Category: Politics

WHAT I’M NOT HEARING ABOUT IMMUNITY

The media have been going berserk talking ad nauseum about Presidential immunity. But it seems there are many questions that they are not asking. Does this ruling mean that there can be no more impeachments of Presidents? Can the Republicans forget about impeaching Joe Biden? If so, can a former President be un-impeached? Trump’s infamous phone […]

HOW CITIZENS UNITED DIVIDED THE CITIZENS

I contend that the Supreme Court ruling Citizens United  vs. Federal Elections Committee (2010) is a prime cause of exacerbating the divide between the rich and the poor in America. In short, it allowed the rich, through large corporations, to buy politicians, who then enact laws that benefit the rich and harm the poor and middle […]

ROCKETS FROM RAFAH

Hamas’ latest actions are consistent with my earlier posts about their motivation. First, firing rockets at Israel is a message – a show of strength, even though the chances that the rockets do any damage are minimal. Hamas needs such bravado to show the world that it is still a fighting force. As I pointed […]

THE PRICE OF DOING GOOD

I was prompted to write this blog by the ads I see asking for donations for aid to Gaza. We keep hearing about the impending famine in Gaza, or lack of medicaI treatment, but I’m not hearing anything about famine among the Hamas soldiers. They are receiving food and medical treatment. It’s pretty clear that […]

UPDATE ON HAMAS April 23, 2024

I wrote the blog about Hamas’ objectives almost two months ago. In light of recent events, I want to examine how it is turning out. The recent Iranian attempt to bombard Israel is evidence that Hamas is succeeding in its mission to draw the international players into the anti-Israel fight. But maybe Hamas is failing. […]

HAMAS’ OBJECTIVES Feb. 27, 2024

Why did Hamas invade Israel? Surely they didn’t hope to take any territory, and even more surely, they didn’t hope to defeat Israel. After raping women and causing mayhem and as much Israel outrage as possible, they went back into Gaza. What did they hope to gain by that? Did anyone think that Israel would […]

WHAT’S WRONG WITH AFRICA?

I love Africa. I spent 12 years there, living in 5 very different countries — Nigeria, Lesotho, Ivory Coast, Mozambique, and Uganda — and travelling in most of the rest. In each case, I left, disillusioned at the lack of progress, at how African countries seemed to be working against their own interests. But each […]

What I’m not hearing about Targeting

The word ‘targeting’ is being tossed around a lot lately, especially in light of the ‘targeted’ killing of the aid convoy in Gaza. The IDF apparently used AI to inform them that the convoy had Hamas fighters in it. They therefore ‘targeted’ the convoy, in the sense that they hit the convoy they were aiming […]