The Contrarian Progressive

I know what I know. Somehow, what I see is different from what other people see.

29 September 2015

Putin: How To Come in From the Cold

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I am in midtown New York watching Secret Service Suburbans accompanying world leaders to the United Nations. Traffic is a giant mess and the...
19 September 2015

Russia and Syria in the Context of the New Cold War

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A good friend of this humble soapbox recently sent me a  Robert Parry article  regarding the dangers of starting a new Cold War with Russia ...
08 September 2015

Gay Marriage License Issue and a TV Show

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The Kentucky county clerk who refuses to issue marriage licenses to gay couples on Christian grounds is a Biblical literalist . If she wa...
13 August 2015

Chinese Currency in Record Fall: Oh Dear!

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Yesterday, this was the headline on the BBC News site. I included other news items below the headline for you to be able to verify ...
10 August 2015

Greek Bailout Money: Another Case for Oh Dearism

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Since very few of my readers checked out the Oh Dear theory you might not be familiar with the notion.  It refers to the corporate media...
06 August 2015

Can Somebody Explain to Me "Erdogan's Gamble"?

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After losing the June 7 elections, Turkey's bombastic President Tayyip Erdogan has first declared the Kurdish peace initiative DOA and ...
26 July 2015

Will Erdogan Push Turkey Into Syrian Quagmire?

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This is not a hypothetical question. And after the recent massacre in Suruc, a small town in Southern Turkey, where 32 people were killed ...
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