Posts on 10/22/17
Remembering Bob Gibbs
(Istvan Simon, USA, 10/22/17 4:06 pm) I was shocked by John E's reference in a recent post to the "late Bob Gibbs." I was unaware that he had died, and must have missed the announcement of his passing. I would like to offe ...
Read moreWesley Clark and Pristina Incident; from Gary Moore
(John Eipper, USA, 10/22/17 11:16 am) Gary Moore writes: Thanks to Brian Blodgett (21 October) for further elucidating the Pristina airport incident in Kosovo. Could this background shed light on Wesley C ...
Read morePopulism and the Rise of Right-Wing Parties in Austria, Czech Republic
(Nigel Jones, UK, 10/22/17 7:22 am) Our esteemed editor John Eipper (October 21) solicited my views of populism, asking whether it is a reaction to the undemocratic, dictatorial EU, and if so, how that explains Trump's triumph in t ...
Read moreHR 390 and Iraq`s Religious Minorities
(Tamara Zuniga-Brown, USA, 10/22/17 5:40 am) There is no doubt that the conflict and violence in disputed areas in Iraq, after the Kurdish referendum, is both complex and precipitously escalating. Yet there is a continued deafening silence about ...
Read moreHow is the EU Antidemocratic?
(José Ignacio Soler, Venezuela, 10/22/17 4:33 am) Nigel Jones wrote on October 21st: "I am not in principle opposed to a Common Market in Europe, to co-operation in trade, defense, security and other matters of common interest. This is exactly ...
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