The Worst Cancer of All
President Obama's decision to deploy 3,000 troops to Liberia in Africa to assist in efforts to contain Ebola got me to thinking about the military as white blood cells. As a military officer, I took an...
View ArticleStraighten up and Fly Right
It took ISIS and related allies' resorting to the ghastly medieval practice of beheading for the West and the outer world to get roused up. American public opinion, largely anti-war, turned around in...
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Why Wildlife Trafficking Is a Human Problem of Global Concern
World leaders are gathered again in New York for the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly to discuss some of the greatest crises challenging the global community today. They have...
View ArticleRauner Still Silent on Ohio Racketeering Lawsuit
Fallout from Illinois GOP gubernatorial nominee Bruce Rauner's private equity firm's ownership and operation of Trans Healthcare, Inc., a nationwide nursing home chain, continues to dog the...
View ArticleSunday Roundup
This week brought some notable farewells. First, Charlo Greene, a 26-year-old TV reporter in Alaska, won the Internet when she dropped the f-bomb on air and quit her job to work full-time on marijuana...
View ArticleThe Limits of Ideology: Lessons from Singapore
Next year will see the 50th anniversary of the creating of Singapore, widely hailed as one of the most successful of the Asian tigers. In that short space of time, the tiny nation state has grown into...
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The African Elephant's "Last Days"
The African elephant is a magnificent creature, but its time on earth is rapidly coming to an end. The African elephant population has decreased by more than 60 percent over the past decade. Just in...
View ArticleCan China and America Create a '100 Year Peace' Out of Today's Global Chaos?
PARIS -- Two hundred years ago, on September 25, 1814, Russia's Czar Alexander I and Friedrich Wilhelm III, the King of Prussia, were greeted at the gates of Vienna by Austria's Emperor Franz I. The...
View ArticleIndian PM Visit, Election, Energizes Indian-American Youth
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been called many things, among them a reformer, visionary, catalyst for a new Indian era, and even a saint. He has been featured on the covers of numerous American...
View ArticleChina Leapfrogs Ahead Into the Green Industrial Revolution
The New Financial Approach China now leads Asia as it has combined its societal (environmental, health, climate and natural resources etc.) concerns with capitalism into "social capitalism." Economics...
View ArticleAll Eyes Turn to the U.S. Supreme Court
Today the United States Supreme Court is scheduled to discuss seven petitions from five different states urging it to decide on the constitutionality of state laws excluding same-sex couples from...
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California Tames Its Direct Democracy
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Addressing concerns about the growing influence of special interests on California's initiative process and the decline of voter participation, Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed...
View ArticleGoogle Chairman Eric Schmidt and the Chamber of Climate Liars
"We should not be aligned with such people. They are just literally lying." That's what Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said in a recent interview with NPR's Diane Rehm about the American Legislative...
View ArticleObama
Reading Matt Bai's recent article about Gary Hart in the New York Times Magazine (Sunday, September 21, 2014) brought to mind how the rash, naughty-boy action of a mindless moment could alter the...
View ArticleHow Climate Change Helped ISIS
As the Obama administration undertakes a highly public, multilateral campaign to degrade and destroy the militant jihadists known as ISIS, ISIL and the Islamic State, many in the West remain unaware...
View ArticleTowards a Socialist America
"America can do better than capitalism". Richard Wolff declared these words at Riverside Church on January 22, 2012. His affirmation surfaced the sentiments that many Americans harbor. I suspect that...
View ArticleGOP Continues to Blow Off Rule About Not Criticizing the President During...
The biggest news of the past 10 days: President Obama launched the first sorties into Syria, targeting ISIS terrorists. Within 24 hours, however, Republicans everywhere decided to turn an awkward...
View ArticleEmbracing Assad Is a Better Strategy for the U.S. Than Supporting the Least...
The Middle East today is in as big a mess as I've seen it in a lifetime. By most measures it still continues to worsen, as ever new enemies to the U.S. pop up onto the scene. It is attracting polarized...
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Profiles In Cowardice
The United States Congress is currently abdicating one of its most solemn duties: declaring when America is at war, and with whom. This is nothing short of disgraceful, and every member of Congress who...
View ArticleWhy Americans View a Growing Economy With Growing Unrest
The stock market recently hit record highs, unemployment has dropped significantly in the last few years, and GDP growth has been strong lately, so do Americans react to this seeming economic "boom" by...
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