To Davos, Dynamic Rooms and All of That
When a handful of the world’s wealthiest and most influential gather to discuss their leadership over us, the definition of conspiracy is largely fulfilled.
Read MoreNorman Ball (BA Political Science/Econ Washington & Lee University; MBA, Geo Washington University) is a well-traveled Anglo-American businessman, author and poet whose essays have appeared in Counterpunch, The Western Muslim and elsewhere. His new book is Between River and Rock: How I Resolved Television in Six Easy Payments. Two essay collections, How Can We Make Your Power More Comfortable? and The Frantic Force are spoken of here and here, respectively. A collection of poetry Serpentrope is due out early 2014 from White Violet Press. He can be reached at returntoone@hotmail.com.
Posted by Norman Ball | Feb 6, 2015 | Economy & Business, Regions, Viewpoints |
When a handful of the world’s wealthiest and most influential gather to discuss their leadership over us, the definition of conspiracy is largely fulfilled.
Read MorePosted by Norman Ball | Jan 30, 2015 | US, Viewpoints |
On the rather tight-lipped matter of privacy, there was more than a little fear-mongering going on in President Obama’s January 20 State of the Union address.
Read MorePosted by Norman Ball | Oct 3, 2014 | Culture, Europe |
Europe’s essential looming conflict is as inexorable as it is generational.
Read MorePosted by Norman Ball | Sep 11, 2013 | Middle East, US, Viewpoints |
Assad’s complicity in the chemical attack may or may not be fact. What is immutably true now however is the elite have selected it (for better or worse) as the controlling or instigating frame through which they will leverage America’s entry into the region.
Read MorePosted by Norman Ball | Sep 4, 2013 | Culture, US |
Only Uncle Sam has the real estate and the mindless profligacy to even try and keep abreast of the tsunami.
Read MorePosted by Norman Ball | Sep 2, 2013 | Asia Pacific, Culture, US |
Intimations of such disasters were, prior to Fukushima (and with the requisite amnesia for Chernobyl), the province of Greenpeace whale-huggers and excitable poets.
Read MorePosted by Norman Ball | Aug 28, 2013 | Middle East, Viewpoints |
What is a nation-state ever but a crude perimeter around a discrete subset of man and his manmade “deformities”?
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