Posts Tagged ‘follies’

Washington’s National Security Spending Follies

by Mandy Smithberger & William D. Hartung President Biden’s first Pentagon budget, released late last month, is staggering by any reasonable standard.  At more than $750 billion for the Defense Department and related work on nuclear weapons at the Department of Energy, it represents one of the highest levels of spending since World War II — far higher than […]

ACH (1341) Dr. Adrian Krieg – Generations With Adrian And Andy #65 – Democratic Follies

ACH (1341) Dr. Adrian Krieg – Generations With Adrian And Andy #65 – Democratic FolliesTHE ACH SHOW In today’s show originally broadcast on September 14 2020, Andy presents “Generations” with his co-host Dr. Adrian Krieg for a show entitled, “Democratic Follies.” We discussed: the Bob Hope YouTube clip we played during the intro segment; the […]

NYT and WaPo send their best reporters to stenograph the Syrian "five o’clock follies"

     When the U.S. military takes a bunch of journalists on a press junket to a foreign country it has a certain intention and prepares every detail in advance. There will be witnesses and local people who are briefed for their two minute talk with the journalists to convey exactly what the military wants them […]

Theresa May vows ‘bold, new’ future for Britain as E.U. exit awaits

A chaotic, weeks-long leadership void in Britain ended abruptly Wednesday evening with Theresa May taking power as prime minister and immediately setting out her vision for a “bold” new role for the country even as it hurtles toward a potentially destabilizing exit from the European Union. Minutes after curtsying before a handbag-toting queen at Buckingham […]

Border Follies, Fear and Loathing in Syria

Hospitality, Syrian Style   Khaled Mohamed Othman   THE STENCH OF URINE HIT ME ON MY NOSE AND STOMACH AS SOON AS I ENTERED THE ROOM. THE STRUCTURE THEY HAD TAKEN ME TO WAS AND PROBABLY STILL IS, VERY OLD, THICK AND HUMID; IT GAVE ME THE INPRESSION THAT IT DATED BACK TO THE TURKISH […]

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