Month: April 2016

Do you ever ask yourself “How Big a Success Is the Democratic Revolution in Burma?” Well, maybe you should. That’s the question Joshua Kurlantzick tackles in a review of three books that focus or touch on the...

Ordinarily, I’d leave ex-wives out of a political debate, but Ivana Trump wants to be heard and she’s been talking to the New York Post. I doubt what she had to say will be particularly helpful to her ex-husband....

This diary’s focus is on Ukraine and its current leader president Poroshenko because he is the poster child for the US to battle oligarchs and corruption ahead of close cooperation with the European Union and the...

At the Clark County DEM convention? The facts remain somewhat murky, but a few things are clear.  Background: On 2/20/16 NV voters gathered for the 2016 DEM presidential caucuses.  The caucuses were open to any...

HILLARY CLINTON: When people make these kinds of claims, which now I think have been debunked –Actually the Washington Post said “Three Pinocchios”– and the New York Times analyzed it. Independent...