Welcome! This is an unapologetic, agenda-free zone. Just commentaries on current events that’ll move you to think, laugh, rage, and even cry.
I’ve been decrying WikiLeaks for years as little more than a reckless peddler of tabloid fodder. Unfortunately, the chorus of fellow progressives singing its praises made me feel like the proverbial John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness. Here, for example, is what I wrote in “Ecuador Grants Wikileaker Julian Assange Asylum … in London?”… Read more.
Since March 23, 2005, in a commentary titled Ecuador’s Indigenous People Fight to Reclaim Ancestral Land, I’ve been commenting on the David v. Goliath quest by Amazonian Indians to get oil giant Chevron to pay for the damage its exploration for oil did to their rainforest. Here in part is how I framed the issue… Read more.
Such is the nature of groupthink among Western commentators that you’d be hard-pressed to find any who support, as I do, Russia’s decision on Friday to incarcerate three Pussy Rioters. The nature of their political hooliganism warrants prosecution. Likewise you’d be hard-pressed to find any who oppose, as I do, Ecuador’s decision that same day to… Read more.
