The UK: clean sweep for Boris?
Twenty-three years of peace in Northern Ireland, after a sectarian war that lasted 30 years and killed 3,700…
Another Nobel Peace Prize winner goes rogue
Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed, the Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 2019, waited the statutory two years before…
The shipping industry is worse than aviation
We’re waiting on food goods like coconut milk and syrups, some spare parts for motors, we’ve got some…
There’s a way to end the sanctions in Syria
The Syrian civil war is ten years old this month, and it’s time to stop it. At least…
Round up the usual suspects: the Quad awakes
It has been quite pleasant living on a planet where most of the great powers were not locked…
The world needs to quarantine Brazil
If I were World Dictator, I would immediately place Brazil under total quarantine: nobody gets in, nobody comes…
Khashoggi and the gang who couldn’t shoot straight
If Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, were a burglar, he wouldn’t…
The convergence of Texas, Rossby waves, and wave-7
Texas puts out more carbon dioxide than any other U.S. state, so there was some innocent amusement to…
U.S. still bungling Iran nuclear deal
The self-esteem of two-year-olds and nation-states is too fragile for them to admit they were wrong, which makes…
Making plans for a Republican split
If the Republican Party splits, what name should the breakaway part use? The White People’s Insurrectionary Libertarian True-Blood…