Category Foreign Policy
Ukraine Potpourri: “Referendum” Results, Natural Gas Lines To Europe, More Ground Escalation, Putin’s Threat To NASA
Lots has happened in Ukraine since my last update on the crisis, and there’s plenty to talk about. This past Sunday was election day in two eastern Ukrainian regions- Luhansk and Donetsk, where only one question was brought before their voting citizens on their ballot: Do you support the declaration of state independence of the […]
Friday Quick Hits – New Scott Ad a postive change, Indian Elections, Sexism in news rooms and Ukraine
After weeks of bashing presumptive Democratic nominee Charlie Crist on various charges, the Let’s Get to Work Committee has actually released a positive ad entitled Grandpa. It’s a change in tact from a committee that has failed to raise Crist’s negative substantially enough to change the shape of the race, while the Governor’s negative numbers […]
Thursday Bookshelf: My Generation of War and The Rising Trend Of Military Privatization
Authors Note: In addition to these books, please make sure you check out the latest from Jeremy Scahill: Dirty Wars both the book and documentary that examine the “Obama Doctrine” in this new type of warfare involving drones, and Restrepo the documentary based on the book War by Sebastian Junger. My generation is the new war generation. […]
Is it the time to lift the Cuba embargo? For Florida yes, for the USA no…Timing at issue
I have been a longstanding opponent of the US embargo against Cuba. It has been in place since the early 1960s and while it has perhaps at times slowed Cuba’s economy it has done little if anything to force regime change or to modify the behavior of the Castro regime on the global stage. For […]
Monday Musings – Pinellas mess, Boko Haram, School “choice”, Indian elections, NBC, Manchester City and Baseball in Palm Beach
We led off last week’s column talking about the debacle in Pinellas County RE: CD-13. The hope was this situation would have subsided by now. However, the opposite has occurred as the fallout has only intensified over the last week as the Pinellas County DEC and its Chairman Mark Hanisee have reacted defensively about the situation. […]
BREAKING: Satellite Images Show Putin Has NOT Moved troops Off Border
Early this week, I wrote about Putin’s tactics in Ukraine and opined that his announcement could be nothing more than propaganda in a de fact war dominated by the manipulation chaos. Now, The Washington Post is reporting NATO satellites show no Russian troop moments along the border despite Putin’s comments. I’ll have more tomorrow as […]
Charlie Crist in Cuba: an idea whose time has come?
Only an American President with the anti-Communist bona fides of a Nixon could have gone to China, the old saw goes — is it possible that it takes a Charlie Crist to visit Cuba? It just might. Though it wasn’t so long ago Charlie criticized Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jim Davis for taking a fact-finding mission while […]
Ukraine Potpourri: Intensifying Violence leads to Putin Withrdrawal of Troops From Ukrainian Border
If you’ve been paying any mind to the international media, the situation in Ukraine is continuing to snowball and remains a fluid situation with constant updates. In the past few weeks, violence as been erupting all over the Former Soviet Republic (FSR), pitting pro-Russian separatists against pro- Ukrainian nationalists. Body counts are continuing to rise in the eastern part […]
The Benghazi scam
First off let me establish my views of Benghazi. I believe it was a tragedy and unlike many Democrats I am willing to admit it reflects poorly on this administration and a certain degree of stonewalling took place because it was an election year. But to somehow equate Benghazi the way the GOP and FOX […]
Has the left-wing of the Democratic Party boxed President Obama in on combating Putin’s aggression?
President Obama’s comments as well as those of Secretary Kerry and Ambassador Power regarding the ultra-nationalistic and imperialist aims of Vladimir Putin’s Russia have been on the mark over the course of the last seven weeks. However, often times it seems the United States and other western governments are reacting late or not at all […]
The Florida Squeeze 