The Post-Partisan Emporium

  George Kennan and the Wolfowitz Doctrine What the hell am I doing? That is a question that really interests me. —Theodore Zeldin Dear Friends + Interlocutors, What are they trying to do, what do they want to accomplish, and why? With reference to the entrenched cabal that has been running Washington for decades, in particular since the end of the Cold War (1990), these basic questions have been racking my brain in recent weeks. We’ve got to step back and look at the big picture, a larger context. Does the world's current predicament basically derive from the so-called  Wolfowitz Doctrine of 1992 , prepared under the stewardship of Dick Cheney at the Pentagon?  In the aftermath of the Soviet Union collapse (1989) and the U.S.-led successful ejection of Saddam Hussein from Kuwait (1991), Washington lost its bearings. Its collective mindset went fantee. To quote from  the Pentagon document , known as the Defense Planning Guidance:  “...The U.S. must show the lead...

  Do NOT Flush Your Toilet, Planet Killer It is all good and fun until we have to work just to afford flushing the loo TESSA LENA Photo by Mick Haupt on Unsplash The Telegraph People should avoid flushing the lavatory if they go for a pee in order  to help save water , a senior water executive has said. Cathryn Ross, the strategy and regulatory affairs director at Thames Water, also called for people to  take shorter showers  to cut down on their water use. Water companies have targets to  cut per capita consumption  set by Ofwat, the regulator. Most, including Thames, failed to meet those targets in 2021-22. Ms Ross, a former chief executive of Ofwat, told The Times that  water consumption levels in the UK  were “unsustainable”. “The biggest thing that everybody can do to reduce their water consumption day to day is shorter showers and not flushing the loo every time,” she said. Around 30 per cent of home water use goes down the toilet, according...