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Kill the bastards
Read more: Kill the bastardsPicasso’s 1937 mural “Guernica” — worse was to come. The esteemed American general who once said was war was hell didn’t live long enough to bear witness to Lucifer’s shifting priorities. Between 1600 and 1914, wars were largely set piece confrontations in which rival forces clashed far from populated centers.…
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Poisoned fruit
Read more: Poisoned fruitBelieve or not, the story isn’t Berlusconi. Italy is a nation of gossipy eavesdroppers whose judiciary thrives on trafficking in insider information. This, and not Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is at the core of debate about legislation that would restrict illegal wiretapping. A number of facts bear noting. First: Similar…
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On the rocks
Read more: On the rocksObama: Fatalism between the lines. The first term lives of Democratic presidents do not come with guardian angels. Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton gave more than they got. Even “Yes We Can” has his hands full. FDR faced dire circumstances. If a bad recession is a…
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Half-empty Cup
Read more: Half-empty CupItaly won the first two World Cups. The World Cup is not the United States’ event. It can’t be. It emerged from era of big-power colonialism, class struggle and conquering catharsis. Even on a post-colonial global stage it exercises a voodoo that the United States, never poor, never humbled, never…
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Nobody’s fool
Read more: Nobody’s foolLess removed from nothing than most admit… As the spotted Greek sun sets in the east, euro-skeptics stoke their mortuary bonfire. Vindicated are those who a decade ago warned that Germany and France couldn’t cover indefinitely for weaklings Portugal, Greece, Ireland, Spain. “The euro zone has failed,” wrote veteran euro-basher…
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Why can’t we?
Read more: Why can’t we?Once-upon-a-nation. Europe has for centuries faced grievances over territory and ethnic identity, with the voice of estranged minorities or colonial outcasts serving as pretext and justification for saber-rattling nationalism and the creation of movements to entitle popular discontent. Hitler played to this sentiment when he invaded Czechoslovakia in 1938, allegedly…
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