“What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?” – Yeshua ben Yosef, itinerant Jewish preacher in Roman Palestine in the first half of the 1st century CE In Oswald Spengler’s narrative The Decline of the West, Faustian man, representative product of the current dominant world civilization, sold his […]
Author Archives: Norman A. Bailey
Posted inMiddle East
The apparent imminence of war
![China's President Xi Jinping, second left, and Russian President Vladimir Putin, second right, making bliny [Russian pancakes] as they visit the Far East Street exhibition on the sidelines of the 2018 Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok on Sept 11, 2018. Photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office handout / Anadolu Agency](https://i0.wp.com/asiatimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Putin-pancakes.jpg?resize=800%2C600&ssl=1)
Posted inBeijing, China, Russia, United States, World
Tripolar world: China ascendant?
Posted inAfghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Middle East, South Asia, Syria, World
On getting in and out of a swamp
Posted inChina, Middle East, Russia, World
A clear and present danger
Posted inBahrain, Egypt, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Middle East, Russia, Syria, Turkey, United Kingdom, World
