NEVER MIND O’REILLY…IT’S OUR ANXIETY FACTOR STUPID (…which is bugging the hell out of everyone!) The world seems to be stuck these days on a never-ending carousel ride of economic and political instabilities, along with a host of petty and
Syria
A RISING TIDE OF POPULISM… (…as a highly infectious form of political botulism) Whenever there’s a massive surge of collective discontent with the status quo in any society, that discontent is often expressed in several ways. Unfortunately those ways rarely
PEACE ON EARTH…GOODWILL TO ALL… (…are in very short supply and have become a forgotten ideal) The recent events in Berlin, Germany, and in Ankara, Turkey, along with the barbarities going on in Aleppo and other parts of Syria, all
RESOLVING THE SYRIAN SITUATION (with some perspectives on how best to salvage something from it) After nearly five years of civil conflict during which several hundred thousand have been killed, millions displaced as refugees, and the rise of extremism in
A RUSSIAN-AMERICAN DODGEM BUMPER-CAR DEAL FOR SYRIA… (…allowing each to bomb whoever they want…while making sure neither ends up in each other’s rear-view mirrors…) The recent Russian-American agreement to set up operating protocols for their respective air strike operations in
ARE WE NOW PIMPING FOR PUTIN’S PUTAISSMO IN SYRIA… (… just because we really don’t want to be more involved than we are already?) By openly increasing Russia’s presence in the Syrian civil war, Putin has made an opportunistic whore’s
TURKEY IS NOW FORCED TO WALK THE LINE… (…as that hydra-headed wildfire of conflicts closes in on its borders….) After almost five years of sitting on the sidelines in its attempts to avoid getting sucked into the vortex of the