Realism seems to have fallen out of favor in the West, but it just might be ready for a brilliant return to the stage. I’m expecting an abrupt end of …
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OP-ED>Karen Kwiatkowski
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The western media are, above all, phraseologists. Managing massive vertically integrated “states” requires the controlled and targeted use of repetitive government approved language, propaganda, jingoism, repeated phrases to channel thought …
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The 2016 movie “Brace for Impact” about Captain Sully’s emergency landing on the Hudson River may hold the key to avoiding World War III, and the loss of the West. …
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If we look long enough and hard enough, we might find an example of something in the US is not by the state, of the state and for the state. …
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Maybe he was born with it; maybe it’s amphetamine. Iconic Maybelline slogan aside, the consensus is that Dark Brandon was doped nicely for his State of the Union address. We …
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Western leaders stand by while the US has provided the bombs needed to destroy most of Gaza, concentrate two million of the population against an Egyptian wall, and kill over …
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The US State Department continues to awe with its embrace of honesty, and the high value it places on the rule of law and transparency. Why, just the other day, …
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Alexei Navalny – seen as a pro-democracy, transparency, anti-corruption Russian nationalist gadfly – died while on a walk in his Siberian prison. He was serving a long sentence, one the …
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In 2005, Joan Didion published “The Year of Magical Thinking” about grieving the loss of her husband, the unavoidable instant reduction of a rich marriage to aimless solitude. Beyond the …
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The current US government has become “a form of fraud that … pays profits to earlier investors with funds from more recent investors” – in other words, a Ponzi scheme. …
