A truly disgusting figure. You may be interested in the way Canada dealt with a unit that ‘went rogue’ in Somalia. After it was proven that a boy had been”executed” by the Regiment the unit was disbanded and is not revered, in fact if it is spoken of at all, it is with shame...
RE: Bought-And-Paid-For: Biden’s Long History Pandering to the Israeli Lobby by Editors – February 13, 2021 Great piece on Joe Biden. As you are well aware, from its very outset, the Zionist project has been predicated on theft (stealing land), and violence—displacing people while many times injuring and killing the indigenous population. This effort has been […]
President Lyndon B. Johnson's doctor, Dr. Joseph Eusterman, wrote on January 16, 2021: Thank you CAM and Mr. DiEugenio for this superb and important essay. I am a 91 years young retired internist. I was stationed at USNH-NNMC-Bethesda (now Walter Reed) from ’61 to ’63 caring for hi-ranking Navy, Marine and civilian govt. personnel. When then VP Johnson emergently returned from Pope John 23’s installation in Italy due to a painful kidney stone attack, I was assigned to oversee his case management...
Alvin D Hofer wrote on December 10, 2020: In his startling article entitled “Outposts of the U.S. Surveillance Empire: Denmark and Beyond,” December 10, 2020, Ron Ridenour makes the following statement: Those two juxtaposing headlines show, perhaps unwittingly, a deep dilemma for Danes. Do they want sovereignty or rather to be lackeys for Big Daddy? Without […]
[Given the noteworthy responses from our readers, we will here post those letters—as many as possible, both positive and critical—as we did in the past for CovertAction Quarterly. Feel free to write your letters as responses to articles we publish, or on other matters you see pertinent. Our goal is to provide a space for […]
Fr Dcn, Praxis, Qai, Greedo and others join me to cover the recent debate Fr Dcn Ananias had with Protestant apologist Matt Slick. We will cover Matt’s claims and approach, our analysis of the debate and the presuppositions of authority in Orthodoxy versus the lack of normative authority in Protestantism. Following the review, […]
The release of the Laurel and Hardy film biopic Stan & Ollie has brought the legendary comedy duo back into the public consciousness for a while. And it reminded me that, among various things I’ve written for this site over the years but never posted, there was a piece on Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy […]
Rome, July 24, 2015
To Yanis Varoufakis and Dominique Strauss-Khan
Dear Yanis, dear Dominique,
There is a place on earth that represents Europe’s very roots: Greece. Let us begin there.
Athens, April 28, 1955. Albert Camus’ conference on “The future of Europe”.[1]
On this occasion, participants agreed that the structural characteristics of European civilization are essentially two: the dignity of the individual; a spirit of critique.
In a Guardian interview (24 July), the Greek prime minister, Alexis Tsipras, having admitted to “big mistakes”, was asked if appointing me as his first finance minister was one of them. According to the interviewer, Mr Tsipras said “Varoufakis … was the right choice for an initial strategy of ‘collision politics’, but he dismisses the plan he presented had Greece been forced to make the dramatic move to a new currency as ‘so vague, it wasn’t worth talking about’”.
I’ve been fascinated by historic letters and correspondence for some time; and I wrote a post covering some of this a while ago. Letters, particularly communications never meant for public consumption, provide a fascinating insight into significant historic or cultural events, times or figures. They also can help to humanise certain figures – both historic […]
