By Jon Kofas.     Abstract: It requires several hundred pages to address the complex subject of challenges to American democracy in the post-Cold War era of a global multi-polar economic and political power structure. In [...]

  By Nelson Hultberg.   Our government bankers print money today like loons in an asylum spew absurdity. Glib media shills lure us every night into a disgraceful indolence. And our corporations lust like spoiled children after mega-billions [...]

By John Stanton.   “I should tell you that homosexuality in our country has been overcome once and for all but not entirely. Or entirely but not completely. Or else entirely and completely but not once and for all. What do people think [...]

    By Pramod Raj Sedhain.     Since March 26, the Saudi Arabia-led coalition launched aerial attack against Houthi movement in Yemen. Others in the coalition include United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and [...]

  By Jon Kofas. Until very recently, the media throughout the world called the Greek SYRIZA party everything from “far left” to “radical far leftwing”.  Once the center-left party with a mass base made up of middle class and [...]

By Richard Mills.   In 1798 32 year-old British economist Malthus anonymously published “An Essay on the Principle of Population” and in it he argued that human population’s increase geometrically (1, 2, 4, 16 etc.) while their [...]

    By Gordon M. Hahn.     The five-day Georgian-Russian saw Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and other Georgian officials waging an aggressive propaganda campaign and, in many ways, a disinformation war in the Western [...]

By Sebastian Sarbu.   At the very foundation of all the created systems lays the principle of power. The Prince (the leader) who, in order to humiliate the high and mighty, is raising up the people, shall fall, he who, in order to humiliate [...]

By Alan Malcher.     Some western observers continue to see the escalating violence in Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East, simply as another country engaged in an expanding civil war which is complicated by home-grown [...]

    By Alan Malcher.   Although there continues to be accounts of Iraqi security forces making increasing military gains against the Islamic State Group, many of the successful campaigns have been fought by a number of Shiite [...]

By James M. Dorsey.     Synopsis The Saudi-led intervention in Yemen designed to prevent Iranian-backed forces from gaining power symbolises the Gulf’s new assertiveness. Potential US-Iranian agreement on resolving the nuclear [...]

    By  Jon Kofas.     Turkey’s Foreign Policy Contradictions The end of the Cold War and the new US war on “Islamic terror” has influenced the foreign policy of Turkey, almost as much as the power vacuum created by the US [...]

  By Robert Kelly.  The picture to the left is the poster from a South  Korean film in which a North Korean coup forces  South Korea to launch on air-strike on Nork missile  sites. It’s not very good (it’s the Top Gun of [...]

   By Anis H. Bajrektarevic.   25 years ago, the Russian historical empire melted down. Although often underreported, this also marked the end of alternative society in Europe. Collapse of the II world, made the 3rd way [...]

    By Jon Kofas.   Introduction: Cultural Hegemony in Marxian and anti-Marxian Thought We live in the most difficult times since the Great Depression, despite the end of the recession that started in 2008 and ended in 2011 in [...]

  By Silviu Craescu.   The open season was just trumpeted on shaping up ghostlike statal entities coexisting within the boundaries of other legitimate states. Novarussia and ISIS are good textbook examples. Both of them are financially [...]

  By Chris Zambelis.   King Salman and Saudi Arabia have moved up on the Islamic State’s list of targets (Source: DoD Flickr). The meteoric rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which has since styled itself the Islamic [...]

  By Yana Korobko.   The nuclear diplomacy has become one of the most crucial issues of the modern international relations. Accordingly to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)[1], the total number [...]

  By Nelson Hultberg.     Pervasive disorder dominates our lives today. It is not a frivolous thing, but a deadly thing that has seeped into our culture like nerve gas quietly permeating the brains of combatants in war. It [...]

    By Richard (Rick) Mills.   As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information Drought is a normal recurring feature of the climate in most parts of the world. It doesn’t get the [...]