Putin may have a point here... Is the US's imperial hubris catching up with itself? It's a Brave New World, only it aint sex, drugs and rock and roll that's the problem.
"... Silvio Berlusconi, Nicolas Sarkozy, François Hollande, Angela Merkel, and even Barack Obama, not to mention our own Donald Tusk, build kaleidoscopic political coalitions in which “public relations,” political marketing, and teleprompters replace programs of meaningful political action."
"If we are capable of compassion, yet at the same time powerless, then we live in a state of desperate irritability.” -Czesław Miłosz
"If we are capable of compassion, yet at the same time powerless, then we live in a state of desperate irritability.” -Czesław Miłosz
Phony money,... you can't print it forever. How's that savings account doing?
...recoil becomes a source of pleasure. You're up on your board turning turbulence to flow. You want to do it again, again—again!
Obama foreign policy, "GWB would be proud"
Four logical outcomes given two real variables in the current political economy - social inequality and resource scarcity...