The Polemicist

Wild Turkey: Syria’s Blindside Jim Kavanagh The sudden jihadi offensive in Syria is a disaster. It is, first of all, a disaster for the...

  Out of Touch: The Empire Has Lost Its Mind Jim Kavanagh I've been trying to figure out something to say that captures the insani...

  Arresting Development: The ICC Arrest Warrant for Putin is A Weapon of War   Jim Kavanagh Ann Telnaes/The Washington Post The accumu...

Will There Be A Nuclear War?  Jim Kavanagh At this point, I put the chances at 50-50. Read on, and see why. On February 22, the day after Ru...

Stop Believing: Be skeptical of the civilian-casualty narrative   Jim Kavanagh Moscow Times/ TASS / CTK Photo / Vladimir Prycek As I’ve said...

The Battle of Ukraine and the War It’s Part Of Jim Kavanagh All-in Last week,  I wrote that Russia was “on the offensive and impatient”...

Here’s the unfinished post I was composing when I heard the news about Russian "military action" in Ukraine.  In my previous post ...

https://twitter.com/RealPepeEscobar/status/1495856808832950281?s=20&t=LUsE89mgfjLNmfsf8xEdLQ Let’s realize how profoundly the game has c...

 EU believes relations with Russia will get even worse [Related article:  The Warm War: Russiamania At The Boiling Point ]

Assange Extradition Trial Scheduled For February, Will Justice Be Served? A London court will decide in February whether WikiLeaks found...

Anticipation builds a day of Mueller report release A redacted version of the Mueller report will be released tomorrow, but Democrats an...

Is it war yet? Yes, in too many respects. It’s a relentless economic, diplomatic, and ideological war, spiced with (so far) just ...

Here’s what I saw unfold in the media during the 24 hours from Monday to Tuesday afternoon (May 15-16). On Monday, I saw blari...

In a previous essay , I stated that Russian military help to the Syrian State was a response to a direct threat from the United States ...

CBC News The recapture of Aleppo by the Syrian Arab Army and its allies marks a turning point not only in the conflict in Syria, but ...

  Tom Janssen | CagleCartoons.com So within the space of a few days, the United States has, first, commanded the government of Syria ...

Newsweek.com With his outrageous response to Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son, Capt. Humayun Khan, was killed in Iraq, Donald Trump ...

A treatise on the upheaval in Ukraine, in eight takes. The money shot: As tensions rose on the streets of the Russian-speaking easte...