When Borders Lie Between Civilization and Barbarities**

03.20.2022 __ “ … What [extremists/Muslims] needed to see was American boys and girls going house to house – from Continue reading →

Jamal Al-din Al-Afghani: The Loser Loses, the Winner Wins

09.05.2021 ________________________________________ In August of 2019 Congresswoman Liz Cheney of Wyoming – daughter of VP Dick Cheney, one of the Continue reading →

All is Not Well: Don’t Go Back to Sleep

01.12.2020 ________________________________________ “There is more going on … than the clumsy interventions of the west in Iraq and Afghanistan and Continue reading →

Iran and Iraq: Is The Price Worth It?

01.05.2020 ________________________________________ Since Nov. 15, when protests against the Iranian government – many violent – broke out in 21 Iranian Continue reading →

America, Iran, Venezuela: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.

03.02.2019 _________________________________________ Last week, I got a thank you card signed by a group of students from Somersworth High School Continue reading →

Refugee Ban: Trump exploits America’s collective dark side

01.29.2017 ________________________________________ A story I remember well bears retelling now that Donald Trump is president and leading a post-truth administration Continue reading →

Reflecting on 9/11: Renewing the right spirit within us

09.11.2016 _________________________________________ Today, fifteen years after 9/11 and less than two months from one of the most significant elections in Continue reading →

America: Avoiding an Appointment in Samarra

06.22.2014 _____________________ It’s been years since I read John O’Hara’s novel “Appointment in Samarra.” The epigraph that introduces the book Continue reading →