The Tear Line

“THE WORLD is complicated” and understanding just how complex it is requires a constant news media intake focusing on geopolitical, global crises, defense and security news. Besides that those are Continue reading →

On ‘Savages’ and ‘End of Watch’

Photo Credit: The New York Times THE NARCO-WARS of today have begun to see the big screen. Oliver Stone’s recent release Savages sets itself inside the designer dope game, where special strains Continue reading →

A Problem in Covering the Secret War

Photo Credit Defense News I HAVE tangentially spoken about President Obama’s secret drone strikes in Afghanistan-Pakistan (Af-Pak), which have only been marginally reported in the traditional media, while the strikes Continue reading →

On ‘The Wire,’ Season 1

DOING THIS six years late, particularly after these recent remarks*, reminds me (somewhat) of, how as a condition of certain behavioral treatments and recovery from addiction, people attempt to rectify Continue reading →

Paradigm Shift: Bad Schools Produce Bad Communities?

Photo Credit: The Daily Record IN 2010′s WAITING FOR “SUPERMAN,” a documentary focusing an examining lens on our failing national public school system, there was a new sociological perspective concerning Continue reading →

Village Voice Media’s Kristof Quibble

Photo Credit: Facebook (of Nicholas Kristof) THE NEW YORK TIMES, “The Grey Lady,” as it has become known as the established and serious paper of record *, hasn’t seen much challenge over Continue reading →

Fukushima: From the West Wing

Photo Credit: Foreign Affairs OF THE MOST harrowing stories from last year, the terrible series of events behind the Japanese earthquake that led to a cataclysmic tsunami, which then led to an unforeseen overwhelm of the Continue reading →

Simulating Syrian Intervention?

I RECENTLY READ that the Ministry of Defense (M.O.D.), Britain’s equivalent to the Department of Defense, is having an issue with keeping its recruits’ attention. (Not a real surprising story there.) The M.O.D.’s Continue reading →