The John James Newsletter 110 26 March 2016 Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little Edmund Burke How Barack Obama Turned His Back On Saudi Arabia And Its Sunni Allies A widely held sentiment inside the White House is that many of the most prominent Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 109 19 March 2016 The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any Alice Walker When government is free to do anything it pleases, while citizen may act only by permission, we have the darkest periods of human history with rule by brute force Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 108 12 March 2016 The civilized have created the wretched, quite coldly and deliberately, whenever their “vital interests” are menaced. James Baldwin Conquered states that have been accustomed to liberty and the government of their own laws can be held by the conqueror in three different ways. The first is to Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 107 5 March 2016 An American-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein – and the replacement of the radical Baathist dictatorship with a new government more closely aligned with the US – would put America more wholly in charge of the region than any power since the Ottomans, or maybe even the Romans. Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 105 20 February 2016 A nation that is afraid to let us judge truth and falsehood in an open market is afraid of its people John F. Kennedy Compassion and understanding arise from an awareness that we are all reflections of each other Tom Feeley Washington’s Machiavellian Game in Syria The Continue Reading →
The John James Newsletter 104 13 February 2016 You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out Warren Buffett if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu Jim Hightower If There Is a Recession in 2016, This Is How It Will Happen What we’re dealing with isn’t just a Continue Reading →