11 January 2023

Wars and more wars: the sorry U.S. history in the Middle East

The American republic morphed well over a century ago into an empire of many endless wars. With U.S. troops still in Syria, Iraq, Somalia and numerous African countries, with over 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and a war budget of roughly one trillion dollars a year, its no surprise that one of our main exports is weapons and that arms merchants call the shots in Washington. Presidents come and go, but the wars dont: they drag on. And when a president does manage to extract the country from one of these military quagmires, as Biden did in...

23 November 2022

The coming Sinophobic calamity

Neither the red wave nor the blue one materialised in the latest election, which removes some of the impetus for the coming congressional Sinophobic rampage.

23 September 2022

The contrast between China and the US as the Covid debacle rolls on

The U.S. represents 4% of the worlds population, 25% of global covid deaths, 23% of covid cases and 35% of all Monkeypox cases....The U.S. is a public health fiasco.

29 August 2022

The Biden-Trump persecution of Julian Assange

For a good while one could blame Trump for the prosecutorial monstrosity perpetrated on journalist Julian Assange. But now its time for Trump to move over. The single worst assault on the first amendment and a free press in recent centuries is no longer solely his. Biden owns it. Biden could end this state persecution of a journalist today, if he felt like it. A persecution that a U.N. expert has called torture. A persecution that could easily lead to Assanges death.