When I was in South East Asia during the Vietnam War, I noticed that people were happy to bathe in muddy, polluted rivers and even use the water for cooking, although thankfully everything was boiled. They lived short lives and eventually succumbed to various diseases but they knew nothing else. …

Your Home is Your Castle? In my last article, I talked about “Fortress Mentality”. The Japanese had their castles, as did the Europeans. But castles are an aspect of a feudal worldview, as much symbolic as anything else, statements reflecting a hierarchy of being in which the few dominate the many. Castles do not win…

Here in Japan, tourists flock to look at the many castles left from Tokugawa times and earlier, each rising majestically on a hill, with walls and moats and courtyards. Here, the lords of the times — the Daimyo — presided over life and death — protected by their local samurai…

Is Hillary back? If it quacks like a duck….? Biden is not a lame duck. Just an old duck who needs a walker. Biden can't fly or swim. –He just sits there in the mud on the edge of a polluted pond, quacking incoherently.“Poor …

The following article may be offensive to some people of Faith. I beg for your understanding, if not forgiveness. I believe that spirituality is the core of our humanity and I read the Gospels and the Holy Qur'an as guidance. I do not oppose “religion” as such — just religions…

Biden’s war on Russia is just a side show. The real show is the End of the Not-So United States of America. Here in Japan, where I live, there are, or have been, many analogs. One would be the Battle for Saipan and the famous “banzai” charge by Japanese troops…

East and West: When The Twain Meet In The Tao of Vladimir Putin, I connected Putin’s mindset to Eastern philosophy, underscoring not only his strategic genius but principles that set him apart from Western-type politicians. With the Western Media trumpeting an amazing litany of lies such as Russian atrocities in Bucha and Kramatorsk, Zelensky and his Nazi puppet-masters…

Everyone’s favorite military “expert”, Scott Ritter is much in the news, despite being wrong half the time and continually reversing himself. How we love our “experts”. Ritter, as you may know, is a former Marine Corps office, who achieved prominence in the prelude to the Iraq War as a weapons…

As you may know, some organizations, including SouthFront are talking about UAF “successes” in the Karkhov region as the RF pulls back and re-positions to strengthen itself in the Izyum area. SouthFront has generally taken the position that the Russians are fighting with one hand tied behind their collective back…