Section: The Huffington Post (USA)
Closing the Border Is Voodoo Politics, and It Will Lead to Catastrophe
Imagine you had sold your house and valuable belongings to pay a dubious smuggler, whom you didn’t even know personally. And now imagine you had risked your own life and that of your loved ones to cross the Mediterranean in the middle of the darkest night. You would have defended yourself against brutal border patrol officers in Macedonia,...
Whacky U.S. Foreign Policy
The United States has by far the greatest military dominance in world history–both absolutely and relative to other great powers at its time in history–to back up its foreign policy. Such a potent, offensively oriented force is hardly needed for the defense of what the nation’s founders realized was perhaps the most...
Climate Apocalypse and/or Democracy
In the last week, a group of scientists and a prominent historian each predicted a climate apocalypse. The scientists, led by Ricarda Winkelmann of Germany’s Potsdam University, issued a paper finding that, if humans burn the rest of the world’s estimated fossil fuel reserves — which might take only another 140 years at current...
Weekend Roundup: Refugees Redefine Europe
America was once regarded as a welcoming immigrant nation where races and religions mingle freely, a geo-cultural therapy for history’s wounded masses who could leave their woes behind once they arrived on its shores. It is thus a jarring twist to witness the nativist rants of Donald Trump boosting his political fortunes at the same moment...
What Nazi Propaganda Can Teach Us about ISIS
In 1924, Adolf Hitler described propaganda as “a terrible weapon in the hands of an expert.” For two decades, the Nazis showed the world what a devastating weapon it could be. They won over millions of Germans to their extremist goals in a democracy by branding their movement with powerful symbols and images of their leader, engaging...
As We March Closer to War
If this were a novel it would begin with… After two world wars, they knew a brief calm of 70 years before the sins and ghosts of their past came back to strike them. This brief peace was completely eclipsed by the worst storm that ever occurred destroying them. Make no mistake, the next great war that occurs will use chemical, biological,...
Kiev Right Wing Violence: Time for Poroshenko to Look in the Mirror?
Amidst the emergence of politically right wing forces in Kiev, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko claims to be shocked and outraged by recent violence. Speaking in reference to an explosion which killed three members of the national guard outside parliament and left another officer in coma, Poroshenko called the attack “an anti-Ukrainian...
Vladimir Putin Has Been Skipping His Leg Days and It Has Been Duly Noted by Chinese Leadership
Pumping Iron (Sort of) Vladimir Putin’s recent gym gimmicks tell us a lot not only about his physical condition, but also about Russia’s general ailments. In this video, Mr. Putin is doing his best to impress the viewer by engaging in a series of exercises, which are better suited for seniors or patients of physical rehabilitation...
Hillary Clinton Promises A More Muscular Foreign Policy As President
WASHINGTON — In the lead-up to the 2008 presidential election, Hillary Clinton’s vote to authorize the Iraq War six years before haunted her on the campaign trail. It put her in stark contrast with then-Senator Barack Obama, who touted his foresight in opposing the ill-fated war. But if Clinton was scarred by the perception that her...
Minsk II — Simply Another Form of Russian Aggression
The recent violence in Kyiv in connection with protests over Ukrainian parliamentary consideration of some sort of special status for the separatist part of the Donbas is unforgivable. But Minsk II, the hastily cobbled together peace treaty engineered by Germany and France under Russian pressure, is no less forgivable for having placed Ukraine in...
