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kotzabasis
- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
- Birthday
- April 03
- Bio
- I'm a former director of SBS tv Australia presently retired and cultivating my own garden, writing, which has few roses and many thorns.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Obama's Betrayal of America
through a Loving Kiss
August 30, 2010 04:09AM - Senator Schumer Correct in
Criticizing Obama's Diplomacy
April 30, 2010 03:39AM - Neo-Conservative's Cognitive
Power Haunts Liberals and
Obama
March 16, 2010 06:32AM - What is the Message of
Massachusetts Debacle?
January 22, 2010 08:42PM - Obama's "Knife-Throwing"
Adviser Stabs General's Advise
October 29, 2009 12:43PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
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existence?” I would
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always Gordon for your kind
remark.
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October 31, 2009 03:47AM - “GordonO
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always I'm grateful to you for
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April 11, 2009 11:31PM
Kotzabasis's Links
Obama's Betrayal of America through a Loving Kiss
By Con George-Kotzabasis
A reply to: Senator Obama vs. President Obama on Afghanistan
By Steve Clemons the Washington Note August 10, 2010
“At what point do we say: ‘Enough’?” “Exactly” at the point of defeat for America. That is where Obama&rsquo… Read full post »
Senator Schumer Correct in Criticizing Obama's Diplomacy
By Con George-Kotzabasis
Would Edward Luce and Daniel Dombey, and by implication Clemons, expect Robert Gibbs to say that Barack Obama agrees “with what Senator Schumer said? It is astonishing to see Clemons diverting the issue of the total freeze of settlements, which Schumer correctly critici… Read full post »
Neo-Conservative's Cognitive Power Haunts Liberals and Obama
By Con George-Kotzabasis
The concept of the “Axis of Evil” had a politically pragmatic Machiavellian sense in the context of religious-riddled America, and not a metaphysical one. Religion can also be used not only as “glue” to societal values that binds people and commands t… Read full post »
What is the Message of Massachusetts Debacle?
By Con George-Kotzabasis
The Massachusetts result showed pellucidly that the American electorate-whites in large numbers-has turned into a shoal of piranhas threatening to tear the flesh of Obama and the Democrats. What it craves for is economic and political stability, the preservation of conservati… Read full post »
Obama's "Knife-Throwing" Adviser Stabs General's Advise
All the great struggles of history have been won by superior will-power wresting victory in the teeth of odds or upon the narrowest of margins. Winston Churchill
By Con George-Kotzabasis--Originally written and published in Nemesis on October 12, 2009
President Obama’s “knife-throw… Read full post »
Periclean Athens and American Exceptionalism
A discussion between a Norwegian and an Australian
America’s Credibility Problem Persists Despite Obama’s Popularity
By Ben Katcher, Washington Note. September 10, 2009
Posted by Paul Norheim, Sep 11 2009, 12:53AM - Link
WIGWAG: "As for Paul's comment about American exceptionalism, I have… Read full post »
Obama:Folly of Talking & Acting Wise Without Being Wise
The above title is a paraphrase from William Shakespeare: “The folly of acting love and talking love, without being in love.” Statecraft like ‘romanticized’ love if exercised without wisdom can have the fate of Love’s Labour’s Lost as depic… Read full post »
A Curse is Haunting the Leaders of Europe
The following essay was written in March 2006 and first published on my blog Power Politics on the same date. And at the prodding of my 'malicious fairy' I'm throwing the cat among the pigeons.
A revisiting curse is haunting the ruling elites of “old” Europe,… Read full post »
The Weakening of the U.S. under President Obama
Charles Krauthammer in his latest Op-Ed in The Washington Post under a savvy and provocative caption “It’s Your Country Too, Mr President,” exposes the beginnings of the weakening of the United States under President Obama. But the ultimate judgment on Obama will be rendered by a Sh… Read full post »
International Occupying Power for Middle East Conflict
By Con George-Kotzabasis reply to:Watching Death
Day and Night So Close By...By Steve Clemons Washington Note
All those who continue to approach this tragic conflict, which emanates from an array of past soft failed policies implemented by the U.S., the EU, and their Middle East allies, with o… Read full post »
Presidential Jesters Give Standing Ovation to Obama
By Con George-Kotzabasis A response to:
President Obama’s First Foreign Policy Success –and it’s Only Day One
By Amjad Attalah Washington Note January 20, 2009
Amjad Attalah must be in a cavorting jocular mood. He ludicrously, for him maybe seriously, claims that the “c… Read full post »
No Half Measures: Plan to Win War in Afghanistan
By Con George-Kotzabasis
Unlike the evolution of species from an imperfect state to a more advanced one, the evolution of war, as a result of the huge increase in the fire-power of armaments and lethal military techniques, in reverse is a development for the worst. Througho… Read full post »
Through Ashes of War Will Rise Phoenix of Peace in Palestine
A response by Con George
–Kotzabasis to:
To the American pro-Israel pro-Peace activist group J
Street
J Street Statement on Gaza Attack
Washington Note, December 27, 2008
This is political frolicking at its best by J Street. And for Clemons to give it the political prominence it does not deserve… Read full post »
All The Punditry that is Fit to Defeat America
The following was written on June, 2007. It's republished on Salon showing how misconceived and wrong about the war some of the top-notch commentators in the American media were that will haunt their reputations for ever after.
By Con George-Kotzabasis
When men’s pride swells i… Read full post »
Clemons and Europeans Ecstatic about Obama
Will
Hillary Clinton Be Bad Cop to Obama’s Good
Cop?
By Steve
Clemons Washington Note, Nov. 22.
2008
A retort by Con George-Kotzabasis
This is an explosion of Steve’s libido of idealism after the inhibitions and frustrations he suffered under the Bush-Cheney administration. Finally in the
… Read full post »Will Obama Sheathe Sword and Use Paper Knife of Diplomacy?
By Con George-Kotzabasis
The attack on Mumbai is the continuation of terror by all means. The question is whether the civilized people of the world in this struggle for existence will be expecting the U.S.A., under the new incoming administration, which is the only nation that can defeat these warrio… Read full post »
Iranian Nuclear Heat Augurs No End to "Cold War"
The Cold War Ends By Ali Ettefagh Postglobal, Washington Post, January 2, 2008
A response by Con
George-Kotzabasis
The Iranian commentator Dr. Ali Ettefagh has laid Iran’s
libido dominandi on his psychoanalyst’s couch and
has given us his professional prognostic diagnosis that it’s
r… Read full post »
Obama Fails Test on Strength of Character
Will the American electorate be susceptible to the false idealistic promptings of a confused weak leader?
A reply by Con George-Kotzabasis to a Bush contrarian
Only the poverty of thought can make a statement such as the”poor republicans...through no fault of their own.”… Read full post »
Discussion with two American Liberals Whether the War is Won
How clever of professor Krugman to use his “Four legs good, two legs bad” drill to open a hole to the old debate about the levity of the decision of the Iraq war encapsulated in his “They attacked us, and we are going to strike back.” After failing… Read full post »
Terrorists Claim Rights Under Loose Garments of Human Rights
By Con George-Kotzabasis
Supreme Court judge Bernard Bongiorno, who is presiding over the biggest terror trial in Australia of the twelve radical Muslims (The “Dirty Dozen” bombers) who were allegedly preparing themselves to be holy martyrs in their jihad against Australia by killing inn
… Read full post »Who are the Hidden Culprits of the Economic Crisis?
By Con George-Kotzabasis
A retort to: Bush Will Address The Nation
By Steve Clemons The Washington Note September 29, 2008
My dear Steve, I’m saying this with great regret that your ‘amok’ propensity and desire to blame the Bush administration “for the reckless stewardship of… Read full post »
Obama Plays his Victory Fiddle While America is Burning
By Con George-Kotzabasis
Barack Obama in another crucial test of leadership--the others were his withdrawal of troops from Iraq and his diplomatic parlay with Iran—has irretrievably failed. In his response to John McCain’s proposal to suspend their campaign and postpone their debate that… Read full post »
Attack Iran: Two Strategic Strikes One Waiting in the Wings
By Con George-Kotzabasis reply to:
The Lies Of Hiroshima Are The Lies Of Today
By John Pilger
On Line opinion, August 14, 2008
The historical fact is, which Pilger deliberately brushes over so he can make his disingenuous intellectual and moral argument, that the fear at the time was that
… Read full post »Obama's Lipstick on a Pig Dehumanizes Palin
A reply by Con George-Kotzabasis to:
Paul Krugman: Blizzard of Lies New York Times September 11, 2008
Paul Krugman’s “blizzard of lies” turns out to be a summer breeze. His article is a treatise in intellectual disingenuity. Palin never said she did not support the bridge in t… Read full post »
The American Iron Lady
By Con George-Kotzabasis
The political cradle of America is rocking! On September 04, 2008, the United States has given birth and laid in its cradle a sassy, vigorous, kicking, and bouncing new baby characteristically named the American iron lady. Sarah Palin on that unexpectedly wondrous day h… Read full post »
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