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 →

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 →

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 →

Police: ‘Keeping the Peace’ Through Military Ways?

Photo Credit: National City Police Department To assist them in deploying this new weaponry, police departments have also sought and received extensive military training and tactical instruction. Originally, only the Continue reading →

A Telling Answer on Inequality

Photo Credit: We Are the 99 Percent AS THE OCCUPY WALL STREET movement gains steam and 68 percent of millionaires, according to The Wall Street Journal, now say that they actually support more taxes Continue reading →

His Lost Situational Awareness

WE are now even more ensconced in this remarkable fix: the economy has been putrid for years and shows little signs of improvement, and with no actual assistance from the Continue reading →

Burn Bags, Disney, Pizza and Plastic

TO TRANSPORT the huge heaps of “burn bags” crammed with discarded secrets, N.S.A. turned appropriately enough to Florida’s Disney World. In Fantasyland and the rest of the Magic Kingdom, accumulated Continue reading →