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Follow the money No. 121 Decline and fall of the American labor movement? http://www.washingtontimes.com/staff/sol-sanders/ Longer ago than I care to remember, I discussed “the decline of the American labor movement” with an old friend, a high AFL/CIO official, veteran of many a bitter “organizing campaign”, at its palatial 16th Street Washington headquarters. [Transparency alert: My […]

Roosters of the Apocalypse: How the junk science of global warming nearly bankrupted the Western world

A VERSION OF THIS REVIEW APPEARED IN THE WASHINGTON TIMES OF APRIL 11, 2012
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/10/global-warming-the-fad-of-fads/

The fad of fads by Sol W Sanders

Mass hysteria, alas! is all too common a phenomenon of our life and times, in a post-digital revolution society where disinformation is as rapidly passed as information and where cheap and available transportation aggravates rapid mob collection and intensity. [Its ubiquity is so pronounced that it is even parodied by young pranksters with so-called flash mobbing.]

But what is more inexplicable is when an allied phenomenon spreads through supposedly intellectual circles to dominate the public forum. Perhaps the most extreme – and certainly one of the most socially and financially costly — examples currently is the one that Rael Jean Isaac lays out in economical but exceedingly comprehensively documented detail in this little book.

Isaac shreds the arguments for “global warming” from start to finish. But in so doing, she more than once demonstrates the pure irrationality of its spokesmen – “the roosters”. For example, she shows how when driven to the wall to prove that changes in climate which may be taking place as they have through the millennia cannot be attributed with evidence to the effects of human activity, the proponents of global warming simply switch the argument without acknowledging this important “quibble”.

With more than adequate evidence and citations for her fundamental hypothesis, i.e., that consumption of fossil fuels is not the proved origin or principle cause of a presumed climate change, she goes on to show the perfidy of many of its spokesmen. But more than in the arguments of most her fellow opponents of the fashionable argument, she lays out the profitable stake many of its promoters have in this complicated world of government intervention, subsidies and their lobbies – and pure blackmail.

A version of this column is scheduled for publication on Monday, Oct. 3, 2011, in The Washington Times

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Perfidious Americus

Running an empire is not for sissies.

Since 1945, the U.S., holding the aces, had to finesse a role once played by the Europeans with Washington pulling up the Latin American rear. But that tacit alliance maintained worldwide stability for only two decades, in part because pre-digital America could sulk behind two oceans.

After Western Civilization’s second bloody civil war, rules changed: colonialism was abnegated, first “officially” in the 1943 Cairo Declaration. Pres. Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his Nationalist China ally Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek acknowledged European domination would go following the Allied victory. Of course, Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill, there too, was soon to meet British class voter retribution, and within less than two decades, the last of the Tory Grandees, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, would wrap up what had been the empire on which the sun never set. So much for Churchill’s vow he had not become the King’s first minister to preside over liquidation of the British imperium.

BEHIND THE DESERT STORM: A SECRET ARCHIVE STOLEN FROM THE KREMLIN THAT SHEDS NEW LIGHT ON THE ARAB REVOLUTION IN THE MIDDLE EASTBy Pavel Stroilov http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/sep/7/what-pilfered-documents-revealed/ One cannot read this book without recalling that aphorism of Otto von Bismarck: “There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.” Almost […]

A VERSION OF THIS APPEARS IN THE WASHINGTON TIMES AUGUST 22 Daddy’s sugar bowl empties    It’s our tradition to control, like Erich Honecker and Helmut Kohl, remember him from the Ukraine to the Rhone. Sweet home uber alles, Lord, I’m coming home.yah Come on, Sugar Daddy, bring me home. — ‘Hedwig and the Angry […]

The Pakistan conundrum http://www.yeoldecrabb.wordpress.com Everything about Pakistan from its very beginning has been anomalous. It was dreamed up by romantic poets but survival has depended on a stolid military drawing on British Indian Army professionalism. Its parameters were defined by Islam but its secularist elite sought a nation-state where none had ever existed. Its ethnic […]

http://www.freepressers.com/2010/08/vietnam-is-not-repeat-not-mighty-mouse/ Vietnam is not repeat not Mighty Mouse Posted by Freepressers China, Correspondents, East Asia, Sol W. Sanders By Sol W. Sanders, WorldTribune.com The setting was hardly a geopolitical forum. There was tea — but no crumpets — in my tiny, then less than fashionable, Hudson Street West Village studio. It was 1951. I had […]

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/12/sanders-north-korea-a-time-bomb-ticking-louder/print/ SANDERS: North Korea a time bomb ticking louder   Sol Sanders ANALYSIS/OPINION: Despite the global attention focused on Iran’s emergence as a nuclear-armed power, an equally if not more serious crisis swells on the Korean Peninsula. There are hints that North Korea, sheltered behind its communist regime’s all-encompassing secrecy, might implode. For the moment, […]

WASHTIMES Home » News » National Monday, April 5, 2010 SANDERS: Big trouble down Mexico way By Sol Sanders ANALYSIS/OPINION: Alas! The old cliches about Mexico are coming home again. Veteran New York Times newsman Scottie Reston once said that “Americans will do anything for Latin America — except read about it.” When four people […]