Month: January 2018

G W F and McCarthyism In A Digital Age – Part 1

[Cross-posted from EuroTrib] Amazing how widespread the anti-Russia rhetoric has become since 2008, the year of the second Orange Revolution in the Ukraine and the Georgia War with Russia started by Saakashvili. It was already...

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Democracy Unplugged, Regime Change and Project Alamo

The digtal revolution created by the Trump campaign was similar to the US tech giants supporting the rebels in the Arab uprising in 2011. Google Maps, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter provided critical means of communication and...

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Brownback to Protect the Religiously Oppressed

It’s telling that Sam Brownback needed the tie-breaking vote of the vice-president in order to be confirmed to his new position as ambassador for international religious freedom. The Kansas governor couldn’t muster a...

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Holocaust Nakam or Avengers

Plot to murder 6 million Germans – Abba Kovner head of group called Nakam or Avengers. Plan was to add poison to the water supply in major West-German cities München, Nuremberg, Hamburg and Frankfurt. The British...

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How Trump Lowers All Republican Standards

Much like Sarah Palin, Trump’s worst crime will end up being getting the GOP to adjust its standards to make it possible to defend him. There are two examples of this in the news today. One comes from Tony Perkins, the notorious...

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