Image by Brendan O’Donnell. Global Warming (“GW”) is winning, and it is gaining. Obstacles to hotter temperatures are falling to the wayside, allowing GW to go for more intense heatwaves along with much, much higher sea levels. Alas, the greenest of green countries...
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Since President Donald Trump’s April Liberation Day announcement on tariffs, countries have been scrambling to negotiate with the self-proclaimed Dealmaker-in-Chief. Not a simple affair. For while DJT basks in...
Image courtesy of Al Jazeera. In contemporary conflict the “weaponization of information” or “targeting of journalists” shows a pattern of squashing dissent. Analysts like Martin Libicki and John Arquilla argue how information itself becomes a battlefield in what they...
“Say No to Strangers,” (10-minute documentary film), Sid Davis Productions, 1963 (Screenshot) ICE agents as bogeymen This is a column about ICE, but not about its illegal arrests, immanent expansion, or new detention center in Florida, Alligator Alcatraz. This is...
“Say No to Strangers,” (10-minute documentary film), Sid Davis Productions, 1963 (Screenshot) ICE agents as bogeymen This is a column about ICE, but not about its illegal arrests, immanent expansion, or new detention center in Florida, Alligator Alcatraz. This is...
Image courtesy of Al Jazeera. In contemporary conflict the “weaponization of information” or “targeting of journalists” shows a pattern of squashing dissent. Analysts like Martin Libicki and John Arquilla argue how information itself becomes a battlefield in what they...
“Say No to Strangers,” (10-minute documentary film), Sid Davis Productions, 1963 (Screenshot) ICE agents as bogeymen This is a column about ICE, but not about its illegal arrests, immanent expansion, or new detention center in Florida, Alligator Alcatraz. This is...
The totalitarian playbook that Donald Trump seems to follow lacks a chapter. Power-crazed the president may be, but he fails to grasp soft power. Wise military and diplomatic minds understand it well. George C. Marshall, the nation’s top general through World War II...
Anas Al-Sharif. Photograph Source: Al Jazeera – Fair Use In one night, Israel murdered Al Jazeera’s entire media crew in Gaza City. The Israeli military admitted to assassinating the journalists in an August 10 airstrike on a media tent outside Al-Shifa hospital. The...
Image by Brendan O’Donnell. Global Warming (“GW”) is winning, and it is gaining. Obstacles to hotter temperatures are falling to the wayside, allowing GW to go for more intense heatwaves along with much, much higher sea levels. Alas, the greenest of green countries...
Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain Since President Donald Trump’s April Liberation Day announcement on tariffs, countries have been scrambling to negotiate with the self-proclaimed Dealmaker-in-Chief. Not a simple affair. For while DJT basks in...
Image courtesy of Al Jazeera. In contemporary conflict the “weaponization of information” or “targeting of journalists” shows a pattern of squashing dissent. Analysts like Martin Libicki and John Arquilla argue how information itself becomes a battlefield in what they...