By Daniel Ritchie The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein and Alfonso Cuarón ...read more

• By Daniel Ritchie
  Nov 9, 2018

By Daniel Ritchie I don't really even need to comment, just read at least the headline taken from IHT. "Palin violated ethics law, inquiry concludes" "Sarah Palin, the Republican U.S. vice-presidential candidate, abused her powers as governor of Alaska by pressuring ...read more

• By Daniel Ritchie
  Nov 9, 2018

By Daniel Ritchie I think John McCain needs to be praised for this recent stand, but I believe he is taking this stance too late in the game, as the Obama phobia has set in among the more uneducated and misinformed conservatives. Seems he is making these comments after the ...read more

• By Daniel Ritchie
  Nov 9, 2018

By Daniel Ritchie Ever heard of a logical fallacy? This is utterly disgraceful and indicative of the desperation and low-brow Republican campaign. This line of attack is lower than demagoguery, it is malicious slander that has no place in decent human behavior. I am truly ...read more

• By Daniel Ritchie
  Nov 9, 2018

Exclusive to The Daily Banter By: Daniel Ritchie The menacing depiction of an Iranian nuclear program is most certainly very vivid in the short term memory banks of the American public. The daily malignant mantra permeating all the main stream ‘news’ sources, reverberating in ...read more

• By Daniel Ritchie
  Feb 22, 2016

By: Daniel Ritchie I stumbled across this news/geopolitical affairs analysis source while browsing podcasts I might be interested in and decided it was of noteworthy value, so I thought I would put it out there for anyone else who might be interested. Also on the website, under ...read more

• By Daniel Ritchie
  Nov 9, 2018

Exclusive to The Daily Banter By: Daniel Ritchie “...a provocation that could lead to bloodshed” was the description by Dimitri Rogozin, Moscow’s ambassador to NATO, about the possibility that the former Soviet satellites Georgia and Ukraine could obtain NATO membership, in an ...read more

• By Daniel Ritchie
  Nov 9, 2018

Exclusive to The Daily Banter By Daniel Ritchie The United States has entered a precarious situation in an area of the world which has been notoriously entangled in historical turbulence: northern Iraq. The Ottomans, the British, the Baathists and now the Americans are playing a ...read more

• By Daniel Ritchie
  Nov 9, 2018

Exclusive to The Daily Banter By Daniel Ritchie It is no secret that the United States views the emergence of a powerful vengeful Russia and a nuclear armed Iran as significant threats to its national security interests. However, the steps taken by the United States to secure its ...read more

• By Daniel Ritchie
  Nov 9, 2018