Author: mtc9393

Have you been following the position of the United States on Ukraine? Probably not since it has not been carried in most mainstream newspapers. Last Friday “US Ambassador to Ukraine Geoffrey Pyatt has warned about serious consequences that the use of force against the participants in the rally in support for Ukraine’s European integration in…

My sense of China is that it is one of the most xenophobic country with a new rise in jingoism among its leadership. Its most recent declaration of a new air defense identification zone which in effect requires Japanese and South Korean aircraft flying in their own territorial waters to identify themselves to the Chinese and…

“The Chinese people are friendly people, people with sympathy, people who will always help others in time of need,”  China Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang said this month in response to questions about its lack of financial aid to the Philippines in the wake of the dastardly typhoon that took more than 5,000 lives.  The Chinese…

On Monday an article on Billy Bulger appeared in the New York Times written by Katherine Q. Seelye. Its gist is that by remaining silent and not condemning Whitey then Billy deserved what he got. I’m not quite sure where the idea came up that if the media writes certain evil thing about your sibling, even…

When I read a Boston Globe columnist tell us Whitey was involved in decades of terror in Boston and also newspapers throughout the world repeating those exact words, I accepted that the a complete evilification of Whitey had been accomplished. I recognized this much earlier with his arrest and the extraordinary coverage by the media…

Day 1 – A request that we do our best to avoid posting videos in the comment section. You can refer to the location of one on the net describing in your opinion how it relates to the matters under discussion but the naked posting takes away from the discussion aspects of the comments. Day 5…