Oh, I See!

This is the underlying reason for Washington’s concern over the creation of the AIIB: 1. Allowing the yuan to flourish will hit the international standing of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency of…

Kiev Shifts Goalposts as Merkel Skews Wide

Kiev President Petro Poroshenko unveiled a new dimension of international sanctions against Russia this week, while being royally entertained by German leaders in Berlin. The oligarch-turned-politician now wants the Western allies of the Kiev regime…

France at War with Alternative Medias

They were thousands of people marching all over France for Freedom of Speech, chanting JE SUIS CHARLIE, after the killing of Charlie Hebdo cartoonists. No surprise there. Arguing in France is a national sport, the…

The Rage of the Cultural Elites

A certain unhappy incident happened to my aunt in the summer of 1966. The Cultural Revolution—a political movement initiated by Mao Zedong—was beginning to engulf the country. That same year many American college students were…