Author Archives: Richard Fernandez

Rokna News Agency reported that the parents had confessed to killing their son and dumping his body. They also confessed to murdering their daughter and son-in-law years ago. Both are now in custody

The post Biden/Trump world will be a swinging pendulum, each stroke oscillating past an elusive mean. This like water sloshing inside a ship called the free surface effect can cause it to lose stability and capsize.

The basic message of the Biden administration is “I’m quietly fixing things.” The lack of visible improvement is explained by the assurance that invisible mechanics are hard at work.

Kremlinology at the White House. Who’s on first?

The US has said it “expected” an immediate de-escalation, however, Israel responded that it would continue military operations until its “aim is met.” DW

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday that the Trump administration didn’t do ‘anything constructive’ to bring peace to the Middle East.

In Israel geopolitics keeps redefining morality every few decades, argues George Friedman.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) proposed that U.S. leaders not attend the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing over China’s alleged human rights violations, saying taking part in the Games would make the U.S. “complicit.” Forbes

Moral hazard. Generally speaking war, pestilence and famine favor the rich. This has been true through history.

The face mask, beyond its purpose as a sanitary appliance, has become a political symbol, a banner, a sign of whose side you’re on. Still another made an ominous, baffling prediction: “We will know who the real vaccinated people are – they will be wearing their masks. The unmasked will be the unvaccinated.”

According to Caniglia v Strom, a lower court had previously determined that police confiscating the guns without a warrant fell under the Fourth Amendment’s “community caretaking” exception, but a 9-0 vote from the nation’s top court struck down that ruling.

CNN has fired Adeel Raja, a freelance contributor, after he tweeted Sunday: ‘The world today needs a Hitler’ Daily Mail

This includes avoiding incitement, violent attacks, and terrorist acts, as well as evictions – including in East Jerusalem – demolitions, and settlement construction east of the 1967 lines. 

If identity politics is so good then why are its effects so destructive in the Middle East, among other places?

From the Atlantic in 2014