikkei 225 index fell by 3.7% to a 6 week low of 13,261.82. It has fallen by 15% since hitting a five-and-a-half year high last May.
Written by Chris White
The fall was partly due to a collapse in Japanese shares on foot of weak...

US Boy Scouts of America To Recruit Gay Activists
The scouting organization Boy Scouts of America yesterday passed a resolution during a general assembly at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Centre in Grapevine, Texas, which ends the ban on open homosexuals joining the organization...

Ray Manzarek Dies
Sixties rock legend Ray Manzarek has died at the age of 74 in Rosenheim, Upper Bavaria, Germany.
Written by Chris White
According to Manzarek’s publicist Heidi Robinson-Fitzgerald the rhythmic guitarist who died of bile duct cancer passed...

‘Obama Must Stand Up To Erdogan’ ?
WASHINGTON—For a man who has spent the past 14 years as the only inmate of a Turkish island prison on the Sea of Marmara, AbdullahÖcalan knows how to make his voice heard. Last month, the longtime leader of Turkey’s outlawed Kurdistan...

Five Strategies for The U.S. in Syria
WASHINGTON In the western media’s telling, the civil war in Syria began and continues as a morality play, good versus evil, and for good reason. The regime headed for nearly a decade and a half by Bashar al-Assad has pursued policies of...

Xi Jinping’s First Great Test
WASHINGTON—In Washington, D.C. today, the White House was taken over by North Korean terrorists. With the help of a rogue Secret Service agent, the President and his senior advisors have been taken hostage. The terrorists’ leader, blaming...

The United States of Corruption
The attributes that best describe how America is governed are executive over-reach, legislative complicity, judicial partisanship and journalistic decadence.
The ruling elites of a now hopelessly corrupt political system are just one major blunder...