kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Feb 2, 2012, 8:55 pm
By Con George-Kotzabasis—January 24, 2012   Gareth Evans the former minister of Foreign Affairs and presently Chancellor of the National University in Canberra, in an article published in The Australian, on December 26, 2011, under the title Peaceful Way in a World of Grey, argues that a confron...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Jan 31, 2012, 4:43 am
By Con George-Kotzabasis—January 9, 2012 In a hostile world only the strong have the right to indulge in hope. Thucydides Ah, that memorable, fascinating, admirable, and politically insightful and intrepid subject, Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady, that challenges almost all of contemporaneous p...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Jan 19, 2012, 5:58 am
By Con George-Kotzabasis Historically and by definition all from the left are millenarians who being terrified with their capitalist nightmares are countervailing them with their millenarian dreams. And if you don’t dream Marxist ‘dialectical’ nightmares but only Kant’s dream of “Eternal ...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Jan 17, 2012, 12:43 am
By Con George-Kotzabasis Are you proposing an unbalanced budget as a way out of zombie economics and long term prosperity? To live beyond one’s means is to live in FALSE prosperity that will not last long, as the present situation in Europe shows starkly. Moreover, a false prosperity encourages a...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Jan 4, 2012, 5:16 am
By Con George-Kotzabasis—December 1, 2011 It goes without saying, that merely a new European treaty, as proposed by Chancellor Merkel and President Sarkozy, no matter how strong its teeth, will not resolve the crisis. But the solving of the crisis might lie in a fecund combination of new rules to...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Dec 28, 2011, 7:15 pm
The following exchange between me and Professor of  Economics Yanis Varoufakis at Athens University took place on his blog http://yanisvaroufakis.eu/ about the capitalist system under the post: Ending 2011with a fable for our times-December 24, 2011 December 24, 2011 at 03:14 # Kotzabasis says,...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Dec 19, 2011, 1:10 am
By Con George-Kotzabasis The author Dilip Hiro is thoroughly confused between Iran without a bomb, obviously his optimal position, and Iran with a bomb when on the one hand he states, and inexpressively hopes, that the National Intelligence Estimate finding is correct that Iran has “ceased workin...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Dec 11, 2011, 7:57 pm
By Con George-Kotzabasis—December 10, 2011 We have forced every sea and land to be the highway of our daring. Pericles In the present storm-laden dark sky of Greece, a glittering new star has made its appearance which like a beacon of the sky is attempting to navigate the battered ship of Greece...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Dec 8, 2011, 1:41 am
By Con George-Kotzabasis On the crucial measures that could have prevented the “easy” loans that fomented the present economic crisis (Easy come easy go) that were provided under the Community Reinvestment Act the Democrats in Congress voted against them. Obama as community organizer was threat...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Nov 23, 2011, 9:28 pm
By Con George-Kotzabasis—November 23, 20011 The following proposal was sent to the leader of the Opposition Antonis Samaras on 11-23-2011. Dear Mr Samaras, The following proposal might overcome the impasse of the signed guarantee without Greece losing its dignity and amour propre The German po...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Nov 20, 2011, 5:33 am
By Con George-Kotzabasis—November 02, 2011-11-02 Political midgets, a la Papandreou, have chosen to take the risk of the high wire act by this proposal of the referendum. Hoping that the people will vote for the lesser of two evils, i.e., accepting the debt deal as formulated in Brussels last wee...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Nov 13, 2011, 4:31 am
By Con George-Kotzabasis “Scariest stories ever written about contemporary America” is the story that makes some of the political toddlers of America to run and cover themselves under their bed sheets. Sans political wisdom, sans political and historical insight, and hence, sans cognitive and i...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Nov 3, 2011, 4:34 am
Maureen Dowd is merely an ‘avatar’ of many other top liberal commentators such as Paul Krugman, Frank Rich, etc. of The New York Times who lack the intellectual integrity to admit that they were totally wrong in their analysis of the war in Iraq and most of all of its victorious outcome.   B...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Nov 3, 2011, 3:27 am
I’m republishing this short piece that exposes the malevolence  some critics had about the Bush administration. By Con George-Kotzabasis—October, 2008 The eminent economist and crown prince of punditry of the New York Times Paul Krugman laments that we are “entering a period of severe crisi...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Oct 22, 2011, 8:28 pm
I’m republishing the following short piece written on March 17, 2011, that shows how wrong most American and European liberals were about the intervention in Libya. By Con George-Kotzabasis This comment of Steve Clemons is a master penning in political frivolity. While the UN now backed by the ...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Oct 21, 2011, 4:28 am
In view of the killing of Muammar Gaddafi and the total decimation of his loyalist forces in his last stronghold Sirte, I’m republishing the following short piece that was written on March 16, 2011 and which foreshadowed the defeat of the dictator. The Arab world is no longer the plaything of aut...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Oct 10, 2011, 1:49 am
By Con George-Kotzabasis In any crisis of serious proportions consensus between the major political parties is the sine qua non for its resolution. This certainly applies presently in Greece. But the dimensions of the crisis are so Gulliverian that only a titanic struggle of will and resolution by ...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Oct 5, 2011, 6:01 am
By Con George-Kotzabasis The “lion” appointed by President Obama to the office of Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta, who purportedly is defending America and the West from deadly foes, in his latest visit to the Middle East is advising Israel, from his Olympian heights, ‘to take risks for ...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Sep 26, 2011, 3:49 am
By Con George-Kotzabasis –A short reply to an American Liberal The better question is, in my opinion, how many Afghans want the U.S. out and how many of them want the Taliban back in? That is where the “real argument’ lies. The fact is that there is a substantial number of Afghans that can on...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Sep 26, 2011, 3:30 am
  I’m republishing this short piece that was written at the earliest stages of the “Intervention” by NATO and the U.S. in Libya, illustrating how wrong the Liberal-Pacifists were about the outcome of the intervention that led to the collapse of the Gaddafi dictatorship. By Con George-Kotzaba...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Sep 14, 2011, 4:14 am
By Con George-Kotzabasis Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shovelling smoke. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes The High Court’s decision that the Gillard Government’s deportation of asylum seekers to Malaysia is unlawful is a devastating blow to Labour’s immigration policy and a lethal hi...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Sep 14, 2011, 12:33 am
By Con George-Kotzabasis In any crisis of serious proportions consensus between the major political parties is the sine qua non for its resolution. This certainly applies presently in Greece. But the dimensions of the crisis are so Gulliverian that only a titanic struggle of will and resolution by ...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Sep 6, 2011, 3:51 am
“Pessimism comes from the passions, optimism from the will”. Taro Aso former Prime Minister of Japan. By Con George-Kotzabasis The author is right to excavate the wisdom of Thucydides from the ruins of the Peloponnesian war. And the profound insights and political fecundity of Thucydides can ...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Sep 4, 2011, 9:22 am
By Con George-Kotzabasis Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shovelling smoke. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes The High Court’s decision that the Gillard Government’s deportation of asylum seekers to Malaysia is unlawful is a devastating blow to Labour’s immigration policy and a lethal hi...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Aug 25, 2011, 7:23 am
A short reply to a Liberal –By Con George-Kotzabasis Clearly your vocation in the ‘market of argument’ is to be a peddler in non sequiturs. Why are you shifting the ground of the argument, is it because your pockets are empty of all coins of counter reasoning on the issue? The question as was...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Aug 22, 2011, 9:32 pm
A short reply to a Liberal –By Con George-Kotzabasis Clearly your vocation in the ‘market of argument’ is to be a peddler in non sequiturs. Why are you shifting the ground of the argument, is it because your pockets are empty of all coins of counter reasoning on the issue? The question as was...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Aug 13, 2011, 5:58 am
“Pessimism comes from the passions, optimism from the will”. Taro Aso former Prime Minister of Japan. By Con George-Kotzabasis The author is right to excavate the wisdom of Thucydides from the ruins of the Peloponnesian war. And the profound insights and political fecundity of Thucydides can ...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Aug 6, 2011, 4:18 am
History teaches that weakness is provocative. Time and again weakness has invited adventures which strength might well have deterred. Donald Rumsfeld  By Con George-Kotzabasis One of Obama’s advisers described oxymoronically the actions of the president in Libya as “leading from behind.” At...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Jul 28, 2011, 3:57 am
By Con George-Kotzabasis You don’t have to be clairvoyant to know that hate is ‘democratic’, and except for the spiritually and philosophically noble, afflicts most humans. Your riposte is shallow and irrelevant as I was not comparing the hate of the left with that of the right wing, nor was ...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Jul 25, 2011, 5:33 am
By Con George-Kotzabasis All the intellectual ‘bushrangers’, to use an Australian term, a la Stephen Walt and Steve Clemons, are once again picking up their cudgels to beat Bush. After using Bush/Cheney as scarecrows to terrify Americans during their administration, they are now using them as s...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Jul 17, 2011, 5:32 am
I’m republishing this short piece in the face of the U.S. navy seals entering and breaching the national sovereignty of Pakistan for the purpose of killing Osama bin Laden. Turkey Bombs, the U.S. Applauds By William M. Arkin  Washington Post, columns & blogs, December 18, 2007  A brief respo...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Jul 16, 2011, 7:38 am
History teaches that weakness is provocative. Time and again weakness has invited adventures which strength might well have deterred. Donald Rumsfeld By Con George-Kotzabasis One of Obama’s advisers described oxymoronically the actions of the president in Libya as “leading from behind.” At a...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Jul 7, 2011, 8:18 am
By Con George-Kotzabasis—A short reply to: The subterranean world of Pakistan’s Byzantine politics By Bruce Haigh Online Opinion Australia It’s completely unpalatable to the hors d’oeuvres tastes of the left-leaning intelligentsia in this country and elsewhere, who are disgusted with U.S....
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Jul 4, 2011, 6:30 am
The following was written in early 2007. It is republished here in view of the current unfolding of the Arab Spring that has been inspired by Iraq’s nascent Democracy. By Con George-Kotzabasis Pleasingly it is people like Keith on Online Opinion who can see through the fraudulent, antiquarian, a...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Jun 27, 2011, 4:46 am
I’m republishing this piece written on June 2008 that is showing the total failure of the Obama administration to tackle and prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, and whose initial diplomacy was that by talking to the Mullah’s regime it would persuade the latter to abandon its determinati...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Jun 22, 2011, 11:28 pm
 By Con George-Kotzabasis In the interminable crises and conflicts that is the natural order of the world it’s necessary to “know thy enemy” in advance if one is to abort timely the birth of these conflicts from arising in all their ugly features. This website is committed to the goal of pre...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Jun 17, 2011, 5:05 am
I’m republishing the following for the readers of  this blog. The Smart Way Out of a Foolish War By Zbigniew Brzezinski  Washington Post, March 30, 2008 A short reply by Con George-Kotzabasis This is old fogy strategic thinking on the part of a former National Security advisor. For any natio...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Jun 15, 2011, 12:30 am
 By Con George-Kotzabasis—A short reply to: The subterranean world of Pakistan’s Byzantine politics By Bruce Haigh Online Opinion Australia  It’s completely unpalatable to the hors d’oeuvres tastes of the left-leaning intelligentsia in this country and elsewhere, who are disgusted with ...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Jun 5, 2011, 11:21 pm
By Con George-Kotzabasis In all situations of life of a critical momentous nature one’s choices are shrinked and one is forced to dichotomize the situation, which you consider to be wrong since you believe that one has a greater number of choices than two. Let us make a mental experiment. One is...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Jun 5, 2011, 11:11 pm
By Con George-Kotzabasis It’s utter foolishness to fight al Qaeda and its sundry holy warriors in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia and at the same time allow the “sires” of the jihadists to propagate from the sanctuaries of their unholy Mosques their poisonous doctrine against the West and its ...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - May 25, 2011, 11:07 pm
By Con George-Kotzabasis To associate the skeptics of climate change with the repudiators of the link between AIDS and the HIV virus and with the conspiracy theories of 9/11 and the “Larouche delusions,” shows clearly that professor Clive Hamilton rests his case on an intellectually very weak r...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - May 24, 2011, 5:18 am
I’m republishing the following which was written and published on June 2008 for the browsers of Daring Thoughts.  By Con George-Kotzabasis The cardinal errors of the Bush administration were (a) to “de-link” the war against Saddam from its original goal, i.e., to prevent the coupling of ter...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - May 16, 2011, 6:27 am
By Con George-Kotzabasis To associate the skeptics of climate change with the repudiators of the link between AIDS and the HIV virus and the conspiracy theories of 9/11 and the “Larouche delusions,” shows clearly that professor Clive Hamilton rests his case on an intellectually very weak reed. ...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - May 15, 2011, 11:27 pm
In the beginning was the deed… ‘war’. As strife is the fate and glory of mankind, to paraphrase the illustrious philosopher Heraclitus The following text, written on July 3, 2007, is a slightly modified reply To Colonel Dr. David Kilcullen, the Australian advisor to General David Petraeus com...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - May 6, 2011, 9:09 am
  By Con George-Kotzabasis It’s utter foolishness to fight al Qaeda and its sundry holy warriors in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia and at the same time allow the “sires” of the jihadists to propagate from the sanctuaries of their unholy Mosques their poisonous doctrine against the West and ...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - May 2, 2011, 5:04 am
The following was written on March 2008  By Con George-Kotzabasis The critic of President Bush turns the tail of  his “priority” into the head priority as only by doing this he can make his argument that the “surge failed in its primary task”( By early 2008), i.e., to achieve political r...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - May 2, 2011, 4:14 am
By Con George-Kotzabasis Only Sun Kings have absolute power and the teacher unions are not sun kings! But they do have enough power to keep intact the status quo of the postmodernist and PC superstructures that they have built on the edifice of the educational system that prevent the development of...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Apr 22, 2011, 4:35 am
I’m republishing this piece for the readers of this blog. In Presidential Sweepstakes McCain Sees Stars By William M. Arkin Washington Post December 19, 2007 A response by Con George-Kotzabasis If Clausewitz’s dictum is correct that ‘war is the continuation of politics by other means’, ...
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kotza posted an article on DARING THOUGHTS - Apr 19, 2011, 10:53 pm
By Con George-Kotzabasis I cannot understand how you have deduced from my argument that I considered Saddam to be a “Muslim fanatic” or even alluded to him as being connected with 9/11. What I alluded to was “on the probable conception of the nexus of terrorism with rogue states” that no st...
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kotza posted an article on THE GLOBAL JOURNAL - Apr 10, 2011, 4:03 am
I’m republishing this piece for the readers of this blog hoping they will find it to be of some interest.  A short reply by Con George-Kotzabasis to: A Cool Look at Professor Aitkin’s Global Warming Scepticism By Dr. Geoff Davies On Line Opinion, May 16, 2008 It would be impertinently impe...
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