Reflections on Putin as a Leader and on the World Situation in Which He Works
Russia’s democracy may be imperfect, but America’s has transformed into plutocracy in which the state’s resources are committed the advancement of empire.
Read MoreJohn Chuckman is former chief economist for a large Canadian oil company. He has many interests and is a lifelong student of history. He writes with a passionate desire for honesty, the rule of reason, and concern for human decency. John regards it as a badge of honor to have left the United States as a poor young man from the South Side of Chicago when the country embarked on the pointless murder of something like 3 million Vietnamese in their own land because they happened to embrace the wrong economic loyalties. He lives in Canada, which he is fond of calling “the peaceable kingdom.”
Posted by John Chuckman | Mar 8, 2019 | Asia Pacific, News & Analysis, Politics, US |
Russia’s democracy may be imperfect, but America’s has transformed into plutocracy in which the state’s resources are committed the advancement of empire.
Read MorePosted by John Chuckman | Dec 9, 2017 | News & Analysis, Palestine, Politics, US |
Trump has most certainly been assured by Netanyahu that there will be favorable reciprocity for his taking this action, and deals are what Trump likes.
Read MorePosted by John Chuckman | Nov 11, 2017 | Middle East, Politics, Viewpoints |
If Israel had to do all the ugly deeds it wants done in the region itself, the world would see it with blinding clarity for the pariah state that it is.
Read MorePosted by John Chuckman | Feb 24, 2017 | Middle East, Palestine, Politics, Viewpoints |
The stark reality is that both solutions are impossible unless imposed from outside, and just where do we see any prospect for that?
Read MorePosted by John Chuckman | Feb 18, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints |
Trump represents a threat against some of the CIA’s favorite dirty projects, including the dangerous, non-stop assault on Russia.
Read MorePosted by John Chuckman | Feb 1, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints |
Donald Trump has an opportunity for greatness. Will he rise to it, or fall over his worst ideas and become just one more failed American President?
Read MorePosted by John Chuckman | Jan 13, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints |
A raw and sometimes darkly comic survey of America’s treacherous political terrain…
Read MorePosted by John Chuckman | Jan 6, 2017 | Politics, US, Viewpoints |
The insane circus in Washington is a sad parody of Joseph McCarthy waving fistfuls of blank paper, insisting they were lists of Russian spies.
Read MorePosted by John Chuckman | Dec 9, 2016 | Europe, Politics, Viewpoints |
Obama and his political associate, Hillary Clinton, are total failures as figures of principle and as leaders, and Merkel very much resembles them.
Read MorePosted by John Chuckman | Oct 24, 2016 | Politics, US, Viewpoints |
America’s election system is designed only to give the theater of democracy with none of the substance.
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