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The Iranian deal throws Russia right back onto the world stage. For years all it could boast of was its huge supply of oil and gas which it fed to the industrial powers of Western Europe developing their dependency on it. Things went well for a while as Russia used the money to improve the…

On Tuesday I made reference to  the article that spoke of a speech given by Sir Halford Mackinder in January 1904. In his talk, “Mackinder argued that the future of global power lay not, as most British then imagined, in controlling the global sea lanes, but in controlling a vast land mass he called “Euro-Asia.””  It is…

I must admit I should have had a premonition that this was coming.  A source of mine over at the Island of Nantucket told me about a month or so ago he heard Secretary of State John Kerry singing that old song that begins with the words: “Days are long since you went away, I…

Three days after April Fool’s Day in 1967 Martin Luther King spoke at the Riverside Church in New York City. His speech was titled: “Beyond Vietnam – A Time to Break Silence.”   At that time about 15, 000 American had died in Vietnam. Lyndon B. Johnson was president at the time. He would remain in…

If there was any question that the news media is a lap-dog of the local FBI just look at this quote from the first line in a front page newspaper article last Friday: “The recent discovery of old surveillance footage that energized the investigation into the 1990 Gardner Museum heist . . . “ The…

I wrote how the FBI announced it had recovered a Stradivarius violin and that it told how it was praised by the Justice Department for its “outstanding work” when all its agents did was take custody of it from a violin appraiser who recognized it as having been stolen.  I’ve mentioned this many times before…