by Greg Maybury | Nov 22, 2016 | Economic History, Geopolitics, National Security, Power Politics, The Presidency, US Foreign Policy, US History, US National Security, US Politics, Wall Street
Brief: The outcome of the 2016 presidential election will keep pundits across the political spectrum looking to explain the rise to the Oval Office of the most improbable candidate in American political history for some time to come. This will especially be the case...
by Greg Maybury | Aug 3, 2016 | Geopolitics, US Foreign Policy, US National Security
When it comes to the arms business…there’s no end to the good news from the Middle East. Take the [Obama] administration’s proposed new 10-year aid deal with Israel. If enacted as currently planned, it would boost U.S. military assistance to that...
by Greg Maybury | Jan 1, 2016 | Economic History, Geopolitics, National Security, The Presidency, US History, US Political Economy, US Politics
‘Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.’ ‘Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.’ ‘Washington is broken....
by Greg Maybury | Dec 4, 2015 | Deep State, Geopolitics, National Security, Power Politics, Shadow Government
‘The heroes, the wise men, like the new moon have their waxing and waning. Men will say, “Who has ever lived with might and with power like him?” As in the dark month, the month of shadows, so without him there is no light. O Gilgamesh, this was the...
by Greg Maybury | Nov 20, 2015 | Geopolitics, The Presidency, US History, US Politics
President, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom—and of whom only—it is positively known that immense numbers of their countrymen did not want any of them for President. ― From: The Devil’s Dictionary, Ambrose Bierce * ‘He may be a...
