The Contrarian Progressive

A few weeks ago the famed STRATFOR site was attacked by hackers and suffered an embarrassing setback. Their answer was to make the entire s...

In democracies, under normal circumstances, electoral results are determined by business classes. You could point to the huge sums of money ...

Recently, I found myself in Vietnam and in Cambodia for a few days. Instead of focusing on how amazing these countries were -and they are- I...

When I read in late November that the Turkish Prime Minister underwent a laparoscopic surgery to remove a small section of his colon I got ...

Recently, I mentioned how Germany quietly volunteered to underwrite the entire European debt in exchange for a new fiscal order to be deter...

While the title is reminiscent of Stephen Colbert's bombastic opening questions, I am not being facetious. BBC reported today that I...

For reasons too long to explain I found myself at Hong Kong Airport en route to Ho Chi Minh City just before Christmas. After submitting mys...