Author: kafkananda

UPDATE: I just found this nice piece about the Iranian thinking a few days after the breakdown. The rest down below is fading into background information. From: Iran and the two Genevas in al-monitor.com… “There is...

Things have really sped up for the Mideast Peace Train in the last 36 hours. John Kerry, the US SoS, visited Israel to talk to PM Netanyahu, on the unscheduled way to Geneva to finalize the first stages of an Iranian accord with...

An extremely pertinent diary has appeared at Daily Kos that explains much about the Tea Party world view. E Pluribus Contentio: The Origins (and Dangers) of the Tea Party ShutdownKossack Geenius at Wrok has written a brilliantly...

The ‘Peace Train’ is a confluence of factors, trends, evolutions and revolutions of the public mind that is currently at work to render major armed conflict a dodo in the coming world to be. These factors and trends...

In my last diary, my first at the frog pond, I pointed to some geopolitical dynamics happening in the Middle East that support the notion that a Peace Train is gathering momentum. The usual East/West, Dem/Rep identifications and...