Month: March 2014

. Recent ‘people’s revolts’ has made me revisit my diary and update its content with today’s events in the Ukraine and Venezuela. Military power has been replaced by soft power, the goal of...

I guess Fat Tuesday is a day when it’s important to win the Wingnut of the Day award, because Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin really went toe-to-toe today. Bachmann accused the American Jewish community of selling...

Understanding international finance and the Russian stock market is above my pay grade, but it appears that Putin’s decision to invade Crimea had an immediate and brutal effect on the Russian economy which forced him to...

I struggle to fight my way through our own propaganda and gain some kind of balanced awareness of the situation in Ukraine, but it’s hard to argue with the idea that Vladimir Putin is acting strangely and saying things...

I know the president has bigger problems (they always do) but he should find a way to implement a sensible federal marijuana policy, because what he has been doing is inadequate and has caused a lot of injustice. It’s...