In response to an excellent commentary by my favorite modern academic, Immanuel Wallerstein, I would like to answer an essential question raised. The question is worded in alternate ways, as follow: Is it left to be internationalist, one-worldist, or is it left to be nationalist against the intrusion of powerful world forces? Is it left to be…

C’est magnifique, mais ce n’est pas la guerre: c’est de la folie. It is magnificent, but it is not war; it is madness. Pierre Bosquet This blog’s primary focus is religion and politics. Either subject is inherently controversial, but no results are more controversial than when the two are mixed to create their explosive cocktail. I guess…

On doit des egards aux vivants; on ne doit aux morts que la verite. We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth. Voltaire Just over a month from now, on 18 September, Scotland will decide whether or not it wants to remain part of the United Kingdom. I favor…

Une nation de singes à larynx de parroquets. A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots. Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès Today, an article I had drafted sometime in the preceding fort-night was published as an op-ed at Press TV. I cannot give an accurate date when I drafted the piece, because it was one of a…

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