There's reportedly an upswell in Egypt against US/UK-trained  military strongman Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. Surely the violence el-Sisi un...

Like a dumb kid prodding at his or her injury, I look again at the U.S. Government. Certainly there are hundreds of thousands of governme...

A beautiful Spring day - birds chirping, smells of grass & flowers on a soft breeze. Who wants to think about politics? So dirty, inc...

Yesterday Japan began construction of a new military base some 6o miles from Taiwan on Yonaguni Island (link) , roughly 400 miles southwest...

This is a follow-up to my earlier post, Japan is Good (link) After two weeks in Japan, here are some negative findings: -- Most bus s...

After two weeks in Japan, here are a few positive impressions: -- So many flowering trees! In the parks, in people's gardens, along m...

Reading masses of arguments & 'reports' by left-wing journalists & candy-ass lefty bloggers,  99% boils down to being clue...

La brièveté et ... Une belle histoire collective Maintenant, sakura !  

We "must do this" and "need do" that say the lying sacks of shit Hired lips in Washington Bernie Madoff billions ...

Muhammad Ali.  Cassius Clay.  He surely riled The Man. Listen (*) to his political speeches & banter . Then, Ali was struck-down....

It's terrible the USA admittedly tortures people. It's illegal to torture convicts. It's worse torturing people not yet charg...

BBC editors map the Crimea (link) and color-out Russia , which is also clipped-away as peripheral. The map looks different if simply chang...

Right-wing thugs in the Crimea push the rest of the people towards Russia - which is actively intervening. Similarly, right-wing thugs se...

Haiku by Genki : Welcome to breakfast ! Webcam without lens cover Window to the Soul... Cubicle farm spy Master of the Universe? S...

The U.S. National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee was meeting at the White House with Vice President Cheney on 19 June 2002 ...

Pilgrim Nuclear Generating Station and Nuclear Waste Storage Facility are too similar to Fukushima. It's a recipe for disaster. Pe...

We hear of trouble only      when they feed on each other ... Senate investigates CIA " intimidation of investigators " ...

SPI, Secret Police Investigations , have infiltrated almost every computer. The shadowy American secret police can reportedly monitor most...

Hårvård  Harvard  Harvard®  rah rah rah Hårvård is Swedish for "hair care" -- with nearly a million (link) web mentions . But S...

I've enjoyed reading Travels in North America , an English translation of Pehr Kalm's En Resa til Norra America. Also known as P...

The Sochi Olympic Women's Figure Skating finished yesterday, with Adelina Sotnikova of Russia winning gold, and defending champion Yun...

I've never studied Vietnamese. If born a few years earlier, I'd perhaps have been sent by my government to Vietnam as  (choose o...

Last Friday my former school district (where I was a student) decided to layoff 42 staff members, including eleven regular teachers, due to...

The Republican Party of the USA treats people as idiots. They gave us Vice-President Dan Quayle, who dreaded travel to Latin America caus...

      Complacency  =  Consent  =  Captivity

Corruption & blackmail are cunning, quick-growing, costly parasites. Americans today are taught it's discourteous to talk politic...

It's foolish to slowly release the "Snowstorm snippets" of Edward Snowden. Snowy and his cohorts could be terminated any ti...

What if 2 teams forever challenged the Super Bowl? Their fans choose the lineup. Seems like a bad idea? Welcome to politics USA, where ...

Let's assume the NSA is well-meaning and truly trying to promote public welfare. (In fact, I'm skeptical - I believe the NSA and ...

I've been a transient, I've been an immigrant. They are different conditions. Communities invest in themselves, which creates a p...