Rudy Giuliani’s dangerous game: Jeb Bush, patriotic lies, and the truth about American exceptionalism
Our politicians are selling us fictions dressed up as patriotism. We need a new approach — and not another Bush “I do not believe that the president loves America. He doesn’t love you. And he doesn’t love me. He wasn’t…
For Greece Now, It’s Political and Economic Mess
There’s nothing wrong with buying time if that’s your need. And Greece’s daring new finance minister Yanis Varoufakis got some when he struck a deal in Brussels Friday to extend the European Union’s bailout for four months. The markets greeted…
Our embarrassing, servile media: Does the New York Times just print everything the government tells it?
The paper of record is carrying Washington’s water in its Ukraine reporting — all too believing, once again As the crisis in Ukraine lurches on, and as a media war is ever more prominent a feature of it, I think…
Saving Ukraine: Why the IMF’s Bailout May not Work
Could last week’s ceasefire in Ukraine, announced in Minsk Thursday after 17 hours of negotiation, have been any more dramatic? The German and French leaders, who presided in the Belarus capital, leapt into 11th hour action when Washington disclosed it…
Neoliberalism is our Frankenstein: Greece and Ukraine are the hot spots of a new war for supremacy
We should be considering the Greece and Ukraine crises together. If only the news media would allow that Europe’s confrontation with Greece, the West’s with Russia as the Ukraine crisis runs nearly out of control: Why is it more useful…
Ukraine’s Second Front: Obama and Kerry Are Now at War With Europe
The Obama administration appears to be spinning the Ukraine crisis out of control and doing serious damage to trans-Atlantic relations all at once. Tensions between Europe and the U.S. over how to address the year-old crisis in Ukraine have simmered…
The New York Times does what it’s told: What the media’s not telling you about our next likely foreign intervention
Drumbeat to arm Ukraine forces gets louder. Even Brookings and Times “liberals” are on board. That means danger… This column is a little bit about Ukraine, and we have brand-new things to think about as of this week. It is…
First Greece, Now Spain: Is Europe in for a Political Earthquake?
It took a mere six days for the election victory of the anti-austerity Syriza party in Greece to start ricocheting around Europe like a stray bullet in a concrete bunker. And already the fight between northern Europe’s austerians and their…
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