AS OUR WORLD TURNS IN TRANSITION… (…its known order of things seems to be falling apart) Long ago, as a mush-brained freshman at Georgetown University, one of our favorite courses was something called – The History of Civilization – .
European Union
HOW THE INFECTIOUS DYSENTERY OF POPULISM CAN SPREAD… (…whenever discontent with a non-responsive status quo abounds…) The English have let a populist mood stampede them right out of the European Union’s collective, into an ocean of economic and other uncertainties
THE BRITISH ARE LEAVING!…THE BRITISH ARE LEAVING? (…well kinda…maybe…maybe not…) Everyone is on tenterhooks about the upcoming referendum in England to decide whether they should quit or stay as a member of the European Union. It’s hard to say which
STRATEGIC STEALTH MOVES… (…for expanded economic hegemony in East Asia) The presidents of both Taiwan and China will be meeting for talks in Singapore shortly, after more than a half century of each opposing and pretending that the other had
EXPECTING GREECE OR ANY MEMBERS TO IMPOSE FISCAL SELF-DISCIPLINE (…wss to believer the EU was capable of herding…cats) The resounding NO vote result of Greece’s referendum brings their country’s situation and the EU/IMF to the brink of critical mass…which could