March 17, 2018 What damned cheek to murder a Russian defector and his daughter in the sleepy town of Salisbury!  Britain, the US, Germany and Canada are all blasting Russia for this dastardly act that was apparently committed using a new nerve agent allegedly made in Russia known to the […]

March 10, 2018   Will China’s paramount leader Xi Jinping disprove Lord Acton’s famous maxim that all power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely?  Are we entering an era where many of the world’s great nations are ruled by strongmen, despots or modern monarchs?  Look at America’s would-be king, Donald Trump; […]

March 3, 2018 In December, 2002, President George W. Bush proclaimed that the US would unilaterally pull out of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty that had curtailed the development of nuclear missiles and anti-missile systems to defeat them. The arrogant, dim-witted Bush believed that US space technology was advancing so […]