# Custom Maid Books
> Custom Maid Books is the official website of author, attorney, and political commentator Peter G. de Krassel. At its core, the site is the home of his Custom Maid book series, a body of provocative political nonfiction built around the theme of a "New World Disorder." Titles include Custom Maid Knowledge, Spin, War, and Revolution for New World Disorder, the chapter-by-chapter Custom Maid Backspin (covering subjects such as the hypocrisy of lies, cultural wars, religious disharmony, climate change, women's rights, fake news, government reform, and affordable housing), and standalone works like Custom Maid Housing for New World Disorder, Custom Maid Palestine for New World Disorder, and Feasting Dragon, Starving Eagle. Books are offered in print, eBook, and Chinese-language editions, alongside a collection of poster-sized political illustrations created with artist Mark Caparosa. Beyond the bookstore, the site hosts an extensive archive of several hundred opinion columns and blog posts spanning nearly two decades of commentary. Writing from a vantage point that bridges the United States and Hong Kong, de Krassel tackles U.S.-China relations, Hong Kong's political future, Middle East conflict, climate change, U.S. elections and presidential politics, the United Nations, immigration, and economic policy. His voice is contrarian, satirical, and solution-oriented, recurring to signature ideas such as "Compassionate Capitalism," "Interlocalism," redrawn borders to resolve entrenched conflicts, sweeping UN and institutional reform, and deeper cooperation between Washington and Beijing. The archive is complemented by pages for events and book signings, a catalog of his radio and television interviews, and a direct contact channel for readers. Peter G. de Krassel himself is a former practicing attorney (in both Beverly Hills and Hong Kong) turned author and public commentator whose columns have appeared in outlets including the China Daily Hong Kong edition and the South China Morning Post. His dual American and Asian perspective is the connective thread across the site: he writes as an outsider to partisan orthodoxy, challenging conventional thinking on both sides of the Pacific and pressing for pragmatic, reform-minded answers to global problems. Visitors to Custom Maid Books can expect to buy his books, read his political commentary, view and purchase his illustrations, and engage directly with an author who positions his work as a call to rethink governance, diplomacy, and civic life for a disordered world.

- [Official Homepage | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/): Custom Maid® Books is a solution-oriented educational platform addressing the most pressing socio-economic-political issues of our times.
- [About the Founder/Author | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/about-me/): Peter G. de Krassel has been professionally involved in representing American and Chinese corporate business interests in their efforts to bridge the gap
- [Feasting Dragon, Starving Eagle | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/product/feasting-dragon-starving-eagle/): An analysis of how America, through its misguided and bankrupt economic, financial and foreign policies and alliances, has allowed China and its citizens to prosper at the expense and suffering of Americans, who are picking up most of the global economic rehabilitation tab.
- [Custom Maid® Palestine for New World Disorder | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/product/custom-maid-palestine-for-new-world-disorder/): Peter G. de Krassel's two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: an independent Palestinian homeland, redrawn borders, Jerusalem as capital.
- [Custom Maid Spin for New World Disorder (Chinese) | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/product/custom-maid-spin-for-new-world-disorder-chinese-translation/): Political Dust Storms, Corrosive Money & Slick Oil, addresses the self-destructive cultural, sexual, religious, and political hypocrisy in America today.
- [Religious Disharmony | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/religious-disharmony/): Chapter Three of Custom Maid® Backspin takes on religious disharmony: church scandals, faith-based hypocrisy, and the case for separating church and state.
- [Contact Me | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/contact-me/): Reach author Peter G. de Krassel of Custom Maid® Books. Share your questions and talk about the political and social issues that matter most to you.
- [Custom Maid® Backspin for New World Disorder Vol. 2 (eBook) | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/product/custom-maid-backspin-for-new-world-disorder-vol-2-ebook/): Custom Maid Backspin for New World Disorder “Backspin“ is an attempt to better understand what happened in America and US-China relations between 9/11 and 1/6. The book compares the history and current geopolitical battle between democracy and autocracy. It compares Managed Democracy in Russia, China, and Hong Kong to Liberal Democracy in America and the West. https://youtu.be/_LYtI4Bx7kM Backspin proposes that America and China blend and fuse the best of their political and economic systems to introduce Compassionate Capitalism as their new joint vision and mission for the world. My book Custom Maid for New World Disorder, published in 2004, was republished the following year with a new cover with the word spin added to the title.
- [Legalize Government of The People | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/legalize-government-of-the-people/): Chapter Seven of Custom Maid® Backspin: bridging U.S.-China divisions through Compassionate Capitalism, plus police reform and government of the people.
- [Custom Maid® Backspin for New World Disorder Vol. 1 (eBook) | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/product/custom-maid-backspin-for-new-world-disorder-ebook/): Custom Maid Backspin for New World Disorder “Backspin“ is an attempt to better understand what happened in America and US-China relations between 9/11 and 1/6. The book compares the history and current geopolitical battle between democracy and autocracy. It compares Managed Democracy in Russia, China, and Hong Kong to Liberal Democracy in America and the West. https://youtu.be/_LYtI4Bx7kM Backspin proposes that America and China blend and fuse the best of their political and economic systems to introduce Compassionate Capitalism as their new joint vision and mission for the world. My book Custom Maid for New World Disorder, published in 2004, was republished the following year with a new cover with the word spin added to the title.
- [Custom Maid® Housing for New World Disorder | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/product/custom-maid-housing-for-new-world-disorder/): Peter G. de Krassel's housing manifesto: the Housing Subsidy Solution for affordable homes so no one pays more than a quarter of income on rent.
- [Custom Maid® Knowledge for New World Disorder | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/product/custom-maid-knowledge-for-new-world-disorder/): Custom Maid Knowlegde for New World Disorder addresses the self destructive hypocrisy in America today - the best book on US China relations
- [Hypocrisy of Lies | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/hypocrisy-of-lies/): Chapter One of Custom Maid® Backspin separates fact from fiction, from the Afghanistan withdrawal to media lies, the Capitol riot, and U.S.-China ties.
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- [Eve Outsmarts Adam | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/eve-outsmarts-adam/): Chapter Five of Custom Maid® Backspin traces women's rise from the 19th Amendment to today's leaders in business, science, politics, and sports.
- [Custom Maid® Backspin for New World Disorder Vol. 1 & 2 (eBook) | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/product/custom-maid-backspin-for-new-world-disorder-vol-1-and-2-ebook/): Custom Maid Backspin for New World Disorder “Backspin“ is an attempt to better understand what happened in America and US-China relations between 9/11 and 1/6. The book compares the history and current geopolitical battle between democracy and autocracy. It compares Managed Democracy in Russia, China, and Hong Kong to Liberal Democracy in America and the West. https://youtu.be/_LYtI4Bx7kM Backspin proposes that America and China blend and fuse the best of their political and economic systems to introduce Compassionate Capitalism as their new joint vision and mission for the world. My book Custom Maid for New World Disorder, published in 2004, was republished the following year with a new cover with the word spin added to the title.
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- [TV & Radio Media Interview | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/tv-appearances-media-interviews/): Explore Peter G. de Krassel's radio and TV interviews on U.S. politics, China, and world affairs, spanning appearances from 2008 to 2026.
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- [Living Cultural Wars | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/living-cultural-wars/): Chapter Two of Custom Maid® Backspin confronts systemic racism, police reform, critical race theory, and reparations in America and beyond.
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- [Fake News – Spinning Out of Control | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/fake-news-spinning-out-of-control/): Chapter Six of Custom Maid® Backspin tackles fake news, social media misinformation, cancel culture, and the case for stronger antitrust regulation.
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- [Columns | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/columns/): Archive of Peter G. de Krassel's political columns on U.S.-China relations, Hong Kong's security law, Trump's presidency, and disputed 2020 elections.
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- [To improve relations with the US, China should rethink its Hong Kong strategy | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/hongkong/to-improve-relations-with-the-us-china-should-rethink-its-hong-kong-strategy/): China should honor the 1984 Joint Declaration and one country, two systems, argues de Krassel, citing 2019 protests and disqualified Hong Kong lawmakers.
- [How Trump divided a nation but united the Democrats | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/2020-election/how-trump-divided-a-nation-but-united-the-democrats/): Trump united Democrats even as he split the nation, argues de Krassel, pointing to Sanders, Biden, GOP defectors, and Kenosha unrest over Jacob Blake.
- [Trump’s ‘elector’ episode | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/trump/trumps-elector-episode/): Peter de Krassel warns that Trump's push for faithless electors after his 7 million vote loss risks a constitutional crisis around the January 2021 count.
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- [Why the US must restore Hong Kong’s special trade status | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/hongkong/why-the-us-must-restore-hong-kongs-special-trade-status/): Biden should restore Hong Kong's special trade status under the 1992 Act, argues de Krassel, defending Made in Hong Kong labeling over Made in China.
- [Taking care of business in crisis: it’s the HK way | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/taking-care-of-business-in-crisis/): Hong Kong handled the COVID crisis with HK$10,000 cash handouts and business grants, argues de Krassel, contrasting it with US and India food bank lines.
- [Could US Capitol invasion signal the start of the third American revolution? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/trump/could-us-capitol-invasion-signal-the-start-of-the-third-american-revolution/): De Krassel asks whether the January 6 Capitol invasion marks a third American revolution after 1776 and the Civil War, weighing armed Trump supporters.
- [Real democracy is still going strong, despite pandemic crisis and US election ugliness | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/democracy/real-democracy-is-still-going-strong-despite-pandemic-crisis-and-us-election-ugliness/): The much-discussed collapse of liberal democracy has raised questions in some quarters about whether managed democracy or authoritarian rule is superior However, evidence from the US, Belarus and Kyrgyzstan suggest real democracy is alive and well as people turn out in force to support the rule of law
- [Worries Over Security Law May Open Floodgates to Brain Drain | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/worries-over-security-law-may-open-floodgates-to-brain-drain/): Beijing's security law may spark a Hong Kong brain drain, warns de Krassel, as Britain and Australia open doors and residents fear vague new speech crimes.
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- [Hong Kong should emulate New York to solve its housing crisis by rezoning unused buildings | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/hongkong/hong-kong-should-emulate-new-york-to-solve-its-housing-crisis-by-rezoning-unused-buildings/): BHM proposes a Housing Subsidy Solution for building affordable housing for buyers, renters and homeless — profitably for governments, developers, and landlords
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- [Bipolar Word – U.S. and China Can Come Together | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/bipolar-word-u-s-and-china-can-come-together/): The escalating trade and military tensions between USand China that both countries are displaying against each other is, very short sighted and destructive.
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- [Protests, Protests, Everywhere | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/foreign-affairs/protests-everywhere/): As Arab-Israelis clash with Israeli armed forces on the Temple Mount, I can’t help reflecting on the protests worldwide.
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- [Unite to End Dog Meat Festivals | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/unite-to-end-dog-meat-festivals/): Peter G. de Krassel urges China to cancel the Yulin Dog Meat Festival as a soft power move to rebuild global goodwill after COVID-19.
- [Why Are Americans Being so Stupid? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/why-are-americans-being-so-stupid/): De Krassel condemns U.S. mask resistance and Trump's leadership as COVID deaths pass 125,000, contrasting America's toll with Hong Kong's.
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- [Political challenge of a new kind that Hong Kong should gladly take up | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/political-challenge-of-a-new-kind-that-hong-kong-should-gladly-take-up/): Peter G. de Krassel argues Hong Kong should become the global city for animal rights after Beijing reclassifies dogs and Shenzhen bans dog meat.
- [Living a Sino-U.S. Conundrum | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/living-a-sino-u-s-conundrum/): De Krassel weighs staying in Hong Kong under its new security law and calls on Trump and Xi to cooperate on COVID vaccines and climate change.
- [How Trump’s fear, and loathing of mail-in voting, threatens US stability | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/trump/how-trumps-fear-and-loathing-of-mail-in-voting-threatens-us-stability/): If Trump does lose the election, he will no longer be immune from criminal prosecution, putting him and his organization in jeopardy The confusion and distrust sown by Trump and his allies have left voters skeptical of election results and could end
- [China Bashing Not Needed | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/china-bashing-not-needed/): With 70% of Americans already viewing China negatively, de Krassel argues campaign China bashing is pointless and urges Sun Tzu strategy instead.
- [Fight to Unite | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/current-affairs/fight-to-unite/): The neck and neck, nip and tuck divisive and controversial 2020 U.S. presidential election, and the number of lawsuits already filed by both presidential candidate’s legal teams...
- [We Shall Overcome | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/we-shall-overcome/): After the January 6 Capitol attack, de Krassel reflects on the Biden-Harris inauguration, 25,000 vetted troops, and America's internal division.
- [America: “We Have a Problem!” | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/america/america-we-have-a-problem/): Peter G. de Krassel calls the January 6 Capitol attack proof that internal division, not foreign threats, is America's gravest security crisis.
- [Twitter Twat Twix | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/twitter-twat-twix/): Trump's inflammatory tweets fanned crisis amid COVID-19, mass unemployment, and George Floyd's death, argues de Krassel, urging constitutional reform.
- [Fight for Civil Rights, Not a Civil War | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/america/fight-for-civil-rights-not-a-civil-war/): Opposing troops against 2020 protesters, de Krassel recalls Trump's church photo op after George Floyd and the Insurrection Act's civil rights past.
- [Pardon Me? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/trump/pardon-me/): How the presidential pardon power works under Article II, from Ford pardoning Nixon to Trump's pardon of Michael Flynn, examined by de Krassel.
- [Dueling Electors – An American Tradition | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/current-affairs/dueling-electors-an-american-tradition/): Competing 2020 elector slates in seven states, John Eastman, Mo Brooks, and Ted Cruz set up the January 6 congressional clash over the presidency.
- [Political Vaccine | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/covid-19/political-vaccine/): De Krassel prescribes a political vaccine for cancel culture and fake news, invoking a bloodless Third American Revolution rooted in founding ideals.
- [Hong Kong is U.S.-China Bridge | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/hongkong/hong-kong-is-u-s-china-bridge/): Hong Kong is the U.S.-China bridge, argues de Krassel, condemning the Made in China relabeling and warning that sanctions drive damaging brain drain.
- [Biden a Lame Horse Stuck in a Barn | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/2020-election/biden-a-lame-horse-stuck-in-a-barn/): De Krassel argues Democrats blundered nominating Biden over Bernie Sanders, crediting Jim Clyburn's endorsement and doubting Biden's debate form.
- [Concern about Masked Covid Generation Kids | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/covid-19/concern-about-masked-covid-generation-kids/): Peter G. de Krassel warns that remote learning, masks, and screen isolation are scarring a COVID generation of children lacking social skills.
- [Bye Annus Horriblus | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/bye-annus-horriblus/): Peter G. de Krassel bids 2020 farewell, wishing 2021 an end to cancel culture, a smarter Covid response, and restored economic prosperity.
- [Spin to Backspin | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/spin-to-backspin/): Tracing spin from 9/11 to the January 6 Capitol attack, de Krassel argues fake news demands the political reform he calls Backspin.
- [Backspin | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/backspin/): Backspin by Peter G. de Krassel confronts lies, war, climate change, women's rights, fake news, and housing, launching at the Hong Kong Book Fair.
- [Backspin Chapters | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/product-category/backspin-chapters/): Custom Maid Backspin texts by chapter
- [International Criminal Court | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/international-criminal-court/): Peter G. de Krassel argues the ICC is toothless: unratified by Congress, its unenforceable rulings fail against Russia, Syria, and Myanmar aggression.
- [Book Fair | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/book-fair/): Scenes from Peter G. de Krassel's Hong Kong Book Fair booth 1C-E20, signing Custom Maid titles Backspin, War, Spin, and Knowledge.
- [Remake & Relocate the U.N. to Hong Kong | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/remake-relocate-the-u-n-to-hong-kong/): Calling the U.N. obsolete after Syria, de Krassel proposes an Interlocal Security Council in Hong Kong to replace one country, one vote.
- [Galloping Year of The Golden Horse | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/galloping-year-golden-horse/): Horse ownership tax deductions amount to welfare for the rich, argues de Krassel, citing the du Pont family write-offs for stables and foxhunters.
- [Los Angeles Book Signing for Custom Maid Knowledge | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/samle-blog-post-los-angeles-book-signing-custom-maid-knowledge/): A young Peter de Krassel and Jerry Cohen ride Arabian horses renamed Mister Opec and Abu Dhabi to protest 1970s gas shortages and OPEC price hikes.
- [Preview Backspin | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/preview_backspin/): Preview Backspin: de Krassel's serialized study from 9/11 to January 6, linking fake news, housing reform, and corruption across America and China.
- [Trump’s Military Complex Conflict | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/2020-election/trumps-military-complex-conflict/): Trump branded generals shills for the military industrial complex while reviving arms budgets and a $110 billion Saudi deal; de Krassel notes the irony.
- [Changes, 3 Ripe Old White Men, and a Fresh Woman of Color | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/2020-election/changes-3-ripe-old-white-men-and-a-fresh-woman-of-color/): Reading the 2020 conventions as a demographic shift, de Krassel urges civic engagement to fulfill the Founders' ideals and avert a violent third revolution.
- [The Vote That Counts is Electoral | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/trump/the-vote-that-counts-is-electoral/): Electoral votes, not the popular vote, decide U.S. elections: de Krassel warns Trump could court 38 faithless electors and calls to abolish the College.
- [China Peace Table | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/china-peace-table/): Xi Jinping should host Russia and Ukraine peace talks in Istanbul, de Krassel argues, warning of nuclear risk, grain shortages, and record inflation.
- [Syria’s Red Line Overdrawn | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/syrias-red-line-overdrawn/): The U.S. shirked a moral and legal duty to confront Bashar al-Assad's atrocities, argues de Krassel, citing Fouad Ajami, Grotius, Bosnia, and Libya.
- [Is Democracy Dying or Kick Starting? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/democratic/is-democracy-dying-or-kick-starting/): Pandemic power grabs threaten democracy from Hong Kong to Hungary, yet mail-in voting and grassroots activism can revive it, argues Peter G. de Krassel.
- [Covid-19 Trump Card | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/trump/covid-19-trump-card/): The question on many voters minds, does the president have a Trump card or is he going to bust?
- [The Death of Hong Kong Autonomy | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/the-death-of-hong-kong-autonomy/): Beijing's security law and Article 23 crush Hong Kong autonomy and one country, two systems, argues de Krassel, recalling the 2003 and 2019 protests.
- [Twitter Twit’s Legal Twix | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/twitter-twits-legal-twix/): Analyzes how Trump's tweets, from branding the Russia probe a witch hunt to his Comey tapes threat, may amount to obstruction of justice.
- [Protests, Protests Everywhere | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/hongkong/protests-protests-everywhere/): From Hong Kong to Chile, Lebanon, Iraq and France, de Krassel finds Real Change becoming a global protest chant amid Hong Kong's worst unrest.
- [Trifecta of Wednesdays That Define America | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/trump/trifecta-of-wednesdays-that-define-america/): Three January 2021 Wednesdays, the Capitol riot, Trump's impeachment and Biden's inauguration, weigh U.S. democracy against Russia's Navalny crackdown.
- [America and Hong Kong in Same Political Hot Pot with Different Fused Electoral Sauces | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/2020-election/america-and-hong-kong-in-same-political-hot-pot-with-different-fused-electoral-sauces/): De Krassel compares the 2020 election in America and Hong Kong, where young activists back Trump to pressure China while elders favor Biden.
- [America and China Must Find a Way to Cooperate | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/america-and-china-must-find-a-way-to-cooperate/): America and China – are in the same political boat. Something both countries must address honestly after the U. S. presidential election – no matter who wins – to prevent both boats from sinking.
- [The Notorious Equalizer – R.B.G. | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/ruth-bader-ginsburg/the-notorious-equalizer-r-b-g/): Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Jewish legal trailblazer, died on the eve of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah 5781.
- [Behind Closed Doors | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/europe/behind-closed-doors/): Peter G. de Krassel attacks secret dealmaking behind the EU's 750 billion euro Covid recovery plan and pharma's pandemic profiteering.
- [TOP GOAL OF NEXT HK CE: HOUSING | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/hongkong/top-goal-of-next-hk-ce-housing-am-i-being-bitchy-or-is-my-request-reasonable/): Argues Hong Kong's next Chief Executive must fix housing: taxing 190,000 vacant flats and tapping HK$1.5 trillion reserves over developer collusion.
- [Healthy Air Needed for US-China Space | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/healthy-air-needed-for-us-china-space/): Calls for U.S.-China cooperation on pandemic origins, climate and space, from joint WHO reform to shared moon and Mars missions.
- [Hong Kong Redox | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/hongkong/hong-kong-redox/): Traces Hong Kong's protests to developer-landlord monopolies and urges economic and political round tables Carrie Lam's dialogue cannot deliver.
- [America-Asia First! | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/america-asia-first/): Reviews Trump's Asia tour and arms sales to Japan and South Korea, urging partnership with China over containment to curb North Korea.
- [Is Communist Party Power Struggle Spilling Onto Streets of Hong Kong? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/is-communist-party-power-struggle-spilling-onto-streets-of-hong-kong/): Questions whether Lee Henley Hu Xiang's arrest, tied to his testimony against Bo Xilai, masks a Party power struggle behind Hong Kong's protests.
- [Biden Should Rethink Hong Kong Policy | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/biden-should-rethink-hong-kong-policy/): Urges Biden to drop Trump's Made in China labeling of Hong Kong goods and honor the 1992 Hong Kong Policy Act and the WTO's 2022 ruling.
- [2017-2018 – Years of Fears & Tears | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/foreign-policy/2017-2018-years-of-fears-tears/): Peter G. de Krassel surveys 2017 and 2018 crises from Charlottesville to Syria and Yemen, urging citizens toward voting and peaceful protest.
- [Taiwan War of Unintended Consequences | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/taiwan-war-of-unintended-consequences/): Warns Biden and Xi risk accidental war over Taiwan after Pelosi's visit, 71 PLA aircraft in a day and a $10 billion arms package.
- [Sino-American War of Unintended Consequences | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/sino-american-war-of-unintended-consequences/): Trump and Xi flex naval power in the South China Sea and Taiwan Strait, from Blue Sea 2020 to the Liaoning, risking an accidental war.
- [Bail Out People First, Not Corporations | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/economics/bail-out-people-first-not-corporations/): Contends Covid bailouts should aid workers and small firms, 83% of U.S. payrolls, not the airlines, cruise lines and oil giants seeking rescue.
- [Afghanistan War Must End — It’s a Loser | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/afghanistan-war-must-end-its-a-loser/): de Krassel calls America's 17-year Afghanistan war unwinnable, citing 2,200 dead, $840 billion spent and growing Taliban control.
- [America’s Human & Physical Infrastructure is Third World | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/federal-government/americas-human-physical-infrastructure-is-third-world/): Argues Covid exposed America's third world infrastructure, praising Newsom and Cuomo as the Javits Center and Navy hospital ships filled gaps.
- [Presidents Appoint Supreme Court Judges | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/federal-government/presidents-appoint-supreme-court-judges/): Article II gives presidents the right to nominate Supreme Court justices regardless of election timing; the Garland and Barrett fights show the clash.
- [Super Monday and Tuesday Surprises | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/super-monday-and-tuesday-surprises/): Israel's third 2020 election and America's Super Tuesday, with Netanyahu, Gantz, and Biden's surge, show how free elections deliver surprises.
- [A Bipolar Partnership for New World Disorder: American Democracy and Chinese Autocracy | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/a-bipolar-partnership-for-new-world-disorder-american-democracy-and-chinese-autocracy/): De Krassel proposes a bipolar order where America leads democracies and China leads autocracies, cooperating on climate, pandemics, and arms control.
- [“I Can’t Breathe.” | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/racism/i-cant-breathe/): George Floyd's 2020 killing and his words 'I can't breathe' ignite global protests on police racism, echoing Eric Garner and Black Lives Matter.
- [Time to Change Cancel Culture | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/civil-rights/time-to-change-cancel-culture/): Peter G. de Krassel argues cancel culture has become illiberal, dogmatic identity politics that threatens free speech and open debate after George Floyd.
- [Iran’s New Makeup — Women Redux | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/international-law/irans-new-makeup-women-redux/): Peter G. de Krassel backs Iran's women and youth shedding headscarves in protest, linking regime change to Hezbollah, Hamas, Ukraine, and nuclear fears.
- [Crazy Capitalist Autocracies | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/crazy-capitalist-autocracies/): Asian prosperity flows from capitalism and a culture of education and wealth, not politics, from Hong Kong's billionaires to the Financial Leaders Summit.
- [ASEAN is Over & Done! | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/asean-is-over-done/): ASEAN is destined to fracture like the EU as China's bilateral diplomacy divides its members, with Duterte and South China Sea tensions in focus.
- [Killer Kisser and Thrilla in Manila | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/killer-kisser-and-thrilla-in-manila/): Philippine leader Duterte, likened to Trump, lets a Seoul stage kiss overshadow $4.8 billion in deals and South China Sea threats, per de Krassel.
- [Philippine Follies | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/philippine-follies/): Duterte's tilt toward China and a shelved 2016 tribunal ruling let Beijing dominate the South China Sea as U.S. bases at Subic and Clark fade away.
- [The Great Wall | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/the-great-wall/): Border walls cannot stop migration, this piece argues, citing Nixon's 1972 Great Wall visit, Ellis Island, and billions wasted on the U.S.-Mexico border.
- [Failed Empires | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/failed-empires/): America risks the fate of fallen empires like Athens and Egypt unless inequality and corruption yield to a constitutional truce between rich and workers.
- [Stop the Blame Game | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/stop-the-blame-game/): September 30 is the last day America’s federal debt limit has to be agreed to by Congress and the White House. Hence, the blame game is already underway!
- [Hot War Percolating in South China Sea | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/hot-war-percolating-in-south-china-sea/): This was brought home by the December 21 “near miss” between a Chinese Shenyang J-11BHS jet fighter and U.S. RC-135 surveillance plane.
- [Troubled Waters | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/troubled-waters/): Biden takes a firmer line on China across the South China Sea, East China Sea, and Taiwan Strait, with carrier deployments and calls for urgent diplomacy.
- [Neighborhood Bully | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/neighborhood-bully/): Commentaries about Israel’s new Netanyahu government, criticism of Israeli government officials visiting the Temple Mount, the holiest of Jewish sites.
- [Cyber Wars | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/cyber-wars/): Cyber warfare has replaced the battlefield, tracing Chinese, Iranian, and Russian hacking of Boeing and T-Mobile and the Obama, Xi trade secrets deal.
- [Time Out for Animals – Not Political Animals | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/time-out-for-animals-not-political-animals/): A 6,000-strong Hong Kong animal rights march led by Roy Kwong spurs a call to modernize the 1935 cruelty law and put animal welfare above partisanship.
- [Love One Another | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/love-one-another/): After the Parkland shooting, Peter G. de Krassel urges Americans to unite across divisions and back gun background checks over party and NRA loyalty.
- [Russia Must Be Challenged and Stopped! | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/russia-must-be-challenged-and-stopped/): Russia's aggression, from 2016 election meddling to seized Ukrainian ships and Crimea, demands sanctions rather than war, argues Peter G. de Krassel.
- [Trump Triple Decker Legal Sandwich | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/trump-triple-decker-legal-sandwich/): Trump's legal exposure from Mueller's Russia probe: the Cohen and Manafort convictions, the impeachment path, and why the 2018 midterms decide his fate.
- [Iranian and Russian Flavored Empanadas Eaten in Venezuela | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/iranian-and-russian-flavored-empanadas-eaten-in-venezuela/): How Iran, Russia and China each risk billions propping up Maduro's Venezuela, echoing Assad's Syria, and the case against U.S. military intervention.
- [Russophobia | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/russophobia/): Russian election meddling is routine statecraft, not new; with 90% of nuclear arms held by the U.S. and Russia, Trump and Putin must talk without hysteria.
- [Golan Heights, it’s About Iran & Russia Stupid! | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/golan-heights-its-about-iran-russia-stupid/): U.S. recognition of the Golan Heights as Israeli is really about containing Iran and Russia in Syria, not just aiding Netanyahu, argues Peter G. de Krassel.
- [Korea, One Country Two Systems? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/foreign-policy/korea-one-country-two-systems/): Why German and Vietnamese reunification models fail Korea, and how a modified Hong Kong 'One Country, Two Systems' framework could bridge North and South.
- [U.N. is Outdated Irrelevant Dinosaur | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/foreign-policy/u-n-is-outdated-irrelevant-dinosaur/): The United Nations is an outdated failure of failed peace missions, resolutions, squandered billions of dollars, and failed corrupt politicians and bureaucrats.
- [Anti-Semitism and China Bashing | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/anti-semitism-and-china-bashing/): Peter G. de Krassel links rising anti-Semitism and China-bashing to economic anxiety, tracing shared hate from 1870s slurs to Kanye West and 'Kung Flu.'
- [We Can and Must Overcome Racism | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/we-can-and-must-overcome-racism/): A call for the U.S. President to be Healer-In-Chief against racism, citing Roseanne Barr's tweet, the Starbucks profiling case, and a looming cultural war.
- [Time America and China De-nuke North Korea | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/time-america-and-china-de-nuke-north-korea/): Xi and Biden should lead five-party talks to denuclearize North Korea, offering Kim Jong-un a face-saving exit and cross-border economic zones.
- [Beer for Two Needy Global Partners | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/beer-for-two-needy-global-partners/): Biden and Xi should build on their Bali G-20 summit and their envoys' climate breakthrough, cooperating as top trading partners rather than seeking rivalry.
- [Jiang Zemin’s Spirit and Style Can Reignite Sino-US Cooperation | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/jiang-zemins-spirit-and-style-can-reignite-sino-us-cooperation/): Jiang Zemin's Western-friendly style, from WTO entry to reciting the Gettysburg Address, is the model Xi needs to revive Sino-US ties, says de Krassel.
- [Palestinian Self-Destructive Myths | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/economics/palestinian-self-destructive-myths/): I was made in Palestine. My parents met there, got married there and I was conceived there. So the subject of Palestine and Palestinians naturally interested me
- [Turkey is Not a Thanksgiving Turkey | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/europe/turkey-is-not-a-thanksgiving-turkey/): The Erdogan-Macron feud reveals Turkey as a rising power rebuilding an Ottoman-style empire, clashing with France over Libya, Cyprus and Aegean gas.
- [No Room for Kung Flu Fighting | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/no-room-for-kung-flu-fighting/): Trump and Xi's COVID-19 blame game endangers both economies; the U.S. and China must cooperate on the pandemic, notes de Krassel, citing the Hawaii talks.
- [America First, Britain Second | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/america-first-britain-second/): Trump erred choosing Bastille Day in France over a British state visit; the Anglo-American bond is vital to countering China, argues Peter G. de Krassel.
- [The EU Was DOA | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/the-eu-was-doa/): The EU was doomed from birth, argues de Krassel: 23 languages, 15 currencies, a welfare-state divide, and the failed 2005 constitution all foretold Brexit.
- [Brexit, Scotland Exit & UK Split | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/brexit-scotland-exit-uk-split/): Brexit could break up the UK by fueling Scottish independence; a poll shows 53% back a split under Boris Johnson, and Gordon Brown warns of huge risk.
- [Iceland Models to End Cold War & Jail Bankers | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/iceland-models-to-end-cold-war-jail-bankers/): Iceland offers two models: the 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev Reykjavik summit that helped end the Cold War, and jailing 36 bankers after 2008 instead of bailouts.
- [Weather to Remember & Think About – Climate Change? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/weather-to-remember-think-about-climate-change/): Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, Puerto Rico's blackout and twin quakes make the case climate change is real; de Krassel asks why denial persists.
- [Climate Change – A Planetary Disaster? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/climate-change/climate-change-a-planetary-disaster/): Peter G. de Krassel urges the U.S. and China to uphold the Paris Agreement, citing Greenland ice loss and Florida flooding under Trump and Bush.
- [Climate Change is An Existential Threat | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/climate-change-is-an-existential-threat/): Calling climate change humanity's gravest threat, de Krassel cites Arctic melt, Greenland sea rise, and Richard Muller's data, urging 2020 action.
- [Jerusalem, Israel’s Capital. Really!? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/jerusalem-israels-capital-really/): Peter G. de Krassel defends Trump's move of the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem, citing 3,000 years of Jewish history and the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act.
- [Hamas-Israel Conflict is the Canary in America’s Political Mine | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/hamas-israel-conflict-is-the-canary-in-americas-political-mine/): After Lieberman's 2018 resignation, de Krassel casts Hamas and a 1991 Muslim Brotherhood memo as warnings of a threat to Western civilization.
- [Homeland Insecurity – The Need for More Gun Controls | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/homeland-insecurity-the-need-for-more-gun-controls/): After the 2017 Las Vegas massacre, de Krassel presses for gun control: banning bump stocks, safe storage, and background checks despite the NRA.
- [America Must Stop Funding Palestinian Terrorists | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/america-must-stop-funding-palestinian-terrorists/): The Taylor Force Act should end U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority until Abbas stops paying terrorists' families, argues Peter G. de Krassel.
- [To Meet, or Not to Meet, To Bomb, or Not to Bomb, or Meet & Bomb? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/to-meet-or-not-to-meet-to-bomb-or-not-to-bomb-or-meet-bomb/): Trump should meet Kim Jong-un for phased denuclearization, with military force only a last resort and China enforcing peace, contends de Krassel.
- [Talk Turkey! | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/talk-turkey/): Turkey under Erdogan has abandoned Ataturk's secular legacy for authoritarian ambition in Syria, writes de Krassel, urging rights for Kurds and press.
- [Diplomacy, Rodman Style? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/foreign-policy/diplomacy-rodman-style/): With career diplomacy failing, de Krassel suggests Dennis Rodman's basketball visits to Kim Jong-un could coax North Korea to the negotiating table.
- [Is America Kim’s Kimchi? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/is-america-kims-kimchi/): Kim Jong-un, again backed by China, will likely outmaneuver Trump in denuclearization talks as he did past presidents, warns Peter G. de Krassel.
- [The UN is a Laughing Matter | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/the-un-is-a-laughing-matter/): Peter G. de Krassel derides the UN as unaccountable, citing peacekeeper sexual abuse in Congo, legal immunity, and the U.S. Human Rights Council exit.
- [Freezing & Chocking | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/freezing-chocking/): From frigid Ulan Bator, de Krassel dismisses warming deniers and urges the U.S. to rejoin the Paris accord before China dominates the climate debate.
- [NATO OR NOT TO? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/federal-government/nato-or-not-to/): NATO must reform to counter Russia with larger European budgets but should not expand further, argues de Krassel, citing Kosovo and Afghanistan.
- [Busting Up Old World Deep State Order | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/busting-up-old-world-deep-state-order/): Trump's clashes at the 2018 G7 and his UN exits dismantle an obsolete deep state order, argues de Krassel, pointing to the Shanghai Cooperation bloc.
- [Just a crowded street | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/work/just-a-crowded-street/): A portfolio work entry on the Custom Maid Books site featuring a flat lay of creative desk cards, part of Peter G. de Krassel's showcase gallery.
- [Don’t miss our next event | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/work/dont-miss-our-next-event/): A sample work portfolio entry on Custom Maid Books showing a gold polka dot planner image, part of Peter G. de Krassel's site showcase gallery.
- [A day at the office | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/work/a-day-at-the-office/): A portfolio work entry on Custom Maid Books featuring a top down desk workspace image, part of Peter G. de Krassel's site showcase gallery.
- [How it all began | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/work/hello-world-2/): Placeholder introductory post in the Work section of Peter G. de Krassel's Custom Maid Books site, currently populated with template filler text.
- [China Spyware Beware! | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/china-spyware-beware/): Zhang Yujing's arrest at Mar-a-Lago shows how China's clumsy espionage backfires, feeding U.S. critics and weakening its trade negotiating position.
- [America’s Check Balances | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/americas-check-balances/): Argues Congress should drop partisan probes over Mueller, the Steele dossier and Clinton's emails to legislate on jobs, healthcare and immigration.
- [AIR Triangulation of Iran | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/air-triangulation-of-iran/): Trump, Putin and Netanyahu diplomacy as an America, Israel, Russia alignment to force Iranian forces out of Syria after the Helsinki summit.
- [Fake News Generational Damage — Armageddon | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/fake-news-generational-damage-armageddon/): Warns that social media fake news inflicts generational harm, urging penalties for 'Fake Speech' and fact-checking to protect fact-based debate.
- [Easter Mass–acre | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/easter-mass-acre/): After Sri Lanka's Easter bombings and the Christchurch mosque attacks, calls for education on religious tolerance rather than military force alone.
- [Political Systems Are Rigged | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/political-systems-are-rigged/): Contends every political system favors wealthy elites, citing the Barr hearings, Hong Kong's extradition fight and Brexit as scripted partisan theater.
- [Iran’s Aggressive Expansion Must Be Stopped | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/irans-aggressive-expansion-must-be-stopped/): Iran's nuclear ambitions and proxies like Hezbollah and the Houthis demand a U.S., Israeli and Gulf response, with young Iranians seeking regime change.
- [Change, Real Change We Can Believe In! | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/change-real-change-we-can-believe-in/): Credits Trump's foreign policy, from China tariffs to Kim Jong-un talks, as real change, with Bolton and Pompeo pressing adversaries to honor deals.
- [Is Free Speech Free? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/is-free-speech-free/): Using Andy Chan in Hong Kong and Trump revoking Brennan's clearance, argues free speech is curbed by the powerful when it carries real consequences.
- [Time to Reflect & Unite — Domestically and With China | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/time-to-reflect-unite-domestically-and-with-china/): Invokes George H.W. Bush's compromise to urge U.S. and China unity on fair trade, tackling the $376 billion deficit and technology theft disputes.
- [The Rule of Law | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/the-rule-of-law/): Holds that America's rule of law bends for the powerful, citing Michael Cohen, the Clinton Foundation, the Trump Foundation and James Comey.
- [Washington Political Super Bowl | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/washington-political-super-bowl/): Peter G. de Krassel uses Super Bowl LIII to frame Washington gridlock, casting Pelosi's defense against Trump amid the 35-day government shutdown.
- [No Deal Brexit Looms | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/no-deal-brexit-looms/): Predicts a no-deal Brexit as Nigel Farage's Brexit Party tops the European elections and Tory contenders vow to leave by October 31st.
- [Anti-Semitism and China Trumping | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/anti-semitism-and-china-trumping/): Traces rising anti-Semitism and anti-Chinese scapegoating from 1870s racism to Buford Furrow's 1999 attack, driven by economic anxiety and fear.
- [The U.S. and China Need Each Other to Delay Revolutionary Changes | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/the-u-s-and-china-need-each-other-to-delay-revolutionary-changes/): Argues Trump and Xi must strike fair deals, starting with North Korea, to avert revolution at home, invoking Tocqueville and China's Red Aristocrats.
- [Buy and Hire American | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/buy-and-hire-american/): Peter G. de Krassel argues the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act's 'make it in America' rule goes unenforced, urging Trump to use march-in rights for U.S. jobs.
- [Time to Unite After the Bitter Fight | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/time-to-unite-after-the-bitter-fight/): After the record $5 billion 2018 midterms, the piece calls for bipartisan action on healthcare, infrastructure, immigration, and U.S.-China trade.
- [Democrats and American Democracy | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/democrats-and-american-democracy/): With 18 diverse candidates in the 2020 primary, Democrats embody democracy while Republicans consolidate behind Trump; abolish the Electoral College.
- [Shutdown Is a Political Lockdown – and – OUT! | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/shutdown-political-lockdown/): Casts government shutdowns as distractions from a fiscal crisis, proposing pay-for-performance salaries tied to Treasury bonds for elected leaders.
- [Revolutionary Lesson | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/revolutionary-lesson/): Applying Tocqueville's study of the 1789 French Revolution, Peter G. de Krassel warns China's 0.61 Gini gap and mass unrest risk upheaval.
- [Wind Up & Restructure The U.N. | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/wind-up-restructure-the-u-n/): Branding the U.N. a $20 billion annual failure since the 1956 Suez crisis, the author urges replacing it with a council of major civilizations.
- [The middle way | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/columns/the-middle-way/): Browse Peter G. de Krassel's Middle Way column archive of commentary on U.S.-China relations, democracy, war, racism, and current affairs.
- [Republican Tax Fraud! | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/foreign-policy/republican-tax-fraud/): Urging a veto, the author faults the GOP tax bill for making the 35% to 21% corporate cut permanent while individual relief expires in eight years.
- [People Power | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/people-power/): Populism as revolt against elites: the essay ties Brexit, Trump's win, and the Macron vs Le Pen race to social media empowering excluded voters.
- [Why Afghanistan is America’s Longest War | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/why-afghanistan-is-americas-longest-war/): Citing the Washington Post's Afghanistan Papers, the piece argues officials lied about an unwinnable war fought mainly to check China's Belt and Road.
- [No Room for Religious Intolerance in New World Order | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/no-room-for-religious-intolerance-in-new-world-order/): Religious extremism endangers secular democracy: cases from Indonesia's blasphemy jailings to Flynn and Sessions show faith encroaching on law.
- [A Two-Horse Race With A Wagging Dog on the Horizon | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/a-two-horse-race-with-a-wagging-dog-on-the-horizon/): The 2020 primary was a fixed two-horse race steered to Biden over Sanders, with a Wag the Dog fear that Trump may start a war to win reelection.
- [Assad and Putin Are War Criminals | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/assad-and-putin-are-war-criminals/): Assad and Putin belong on trial like Milosevic and Charles Taylor, the author argues, for bombing Idlib civilians and driving Syrians into Turkey.
- [Back In the USSR | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/back-in-the-ussr/): Posted July 4, the essay hails political outsiders like McCain, Flake, and Ocasio-Cortez as proof of Arizona's streak and a Third American Revolution.
- [Nowhere America | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/state-politics/nowhere-america/): A drive to Prescott reveals a struggling rural 'Nowhere America' backing Trump out of anger at elites, amid decay, opioids, and crumbling roads.
- [America’s Infrastructure First! | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/state-politics/americas-infrastructure-first/): Peter G. de Krassel backs Trump's $1 trillion plan to rebuild dilapidated U.S. infrastructure, warning China's Belt and Road is racing ahead.
- [Justice? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/justice/): The essay decries a politicized Supreme Court after Kennedy's retirement, tracing the Kavanaugh fight and the 2016 blockade of Merrick Garland.
- [To Be or Not To Be — An American | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/state-politics/to-be-or-not-to-be-an-american/): Defending 14th Amendment birthright citizenship, the author rebuts calls to repeal it, citing the Obama 'Birther' saga and the Ted Cruz eligibility suit.
- [Bashar al-Assad Is a War Criminal | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/foreign-affairs/bashar-al-assad-is-a-war-criminal/): Peter G. de Krassel argues Bashar al-Assad be indicted as a war criminal, citing the Khan Sheikhoun sarin attack and the U.S. strike on Shayrat air base.
- [DACA and Why Schumer & Pelosi Are Laughing | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/federal-government/daca-and-why-schumer-pelosi-are-laughing/): Why Schumer and Pelosi win either way after Trump handed DACA to Congress before the 2018 midterms, turning Dreamers into leverage over Republicans.
- [Moderate Islam Is The Answer | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/moderate-islam-is-the-answer/): Indonesia's Wasatiyyah, or Middle Way Islam championed by Ma'ruf Amin, is offered as an antidote to extremism from the Wahhabis, Hamas and Saudi Arabia.
- [Palestinian Reality & Self-Destructive Refugee Myths | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/palestinian-reality-self-destructive-refugee-myths/): Peter G. de Krassel disputes Palestinian refugee numbers, UNRWA funding and the 1948 narrative, arguing myths, not facts, block a lasting Middle East peace.
- [Is Covid-19 Mother Nature’s Way of Warning Us to Stop Climate Change? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/climate-change/is-covid-19-mother-natures-way-of-warning-us-to-stop-climate-change/): Covid-19 lockdowns cut China's emissions 25 percent, framed by Peter G. de Krassel as Mother Nature's warning to turn pandemic urgency into climate action.
- [Global Multi-Trillion Dollar Panic & Lockdown | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/hongkong/global-multi-trillion-dollar-panic-lockdown/): Pandemic lockdowns backfire as jam-packed airport terminals expose returning Hong Kong travelers to the virus, argues de Krassel on government overreaction.
- [Before airlines take to the skies again, assess their role in climate change | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/before-airlines-take-to-the-skies-again-assess-their-role-in-climate-change/): Before airlines fly again and take bailouts, de Krassel demands cabin ventilation, aviation fuel taxes and emission controls to curb their climate toll.
- [Time U.S. & Saudis Push Iran Past The Brink | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/time-u-s-saudis-push-iran-past-the-brink/): De Krassel urges the U.S. and Saudis to back Iranian regime change, citing protests, a young population and Tehran's funding of Hezbollah and Hamas.
- [US tax reform could have strong effect on HK | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/columns/us-tax-reform-could-have-strong-effect-on-hk/): The 2017 U.S. tax cut could drain offshore funds from Hong Kong, push up HIBOR rates and threaten property prices, forcing the city to reinvent its economy.
- [Taiwan Folly, Trade War & Taiwan War? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/taiwan-folly-trade-war-taiwan-war/): America can win a trade war with China but would lose a war over Taiwan, argues de Krassel, warning the Taiwan Travel Act breaches the One China policy.
- [Kim and North Korea in Deep Kimche | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/korean/kim-and-north-korea-in-deep-kimche/): Speculation on Kim Jong-un's April 2020 disappearance: his health, Covid vulnerability and succession scenarios featuring sister Kim Yo Jong in North Korea.
- [D.C. Lawyers, Lawyers Everywhere, Not a Dime to Spare Anywhere! | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/d-c-lawyers-lawyers-everywhere-not-a-dime-to-spare-anywhere/): A former D.C. lawyer, Peter G. de Krassel decries the millions spent on the Mueller probe and Trump's legal battles, money he says belongs in schools.
- [Pot Calling the Kettle Black | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/pot-calling-the-kettle-black/): China spotlights the Ahmaud Arbery killing while its own Covid-era mistreatment of Africans in Guangzhou's 'Little Africa' goes underreported.
- [America-Philippines Second? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/foreign-policy/america-philippines-second/): Duterte's Philippines is cast as a bridge between the U.S. and China, easing South China Sea tensions after Trump's 2017 Asia tour rapprochement.
- [Linsanity Metaphor for Sino-U.S. Relations | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/linsanity-metaphor-for-sino-u-s-relations/): Jeremy Lin's path from Linsanity to the Beijing Shougang Ducks mirrors fraying U.S.-China relations and a talent brain drain, Peter G. de Krassel contends.
- [Japan Committing Climate Harakari | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/japan-committing-climate-harakari/): Japan undercuts global climate goals with post-Fukushima coal reliance and plans to dump radioactive Fukushima water into the Pacific, de Krassel warns.
- [Greedy property developers to blame for discontent | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/columns/greedy-property-developers-to-blame-for-discontent/): Peter G. de Krassel argues that greedy Hong Kong property developers and sky-high housing costs are fueling public discontent and unrest.
- [Japan — America’s Asia Ally? Why? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/japan-americas-asia-ally-why/): With Mattis in Tokyo and Abe courting Trump, de Krassel argues America should abandon Japan and pivot toward a rising China.
- [Jericho Walls That Came Tumbling Down | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/jericho-walls-that-came-tumbling-down/): From Jericho to the Great Wall to Trump's border wall, this essay argues barriers never stop migration and champions smart-ID cards instead.
- [Climate Vortex | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/climate-vortex-2/): Arctic ice gone by 2030, seas rising meters, methane from Siberia: this piece calls climate change humanity's biggest threat, citing Richard Muller.
- [Whatever Japan Does For America, China Can do Bigger and Better | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/whatever-japan-does-for-america-china-can-do-bigger-and-better/): China builds more cars, offers bigger markets, and outpaces a stagnant Japan: de Krassel urges Washington to make Beijing its real Asian partner.
- [Peace? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/federal-government/peace/): Can Trump broker Israeli-Palestinian peace? de Krassel doubts it, pointing to Mahmoud Abbas, Hamas, and how the US once forced Mexico to cede its land.
- [America’s Healthcare Is An Embarrassing Disgrace | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/state-politics/americas-healthcare-is-an-embarrassing-disgrace/): AHCA would strip coverage from 24 million while Hong Kong treats patients for under $15: de Krassel makes the case for universal healthcare.
- [Time Long Overdue to Legalize Illegals | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/time-long-overdue-to-legalize-illegals/): Meeting Vicente Fox at Canter's Deli, de Krassel argues for legalizing undocumented immigrants through registration, fines, and employer enforcement.
- [Abolish IRS and Tax Code | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/abolish-irs-and-tax-code/): Citing the Tea Party targeting scandal and Jesse Ventura, this column calls to abolish the IRS and let 50 state agencies collect federal taxes.
- [Kamala Harris, Living the American Dream | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/america/kamala-harris-living-the-american-dream/): Born in Oakland to Indian and Jamaican parents, Kamala Harris rose from SF prosecutor to VP nominee: de Krassel calls her the American Dream realized.
- [Ike Was Right | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/ike-wasright/): Eisenhower's warning on the military-industrial complex still holds: de Krassel faults Trump's generals and South China Sea patrols, urging China ties.
- [Constructive dialogue key to conflict resolution – CHINA DAILY HK EDITION | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/columns/constructive-dialogue-key-conflict-resolution/): Recalling Hong Kong's 1966 Star Ferry riots and 1967 unrest, de Krassel argues Occupy Central disputes need dialogue, not social-media shouting.
- [Climate Vortex | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/climate-vortex/): After Climategate and 75,000 cancelled flights, this column warns of a four-degree world, ice-free Arctic, and drowned cities, citing Graeme Maxton.
- [Super Bowl, Soccer and Immigration | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/super-bowl-soccer-immigration/): Just as foreign players lifted England's Premier League, immigrants power US farms and Silicon Valley: this piece backs reform, quoting Bloomberg.
- [China’s Axis of Trade Based in Hong Kong | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/chinas-axis-of-trade-based-in-hong-kong/): To counter the TPP, de Krassel proposes a China Axis of Trade routed through Hong Kong, linking Europe and Latin America and excluding America.
- [Is The HKJC a Charity or Gambling Monopoly? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/is-the-hkjc-a-charity-or-gambling-monopoly/): A charity or a gambling monopoly dodging tax? de Krassel traces the Hong Kong Jockey Club's colonial roots and asks who should collect its revenue.
- [Crazy Capitalist Communist Democracy | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/crazy-capitalist-communist-democracy/): Communist China and democratic Singapore both breed crazy rich elites: de Krassel argues culture, not political system, drives wealth in Asia.
- [Tycoons should recycle their wealth back into HK | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/tycoons-should-recycle-their-wealth-back-into-hk/): As talent flees to Shenzhen and the PMI sinks, de Krassel urges Hong Kong tycoons to reinvest at home in housing and schools, not foreign universities.
- [Super Bowl Champ – America | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/super-bowl-champ-america/): American resilience told through sports: John Elway's comebacks and Cal Ripken's 2,632 straight games cast the nation as the Super Bowl champ of nations.
- [Unsolicited Advice to Former Client – President-Elect Donald Trump | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/unsolicited-advice-to-former-client-president-elect-donald-trump/): Peter G. de Krassel, once Trump's lawyer on a 1990s Shanghai Trump Tower deal, advises the President-elect on war, climate, taxes and U.S.-Sino ties.
- [Second Term Blues | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/second-term-blues/): Obama's second term faces GOP obstruction: IRS, Benghazi and AP probes, the Rice and Hagel nominations and impeachment talk, echoing Clinton's fate.
- [Karate Chop Japan | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/foreign-policy/karate-chop-japan/): Argues the U.S. should drop Japan for China, citing the 2010 Diaoyu Islands trawler clash, China's rare earth grip and Japan's economic decline.
- [Dysfunctional Political Swamp | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/dysfunctional-political-swamp/): James Comey's firing and looming testimony expose a Washington swamp where health care, tax reform and jobs stall amid Trump-era political warfare.
- [How to Denuke North Korea | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/how-to-denuke-north-korea/): Peter G. de Krassel proposes a five-nation plan to denuclearize North Korea via special economic zones, a Kim Jong-un exile and Korean reunification.
- [Health Care for All | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/hongkong/health-care-for-all/): A $6 Hong Kong medical checkup anchors the case for U.S. universal health care, blaming the Medical Industry Complex and bought-off career politicians.
- [China is Porked! | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/china-is-porked/): African swine fever wipes out some 200 million Chinese pigs, doubling pork prices and rattling the economy ahead of China's 70th anniversary.
- [Impeachment, a Disunited States of America | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/impeachment-a-disunited-states-of-america/): Contends Trump's impeachment inquiry dangerously divides America, invoking Andrew Jackson's 1834 censure and urging censure over removal for unity.
- [Americans Have Much to Be Thankful For | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/americans-have-much-to-be-thankful-for/): A Thanksgiving reflection tracing the 1621 Plymouth feast and Washington's 1789 proclamation, weighing American freedoms against uncomfortable history.
- [China’s Numbers Don’t Add Up | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/chinas-numbers-dont-add-up/): Questions China's under 4,600 COVID death count, pointing to Wuhan urn deliveries, a China-centric WHO and frauds at Luckin Coffee and TAL Education.
- [Are We Alone? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/are-we-alone/): Makes the case for taking UFOs seriously, citing declassified 2004 Navy pilot videos, To the Stars Academy and a Sedona abduction tour with night vision.
- [Onion, an Easy Cure for Covid-19 | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/covid-19/onion-an-easy-cure-for-covid-19/): Proposes onion compresses as a cheap COVID-19 remedy, urging the USDA and USAID to distribute onions to Americans and abroad while vaccines develop.
- [Korean Nuclear Crisis, Syria War Crimes and Hezbollah are U.N.’s Fault | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/korean-nuclear-crisis-syria-war-crimes-and-hezbollah-are-u-n-s-fault/): Blames the U.N. for North Korea's nukes, Syria's atrocities and Hezbollah, citing the 1953 Armistice and urging the U.S. to suspend its U.N. funding.
- [Tea for Two Needy Global Partners | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/tea-for-two-needy-global-partners/): The April 2017 Trump-Xi summit at Mar-a-Lago yields a 100-day trade plan, a shrinking deficit and Chinese rail investment, framing U.S.-China cooperation.
- [Amateur Hour @ Reinventville 7’s | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/hongkong/amateur-hour-reinventville-7s/): Peter G. de Krassel says amateur bureaucratic management of the Hong Kong Sevens is costing the city its status as Asia's entertainment capital.
- [Back to America | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/foreign-policy/back-to-america/): Peter G. de Krassel contrasts global turmoil, from the Rohingya crisis to Mideast conflict, with U.S. scandals, defending America's free speech.
- [Media Moguls Shoot Out in Arizona | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/media-moguls-shoot-out-in-arizona/): Trump and Bloomberg, rival New York media moguls, battle for Arizona as a 2020 swing state, from the Nevada debate to a Phoenix rally and border politics.
- [Year of Law and New World Disorder | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/year-of-law-and-new-world-disorder/): Law, not war, should settle U.S.-China disputes, de Krassel argues, citing the Patrick Ho bribery conviction, the ZTE and Huawei cases, and WTO tech rules.
- [Xi’s The Main Man Darin | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/xis-the-main-man-darin/): At the 2017 Party Congress, Xi Jinping wrote his name into China's constitution and Belt and Road, a power grab de Krassel warns could backfire.
- [Prostitutes and Politicians | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/prostitutes-and-politicians/): Writing from Manila, Peter G. de Krassel likens politicians to prostitutes who trade favors for campaign cash, set against Trump's 2019 impeachment.
- [New World Disorder | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/new-world-disorder-2/): From Hong Kong to Chile and Iraq, de Krassel maps a wave of global unrest and urges the U.S. to rejoin the climate fight, citing the COP25 summit in Madrid.
- [Indonesian Democracy Unites & Educates – A Model for America and Hong Kong? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/hongkong/indonesian-democracy-unites-educates-a-model-for-america-and-hong-kong/): Widodo's cabinet blends rivals like Prabowo with tech founders like Gojek's Nadiem Makarim, a unity model de Krassel commends to America and Hong Kong.
- [Alabama Political & Jobs Infrastructure Reconstruction | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/foreign-policy/alabama-political-jobs-infrastructure-reconstruction/): Doug Jones's 2017 upset over Roy Moore signals bipartisan renewal and a chance to rebuild America's third-world infrastructure, de Krassel writes.
- [One brick at a time | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/columns/one-brick-at-a-time/): Peter G. de Krassel's column archive on U.S.-China relations and current affairs, spanning Hong Kong, democracy, climate change, and global disorder.
- [Democracy alive and kicking despite some frustrations | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/columns/democracy-alive-and-kicking-despite-some-frustrations/): Peter G. de Krassel argues democracy remains alive and resilient despite its frustrations, drawing lessons from Hong Kong and world politics.
- [HK Police recognized for professionalism globally | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/hk-police-recognized-for-professionalism-globally/): A Custom Maid® column on the Hong Kong Police Force and how its professionalism has been recognized globally, by Peter G. de Krassel.
- [Shutdown to Default? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/shutdown-default/): Debt-ceiling brinkmanship in Congress imperils the dollar and punishes federal workers, de Krassel argues, urging the Bowles-Simpson deficit fix.
- [Trump Mongering | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/trump-mongering/): Both U.S. parties weaponize fear, and Trump rode existing anxieties rather than creating them, de Krassel argues, invoking Pittsburgh and Charlottesville.
- [Dangerous International Political Liaisons | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/dangerous-international-political-liaisons/): Russia's military ties to China, North Korea, Iran, and Syria risk a global hot war, de Krassel warns, spanning Ukraine, the Baltics, and North Korea.
- [Vietnam Wars, Who Really Won? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/vietnam-wars-who-really-won/): America and Vietnam, not China, won the Vietnam wars, de Krassel argues, citing the bloody 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War and factories moving to Vietnam.
- [Tariffs, Tariffs Everywhere, Not a Solution Anywhere | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/tariffs-tariffs-everywhere-not-a-solution-anywhere/): Tariffs fail as policy but their threat works, de Krassel argues, citing Trump's Mexico gambit, the Fordney-McCumber law, and the U.S.-China trade war.
- [America Shutdown Again? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/america-shutdown-again/): The December 2018 shutdown over Trump's border wall, which Pelosi dismissed as a beaded curtain, proves America's democracy is broken, de Krassel argues.
- [What Trade War? It’s About Economic and Military Hegemony, Stupid! | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/foreign-policy/what-trade-war-its-about-economic-and-military-hegemony-stupid/): The U.S.-China trade fight is really a contest for global dominance, de Krassel argues, spotlighting Made in China 2025 and Beijing's tech grabs like Kuka.
- [Bipolar World – U.S. and China Can Come Together | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/bipolar-world-u-s-and-china-can-come-together/): Peter G. de Krassel argues the U.S. and China must escape the Thucydides Trap through a Trump, Xi summit rather than deepen the trade war.
- [China, India, Pakistan — Triangulated Nuclear War Drums | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/china-india-pakistan-triangulated-nuclear-war-drums/): China, India and Pakistan's Kashmir and Doklam disputes, plus the Jaish-e-Mohammad bombing, risk a nuclear war that could kill billions.
- [Why Continue The Political Masquerade? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/why-continue-the-political-masquerade/): The Jewish holiday of Purim becomes a metaphor for Washington deception, as Congress and President Trump masquerade as the people's servants.
- [Beleaguered Friends in Need of A War | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/foreign-policy/beleaguered-friends-in-need-of-a-war/): Why Trump and Netanyahu's 2018 Oval Office meeting points toward war with Iran, a distraction from the criminal investigations dogging both men.
- [ICAC cannot battle corruption in SAR alone – CHINA DAILY HK EDITION | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/columns/icac-battle-corruption-sar-alone-china-daily-hk-edition/): Hong Kong's ICAC cannot fight graft alone: the Rafael Hui, Donald Tsang and Jimmy Lai cases show why mainland resolve like Xi Jinping's is needed.
- [Development of intellectual property is vital to our future | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/columns/development-of-intellectual-property-is-vital-to-our-future/): Hong Kong should pivot from real estate to become an intellectual property super zone, reforming education for critical thinking and IP protection.
- [Political Establishment Still Rules | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/political-establishment-still-rules/): March 2017 in parallel: Trump's failed healthcare repeal and Carrie Lam's selection over John Tsang show entrenched establishments still rule.
- [America Shutdown & Broken | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/america-shutdown-broken/): Recurring government shutdowns, from 2013's $24 billion hit to January 2018, expose a broken system where Congress gets paid while workers do not.
- [Are Kurds Abandoned or Betrayed? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/are-kurds-abandoned-or-betrayed/): The U.S. pullout from northern Syria left Kurds facing Erdogan and turning to Assad and Russia: right policy, de Krassel argues, betrayed by execution.
- [Trump Bridge to New World Order | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/trump-bridge-to-new-world-order/): Trump as a disruptive bridge to a bipolar world order: the Jerusalem embassy, TPP and Paris exits, China tariffs and Russia sanctions reshape power.
- [Saudi Arabia, a Cold-Blooded Unsustainable Murderous Kingdom | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/saudi-arabia-a-cold-blooded-unsustainable-murderous-kingdom/): After Jamal Khashoggi's murder, a case for restructuring U.S. ties to Saudi Arabia over Wahhabi terror funding, 9/11 and Yemen, via the Magnitsky Act.
- [French Kiss, Why Not British Cuddle? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/french-kiss-why-not-british-cuddle/): Why America should favor its historic British alliance over Macron's France, after Trump's Bastille Day embrace slighted PM Theresa May.
- [D.C. Lawyers, Lawyers Everywhere, Not a Dime to Spare Anywhere! | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/d-c-lawyers-lawyers-everywhere-not-a-dime-to-spareanywhere/): Washington's politically driven legal spending, from Mueller's probe to Michael Cohen and Manafort, drains millions better spent on schools.
- [America’s Human Capital First! | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/americas-human-capital-first/): A bipartisan case for vocational training and apprenticeships, championed by Ivanka Trump and modeled on Germany, to strengthen America's workforce.
- [Bridging The Trust Deficit | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/economics/bridging-the-trust-deficit/): Closing the U.S.-China trust deficit: the Xi Jinping and Obama Sunnylands summit, echoes of Nixon and Deng, and farm trade as a path to Pacific peace.
- [Malaysia A Democratic Muslim Model, Mahathir A Palestinian Peace Broker? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/malaysia-a-democratic-muslim-model-mahathir-a-palestinian-peace-broker/): Mahathir Mohamad's 2018 Malaysian win shows Islam and democracy can coexist, and could cast him as a Nixon-to-China broker for Palestinian peace.
- [Qatar Must Help Quash Hamas | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/qatar-must-help-quash-hamas/): Qatar hosts a major U.S. air base while funding Hamas: a call for Trump to press Emir Al-Thani to end terror financing amid the 2017 Gulf blockade.
- [Iran Nuclear Redux | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/iran-nuclear-redux/): Peter G. de Krassel backs Trump's refusal to certify the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, urging renegotiation over its silence on missiles and Hezbollah.
- [Racist America Is Not Changing | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/racist-america-is-not-changing/): Mississippi's 2018 Senate race and Cindy Hyde-Smith's 'public hanging' remark show entrenched racism persisting despite surface change in America.
- [The Horror of the War Crimes in Yemen | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/the-horror-of-the-war-crimes-in-yemen/): On Yemen's war, de Krassel details famine, the Hodeidah blockade and 50,000 dead, urging a US-European coalition to break the Saudi-Houthi siege.
- [Let U.N. Handle Refugees at Southern Border | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/let-u-n-handle-refugees-at-southern-border/): Calling caravan arrivals refugees, de Krassel says the UN, funded 22% by the U.S., should manage the southern border, not American taxpayers alone.
- [Fighting on the front lines in Hong Kong and Istanbul | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/columns/fighting-on-frontlines-in-hong-kong-and-istanbul/): Peter G. de Krassel connects the protest frontlines of Hong Kong and Istanbul, examining civil unrest and the fight for political rights.
- [Human Rights, Whose and Who Defines? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/human-rights-whose-and-who-defines/): Pompeo's Commission on Unalienable Rights risks narrowing rights; de Krassel warns it threatens women's and LGBTQ protections and U.S. credibility.
- [Tax Heaven | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/tax-heaven/): Trillions sit offshore: de Krassel presses for tax reform, a 15% corporate rate and a flat tax to repatriate profits hidden in global tax havens.
- [Trump’s Fed Legacy | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/trumps-fed-legacy/): Trump can fill four Federal Reserve seats; de Krassel weighs Yellen, Cohn, Warsh and Quarles, and Fischer's abrupt exit, for the middle class.
- [Shake & Bake Trump Style | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/shake-bake-trump-style/): Trump's disruptive 'shake and bake' politics upend Congress, the Mueller probe and Obamacare fights, winning either way in the midterms, argues de Krassel.
- [Greenhouse Gases Turning Greenland Green and Deadly | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/greenhouse-gases-turning-greenland-green-and-deadly/): Greenland's melting ice could release dormant pathogens like Spanish flu and anthrax from permafrost graves, de Krassel warns after visiting the thaw.
- [People Power Model | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/hongkong/people-power-model/): Hong Kong's 2019 extradition-bill protests become a People Power model, echoing America's civil rights era and testing the Basic Law and rule of law.
- [Debate Debacle | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/debate-debacle/): De Krassel pans the pre-Iowa 2020 Democratic debate as bland, notes no candidate of color took part, and cites Trump defending Bernie Sanders.
- [Happy, Healthy, Political 2020 | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/happy-healthy-political-2020/): Surveying 2019 unrest from Hong Kong to Chile, de Krassel calls voters to sweep out career politicians in 2020 and revive the Founders' revolt.
- [Custom Maid War | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/custom-maid-war/): Revisiting his 2005 book, de Krassel says Iraq will split in three and defends Trump's Iran pressure amid 2020 U.S.-Iran tensions and withdrawal calls.
- [South China Morning Post | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/south-china-morning-post/): Explore Peter G. de Krassel's writing on China and U.S.-China relations, from South China Sea tensions to prospects for Beijing and Washington to cooperate.
- [Hong Kong Democracy Trumps Beijing | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/hong-kong-democracy-trumps-beijing/): Hong Kong's November 2019 district polls gave pan-democrats 392 of 452 seats on 71.2% turnout, a rebuke to Beijing and Carrie Lam, de Krassel notes.
- [No Room for Anti-Semitism or Racism in America or the World | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/federal-government/no-room-for-anti-semitism-or-racism-in-america-or-the-world/): Condemning white supremacy after Charlottesville and the Boston Common counter-protest, de Krassel calls for unequivocal rejection of racist bigotry.
- [Impeachment — Disuniting States of America | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/impeachment-disuniting-states-of-america/): De Krassel warns the 2019 Trump impeachment over Ukraine divides America amid global crises, favoring censure over removal as partisan lines harden.
- [Hong Kong Will Survive | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/hong-kong-will-survive/): Peter G. de Krassel argues Hong Kong will rebound from protest damage and a 40% tourism drop as it did after SARS, the 1967 riots and 1997 handover.
- [America’s Widening Divide | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/americas-widening-divide/): The 2019 impeachment fight and a primary shaped by billionaire Michael Bloomberg reveal America's deepening 1% versus 99% divide, de Krassel writes.
- [Populism Shift – Right to Left? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/populism-shift-right-to-left/): De Krassel tracks populism moving leftward: after Trump and Brexit came Democratic 2018 gains, with Corbyn and Lopez Obrador targeting the one percent.
- [Bloomberg Could Be The Democratic Nominee | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/bloomberg-could-be-the-democratic-nominee/): How Michael Bloomberg might win the 2020 nomination by skipping early primaries for Super Tuesday and funneling donor cash against Biden and Buttigieg.
- [Globalization & Federal Reserve Need a 21st-century Disruptive Fix | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/economics/globalization-federal-reserve-need-a-21st-century-disruptive-fix/): De Krassel proposes 'interlocalism' and redrawn Federal Reserve districts, faulting the 1913 twelve-district map for missing the 2008 crash.
- [Afghanistan Needs New Creative Military Strategy | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/afghanistan-needs-new-creative-military-strategy/): Rather than an India, Pakistan and NATO surge, de Krassel urges Trump to enlist China, Russia, Iran and the Stans to end the war in Afghanistan.
- [CCP Rule, Beginning of The End, or Future Model? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/ccp-rule-beginning-of-the-end-or-future-model/): Weighing Xi Jinping's scrapped term limits and personality cult against Hong Kong protests, trade tensions and Uighur camps testing Communist rule.
- [Hong Kongers Standing Up for Their Rights | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/hongkong/hong-kongers-standing-up-for-their-rights/): Two million marched in 2019 against the extradition bill; de Krassel sees Hong Kong's millennials using social media to demand democratic rights.
- [American-Chinese KISSS | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/american-chinese-kisss/): De Krassel's Keep It Simple Sino Solutions: end Taiwan arms sales, skip the TPP and trade wars, and join China's Belt and Road with Ross and Tillerson.
- [North Korea Can And Must Follow In The Footsteps of Myanmar | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/north-korea-can-and-must-follow-in-the-footsteps-of-myanmar/): De Krassel urges Kim Jong Un to copy Myanmar's reforms: freeing dissidents as Aung San Suu Kyi's release showed, opening markets and pursuing reunion.
- [Climate Change | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/climate-change/): Citing dying ancient trees, record Arctic ice loss and skeptic Richard Muller's reversal, de Krassel frames climate change as humanity's gravest threat.
- [Time to Clean Up and Sweep Out Corruption in Government | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/time-to-clean-up-and-sweep-out-corruption-in-government/): Applying Cressey's Corruption Triangle of motivation, opportunity and rationalization, de Krassel urges citizens to fight a $1 trillion bribery problem.
- [Russian Terror | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/russian-terror/): Ahead of the 2014 Sochi Olympics, de Krassel argues Putin's kleptocracy, the jailing of Khodorkovsky and gutted courts endanger Russians more than terror.
- [Improving English fluency in HK is crucial for success | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/columns/improving-english-fluency-in-hk-is-crucial-for-success/): Hong Kong ranks 31st on the EF English index; de Krassel blames the 1998 mother-tongue policy and urges English from kindergarten under the Basic Law.
- [Unity Moonshot | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/unity-moonshot/): Recalling Apollo 11's unifying power amid 1960s turmoil, de Krassel calls political unity today's moonshot, invoking NASA's 'failure is not an option'.
- [Sino-US Redux | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/economics/sino-us-redux/): Xi Jinping's 2013 U.S. visit, echoing Nixon in 1972, offers win-win cooperation and $500 billion in trade if both powers drop zero-sum thinking.
- [Who Is The Illegal Alien Pilgrim? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/foreign-policy/who-is-the-illegal-alien-pilgrim/): Peter G. de Krassel argues the label illegal alien is historically relative, defending immigrants amid the 2018 DACA fight and border wall debate.
- [Apathetic American Youth? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/apathetic-american-youth/): The Parkland shooting stirs once apathetic American youth to demand gun control, echoing de Krassel's Custom Maid warnings on civic disengagement.
- [Neo-Marxist-Communism! Really? What’s That? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/neo-marxist-communism-really-whats-that/): China and Britain tout Neo-Marxist Communism, yet Xi's China hosts more billionaires than America; de Krassel favors compassionate capitalism instead.
- [Time to Investigate Self-Serving Dirty Comey | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/time-to-investigate-self-serving-dirty-comey/): Peter G. de Krassel calls for a probe of James Comey over the Clinton email case, Peter Strzok's edits, and the FBI's dossier-based FISA warrant.
- [An Ugly Preview of 2020 Presidential Election | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/an-ugly-preview-of-2020-presidential-election/): Trump and Biden trade insults at dueling Iowa events in June 2019, previewing an ugly 2020 race; de Krassel predicts Biden may lose the nomination.
- [Enough! America Desperately Needs 21st-Century Policies — Not Politics | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/enough-america-desperately-needs-21st-century-policies-not-politics/): De Krassel backs Pelosi against impeaching Trump, faults his $6.7B border emergency, and urges Congress to choose 21st-century policy over partisan war.
- [Changing of The Global Guard? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/changing-of-the-global-guard/): Invoking the Thucydides Trap, de Krassel urges the U.S. and China to co-lead rather than clash over the trade deficit and North Korea.
- [U.S.A. vs China, Rounds II & III—IDFC & Poison Pill v. Belt & Road | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/u-s-a-vs-china-rounds-ii-iii-idfc-poison-pill-v-belt-road/): America counters China with USMCA's poison-pill clause and the new IDFC's $60B fund challenging the $1.12 trillion Belt and Road, echoing 1980s Japan.
- [State Rights | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/state-rights/): Federal power erodes state rights and family farms through agribusiness; Master Lock's Milwaukee plant shows manufacturing returning to America.
- [TIME TO CLEAN DIRTY FBI | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/time-to-clean-dirty-fbi/): The FBI needs house cleaning, argues de Krassel, citing Peter Strzok's email edits, the Steele dossier FISA warrant, and past spying on Dr. King.
- [Bring Back Glass-Steagall Act | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/bring-back-glass-steagall-act/): Reinstating the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act could break up banks; de Krassel cites Sanford Weill's 2012 reversal and five giants controlling half the economy.
- [Respect the Winning Underdog | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/respect-the-winning-underdog/): Like the underdog Eagles of Super Bowl LII, Trump earned his win; de Krassel urges respect for the office and unity as Team America despite differences.
- [North Korean Family Ties and Korean Reunion | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/north-korean-family-ties-korean-reunion/): De Krassel foresees North Korea's collapse, recounts the Kim dynasty and Jang Song Thaek's execution, and proposes Hong Kong-style five-party talks.
- [A Reunited Korea | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/a-reunited-korea/): Peter G. de Krassel urges China to drop Kim Jong-un's North Korea and back reunification under Seoul, arguing a united Korea serves Beijing's interests.
- [Super Bowl Politics is The State of The Union | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/super-bowl-politics-is-the-state-of-the-union/): De Krassel likens 2020 politics to Super Bowl LIV: Iowa's caucus app failure, Buttigieg edging Sanders, and Pelosi ripping up Trump's Union address.
- [What about Kim’s Short-Range Missiles & Possible China Play? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/what-about-kims-short-range-missiles-possible-china-play/): North Korea's short-range Scud missiles with maneuvering re-entry vehicles pose an immediate threat, especially if sold to Iran, Syria or Hezbollah.
- [Health Care for All is Affordable | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/health-care-for-all-is-affordable/): Universal health care is affordable if inflated U.S. prices fall, argues de Krassel, contrasting $60 Hong Kong knee therapy with costly American surgery.
- [Why Are There Homeless and Jobless Veterans? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/why-are-there-homeless-and-jobless-veterans/): Peter G. de Krassel argues the U.S. spends billions on defense yet abandons homeless, jobless veterans, urging housing and jobs over parades.
- [Political Impeachment Game | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/political-impeachment-game/): Peter G. de Krassel blasts Trump's 2020 impeachment trial as a wasteful sham that sidelined senator candidates like Sanders and Warren during primaries.
- [KOBE & MIDDLE EAST PEACE PLAN | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/geopolitics/kobe-middle-east-peace-plan/): Kobe Bryant's death eclipsed Trump's Middle East peace plan: a two state solution with $50 billion in investment, rejected outright by Mahmoud Abbas.
- [Foreign Policy Priorities | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/foreign-policy-priorities/): Obama shifts from Clinton's China focus to Kerry's Europe and Middle East trips; should the China, Japan Diaoyu Islands dispute take priority?
- [Happy Holiday Season | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/happy-holiday-season-happy-healthy-prosperous-year-horse/): A December 2013 seasonal greeting from Peter G. de Krassel wishing readers a happy, healthy and prosperous Year of the Horse.
- [U.S. Bashing By China | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/u-s-bashing-china/): China races ahead in supercomputers, drones, satellites and high-speed rail while America defeats itself through gridlock; a case for cooperation.
- [Political Hardball Chinese Style | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/political-hardball-chinese-style/): Bo Xilai's fall, red song rallies in Chongqing and rivalry with Xi Jinping expose how China wields corruption charges against political dissent.
- [Hong Kong’s Vibrant Democracy | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/hong-kongs-vibrant-democracy/): From a 1981 riot to Occupy Central and Ai Weiwei's praise, Hong Kong's youth protests embody true democracy in action, argues Peter G. de Krassel.
- [Conflicted Chinese and Europeans | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/318/): From China's unenforced 1982 Constitution to Hong Kong's rule of law and Italy's Five Star Movement, citizens worldwide demand accountable government.
- [America’s Unfocused Flashpoint | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/americas-unfocused-flashpoint/): Peter G. de Krassel urges Washington to prioritize the China, Japan Diaoyu Islands standoff over the Middle East, citing Xi Jinping and Abe's militarism.
- [Sequestration | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/sequestration/): The March 2013 sequester's $85 billion in across-the-board cuts is a blunt tool that may cost 700,000 jobs while barely denting the deficit.
- [Necessary Chinese Political Reforms | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/necessary-chinese-political-reforms/): Ai Weiwei's arrest, 130 detained activists and Jerome Cohen's torture findings frame the case that China needs democratic reforms to survive.
- [America’s New Civil War — Obamacare | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/americas-new-civil-war-obamacare/): Rising U.S. health costs, Ben Nelson's decisive 60th vote and partisan gridlock over the Affordable Care Act show why the parties must cooperate.
- [Writing Volume III | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/writing-volume-iii/): Inspired by the Arab Spring and Wisconsin Capitol protests, Peter G. de Krassel pauses blogging to finish Custom Maid Revolution, volume III.
- [Material Madness & Misery | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/economics/material-madness-misery/): Citing Robert Reich, Sheldon Garon and Reverend Billy's Church of Life After Shopping, this essay argues American consumerism undermines happiness.
- [Breaking Bread & Rapping | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/breaking-bread-rapping/): Obama's private White House dinner with Hu Jintao shows how sharing meals builds U.S.-China trust, a study in personal diplomacy by de Krassel.
- [America the Beautiful | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/america-beautiful/): Rockefeller Center's tree, Obama-induced gridlock and Thanksgiving's Wampanoag history frame a meditation on American resilience and gratitude.
- [The D.C. Summit | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/the-d-c-summit/): Peter G. de Krassel hails Hu Jintao's January 2011 Washington state visit with Obama as a turning point in U.S.-China relations.
- [Mutual Trust, Respect and Benefit | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/mutual-trust-respect-and-benefit/): Genuine U.S.-China reciprocity, not rhetoric: de Krassel disputes cyberattack blame and rare earth disputes, urging Obama and Hu to build trust.
- [Balanced Global Leadership | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/balanced-global-leadership/): The U.S. and China should lead the world jointly, argues de Krassel, citing China's growth potential and Hu Jintao's White House state visit.
- [MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY, HEALTHY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/merry-christmas-and-a-happy-healthy-and-prosperous-new-year/): A brief December 2010 holiday greeting from author Peter G. de Krassel to readers of his Custom Maid Books political commentary blog.
- [“The Moment of Truth”─ A Political Non-Starter | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/the-moment-of-truth─-a-political-non-starter/): Why the 2010 Bowles-Simpson deficit plan, targeting $4 trillion in cuts and 200,000 federal jobs, was doomed by Congress and corporate lobbying.
- [Mutual Trust and Benefit | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/mutual-trust-and-benefit/): de Krassel examines U.S.-China trust deficits: the 2010 China Telecom traffic rerouting, WikiLeaks cables, Taiwan arms sales, and Obama's Asia tour.
- [Sino Supercomputer, Drones, GPS & Mars Rover | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/sino-supercomputer-drones-gps-mars-rover/): China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer, 25 drone models, GPS satellites, and Chang'e-2 lunar probe signal its rise; de Krassel urges cooperation.
- [Corporate Republic ─ Income Inequality | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/corporate-republic-─-income-inequality/): America's richest 1% hold more wealth than the bottom 90%; de Krassel cites economist Emmanuel Saez and attacks tax breaks for the wealthy.
- [Clash of The Currencies | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/clash-of-the-currencies/): The Fed's $600 billion QE2 and weak-dollar policy, not China's yuan, drives global currency chaos, argues de Krassel after the 2010 G20 in Seoul.
- [Dying American Dream | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/dying-american-dream/): Family incomes fell as the economy doubled since 1980; de Krassel argues the American Dream is fading and urges a return to founding principles.
- [Tea Party Revolt | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/tea-party-revolt/): Inside the 2010 Tea Party revolt against career politicians and Wall Street: de Krassel covers the Reid vs. Angle race and Rick Santelli's 2009 rant.
- [Destructive Deficit Spending | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/destructive-deficit-spending/): Post-2008 deficit spending pours gasoline on the fire, warns de Krassel, predicting doubled debt, dollar dumping by China, and eventual pain.
- [Karate Chop Japan | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/karate-chop-japan-2/): China overtook Japan as the world's second-largest economy in 2010; de Krassel says the U.S. should partner with Beijing, citing the Senkaku clash.
- [China Bashing Again | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/china-bashing-again/): de Krassel defends China against 2010 election-season tariff threats, arguing a yuan fix won't cure America's woes and warning of trade retaliation.
- [Back Writing My Blog | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/back-writing-my-blog/): Peter G. de Krassel returns to weekly blogging after finishing his book Feasting Dragon, Starving Eagle, now on Apple's iBookstore and Amazon.
- [Working on new book | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/working-on-new-book/): Peter G. de Krassel pauses blogging through summer 2010 to work with his editor on his new book, Feasting Dragon, Starving Eagle.
- [Water Wars | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/water-wars/): Shrinking Dead Sea, a trickling Jordan River, dried Syrian villages, Gaza shortages, and mercury-tainted U.S. fish: de Krassel on the water crisis.
- [Pigs Get Fat and Hogs Get Slaughtered | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/pigs-get-fat-and-hogs-get-slaughtered/): After the 2008 crash, Goldman's Lloyd Blankfein apologized as bonuses soared; a look at Wall Street greed beside China's mandated executive pay cuts.
- [What Climate Change? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/what-climate-change/): Making the case that warming is real, this post cites shrinking Scottish sheep and urges U.S.-China action after the Senate spurned the Kyoto Protocol.
- [There Is Only One America | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/there-is-only-one-america/): Even as U.S. market share slips and China rises, de Krassel argues America keeps its lead through founding ideals, Obama's Nobel, and NFL bids in China.
- [The American Divide | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/the-american-divide/): Obama's healthcare vote exposed a dangerous partisan rift: Boehner's 'Armageddon,' Palin's crosshairs imagery, and death threats aimed at Congress.
- [Blogs back soon… | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/blogs-back-soon/): A brief notice: blogging pauses while Peter G. de Krassel finishes editing his book 'Feasting Dragon, Starving Eagle,' due June 1, 2010, back in April.
- [Chinese New Year and Presidents Holiday | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/chinese-new-year-and-presidents-holida/): A short hiatus notice from Peter G. de Krassel: posts pause for Chinese New Year and Presidents Day, with the next blog due the week of March 22.
- [Somalia Anti-Piracy & Restoration Task Force | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/somalia-anti-piracy-restoration-task-force/): Proposing a joint U.S.-China force on Somali piracy, which seized 40 ships and $150 million in ransom in 2008, echoing the 1805 expedition to Tripoli.
- [The Haiti Political Disaster | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/the-haiti-political-disaster/): Haiti, independent since 1804 yet the hemisphere's poorest with 80% in poverty, is cast as a failed state where corruption swallows billions in aid.
- [Water | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/water/): Warning of a global water crisis: Americans use 160 gallons daily while millions get three, as aquifers deplete and cities like Los Angeles outgrow supply.
- [‘Hopenhagen’ Suicide Pact | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/hopenhagen-suicide-pact/): Copenhagen's 2009 summit yielded only a non-binding accord; de Krassel calls it a 'suicide pact' and urges a U.S.-China led body to replace the UN.
- [America’s China Option In Afghanistan | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/americas-china-option-in-afghanistan/): Afghanistan calls for U.S.-China partnership: Beijing's $3 billion copper bet, a shared fear of extremism, and the 1980s campaign that ousted the Soviets.
- [Party Split | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/party-split/): China's Communist Party splits into Jiang Zemin's Shanghai elitists and Hu Jintao's populists, straining to avoid rupture in the shadow of Tiananmen 1989.
- [Hot Danish | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/hot-danish/): Faulting America's 17% emissions target beside the EU and China, this Copenhagen piece touts halting deforestation and laser fusion energy as climate fixes.
- [The Banquet of Great Expectations | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/the-banquet-of-great-expectations/): Obama's November 2009 China visit signaled partnership over confrontation, de Krassel argues, though mutual distrust and Taiwan arms sales cloud the ties.
- [Sino-U.S. Relations, Chop Suey Style | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/sino-u-s-relations-chop-suey-style/): Blending a pragmatic China policy chop suey style, de Krassel urges biannual summits and warns against a trade war given the need for Chinese financing.
- [Climbing the Climate Hurdles | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/climbing-the-climate-hurdles/): U.S. and China, source of 40% of emissions, should lead climate action; the post backs Schwarzenegger's fuel standard and rebuts sunspot cooling skeptics.
- [Global Tidal Waves | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/global-tidal-waves/): Climate change could push billions into water and food scarcity and coastal flooding; a suppressed 2005 Pentagon study warned of famine and nuclear war.
- [Politically Hungry America | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/politically-hungry-america/): Culinary metaphors, from Obama's dining habits to Panda Express and General Tso's chicken, frame a case for fusing the best of China and America.
- [Cooking With Biogas and Planting Trees | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/cooking-with-biogas-and-planting-trees/): China's biogas program powers 31 million households while the U.S. House votes to plant 18 million acres of trees, both cutting carbon via incentives.
- [Cooking With Explosive Gas | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/cooking-with-explosive-gas/): Why fund risky carbon capture (recall Lake Nyos, 1986) and nuclear plants, the piece asks, when the U.S. and China could invest in solar and wind?
- [Come Together on Climate Change | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/come-together-on-climate-change/): Nancy Pelosi in Beijing, John Kerry, and the Waxman-Markey bill: why the U.S. and China must jointly forge a post-Kyoto climate pact by Copenhagen.
- [Dying Fossil Fuel | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/dying-fossil-fuel/): Oil reserves near depletion as Big Oil retreats from renewables; GE's Jeff Immelt shifts from calling wind a 'hula hoop' to $6.5 billion in turbines.
- [Pacific Plastic Patch | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/pacific-plastic-patch/): Charles Moore's 1997 discovery of a Pacific plastic gyre twice the size of France, 46,000 pieces per square kilometer, killing a million seabirds a year.
- [China Bubble | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/china-bubble/): China's 2008 stimulus and 7.37 trillion yuan in loans inflate stock and property bubbles; John Greenwood warns of a collapse within two years.
- [Water Wars | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/water-wars-2/): Melting Tibetan glaciers, a parched Bhopal, and a shrinking Jordan River: how water scarcity across Asia and the Middle East could ignite conflict.
- [Sino-U.S. Century | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/sino-u-s-century/): Peter G. de Krassel urges a bilateral U.S.-China treaty, elevating the 2009 Strategic and Economic Dialogue, with climate change as its cornerstone.
- [Smoked Meat | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/smoked-meat/): China's state tobacco monopoly stalls reform as smoking kills a million a year; economist Zou Fangbin urges dismantling it despite WHO commitments.
- [China’s Ethnic Violence | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/chinas-ethnic-violence/): Uygur unrest and deadly Urumqi riots expose Xinjiang's tensions over Han migration and oil, prompting Hu Jintao to leave the G8 summit early.
- [The G8 Wake | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/the-g8-wake/): The 2009 G8 summit in quake-hit L'Aquila under Berlusconi marks, the author argues, the death of an obsolete club reduced to an annual photo shoot.
- [Yellow Bric Road | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/yellow-bric-road/): The first BRIC summit in Yekaterinburg (June 2009) challenges dollar dominance, floating currency swaps and a single global currency to rival the G7.
- [Overcooked Insects | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/overcooked-insects/): Warming spreads pine bark beetles, malaria mosquitoes, and Lyme ticks; The Lancet calls climate change the century's biggest global health threat.
- [More Sanctions? Fugetaboutit | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/more-sanctions-fugetaboutit/): Sanctions on North Korea fail, argues the piece, which proposes five-party talks, cross-border economic zones, and a treaty ending the 1953 armistice.
- [GM’s Future Is In China | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/gms-future-is-in-china/): China becomes the world's largest car market as GM's joint ventures surge 75 percent, letting Beijing, not Detroit, set global emissions standards.
- [Hummer and Sickle | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/hummer-and-sickle/): China's roughly $500 million purchase of GM's Hummer brand signals, for Peter G. de Krassel, how 'Confucian capitalism' is devouring U.S. industry.
- [Chinese Navy a Threat? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/chinese-navy-a-threat/): China's PLA Navy modernizes with the Type 094 submarine and its first carrier, yet U.S. defense spending near ten times China's keeps America dominant.
- [Human Capital | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/human-capital/): Post-9/11 visa screening drives foreign students away while immigrant founders like Sergey Brin and Jerry Yang show the talent America risks losing.
- [China at Crossroad | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/china-at-crossroad/): Peter G. de Krassel argues China must shift from exports to domestic consumption as unaccountable bureaucrats and rising unrest threaten its stability.
- [Pax Americana is Passé | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/pax-americana-is-passe/): The post-WWII American order has ended amid $10 trillion debt and the 2008 crash; de Krassel urges the U.S. to treat a rising China as partner, not rival.
- [The Great U.S. Recession | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/the-great-u-s-recession/): Nearly 2 million jobs vanished by 2009 in the worst U.S. recession since WWII; China's continued Treasury purchases make the case for bilateral cooperation.
- [Confucian Capitalism | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/confucian-capitalism/): U.S. bank and auto bailouts are Confucian capitalism too, de Krassel argues, contrasting Hong Kong's profitable 1998 market rescue with American hypocrisy.
- [G-20 Just Another Expensive Talkfest | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/g-20-just-another-expensive-talkfest/): The $30 million London G-20 summit is dismissed as a talkfest; de Krassel calls for a new global central bank to replace the Bretton Woods institutions.
- [Education Stimulus Bar | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/education-stimulus-bar/): Why won't America match China's education stimulus? de Krassel cites Beijing's rural teaching corps and Wen Jiabao's push as a model the U.S. should copy.
- [War or Economic and Financial Stability? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/war-or-economic-and-financial-stability/): U.S. military provocations near Hainan Island, from B-2 bombers to the USNS Impeccable standoff, undercut diplomacy with China during the financial crisis.
- [English Is Not Enough | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/english-is-not-enough/): American graduates should master Spanish or Chinese; de Krassel cites the Pentagon's language initiative and West Point's rising Mandarin enrollment.
- [China-Australia Relationship One America Should Emulate | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/china-australia-relationship-one-america-should-emulate/): Kevin Rudd's Mandarin-speaking engagement and a $25 billion Guangdong gas deal make Australia's China ties a model de Krassel says America should emulate.
- [The Politics of Art | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/the-politics-of-art/): The World Monuments Fund's $3 million restoration of the Forbidden City's Juanqinzhai studio models the Sino-American cooperation de Krassel urges.
- [Sino-US Relations Starting Gate | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/sino-us-relations-starting-gate/): Peter G. de Krassel urges U.S.-China cooperation on clean energy and a binding successor to the Kyoto Protocol to avert a global energy crisis.
- [China’s Military Transformation | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/chinas-military-transformation/): Peter G. de Krassel examines China's military modernization, from the J-10 fighter to its 2010-2020 mechanization plan and rising tension over Taiwan.
- [Resentful Arrogant Perceptions | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/resentful-arrogant-perceptions/): China's carriers, anti-ship missiles, and 2009 satellite killer answer grievances like the 1999 Belgrade embassy bombing and U.S. military expansion.
- [Pork and Grains | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/pork-and-grains/): China's food security gap, doubling pork and rice prices plus reliance on imported soybeans, could shake global markets like America's thirst for oil.
- [Extended Support Network | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/extended-support-network/): China backs Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan through the crisis via yuan trade liberalization, cross-border bridges, and 130 billion yuan in Taiwanese loans.
- [China’s Double-Fisted Handful | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/chinas-double-fisted-handful/): China's 2009 crisis laid bare: 24 million jobless, retired soldiers protesting pensions, and farmland feeding 22% of humanity threatening Party rule.
- [G-2 | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/g-2/): De Krassel urges upgrading the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue into G-2 presidential summits and a treaty as Obama and Hu Jintao face vast deficits.
- [Necessary Dialogue | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/necessary-dialogue/): At the December 2008 Strategic Economic Dialogue, China drops its deference: the yuan up 20%, Beijing blaming U.S. debt and overconsumption for the crisis.
- [The Main Event | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/the-main-event/): Why Obama's April 2009 G-20 summit matters: after bailouts of AIG, Bear Stearns and Citibank, de Krassel calls for a new global financial architecture.
- [China at Center Stage | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/china-at-center-stage/): Holding the world's largest reserves, China demands more IMF voting rights; de Krassel argues Bretton Woods should yield to developing nations.
- [China’s New Deal | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/chinas-new-deal/): China's $586 billion stimulus as a New Deal: de Krassel says America should copy Beijing's FDR-style model and save more while Chinese consumers spend.
- [Revolutionary Change | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/revolutionary-change/): Obama's 2008 victory as revolution: de Krassel links Grant Park's crowds to the 1968 Chicago convention, arguing America is finally ready for change.
- [Terrorists Are New-Age Pirates | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/terrorists-are-new-age-pirates/): Terrorism as modern piracy: de Krassel invokes the Barbary Wars and shipping lanes off Somalia and Malacca to explain today's counterterror campaigns.
- [Presidential Death and Political Revolution | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/presidential-death-and-political-revolution/): A 21st-century assassination would spark revolution: de Krassel on 'Kill Him' shouts at Palin rallies and the ghosts of MLK and the Kennedys.
- [China Bashing | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/china-bashing/): China as scapegoat: de Krassel rebuts McCain and Obama on currency and outsourcing, recalling how 1980s auto quotas on Japan backfired on Detroit.
- [Religious Constitutional Suicide Pact | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/religious-constitutional-suicide-pact/): Should tax-exempt pastors endorse candidates? De Krassel opposes the 33-pastor Pulpit Initiative and defends the 1954 Johnson ban on church politicking.
- [Freefalling Meltdown | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/freefalling-meltdown/): The 2008 meltdown as pyramid scheme: de Krassel on $43 trillion in credit default swaps, the $700 billion bailout, and Bush, Paulson and Bernanke in panic.
- [Change: Obama/Palin Style | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/change-obamapalin-style/): Either ticket means change: de Krassel says the failed Washington 'Good Ol' Boy Network' makes McCain or Obama a refreshing break for a weak 2008 economy.
- [Putinomics | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/putinomics/): Putin's Georgia invasion as defense, not aggression: de Krassel blames NATO's eastward push, energy leverage, and the U.S. arms industry for the 2008 war.
- [Finish Off Freddie and Fannies Shareholders ─ Save the Creditors | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/finish-off-freddie-and-fannies-shareholders-─-save-the-creditors/): Wipe out Freddie and Fannie shareholders but protect creditors: de Krassel notes Chinese banks' $376 billion exposure and foreign faith in a U.S. guarantee.
- [Un-American Freddie Fannie Fury | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/un-american-freddie-fannie-fury/): Freddie and Fannie privatized profits and socialized losses; backed by Greenspan, de Krassel urges nationalizing guarantors of $12 trillion in mortgages.
- [Korean Denuclearization | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/korean-denuclearization/): North Korea will demand removal from the U.S. terror list before scrapping Yongbyon; de Krassel foresees more DMZ misfires stalling six-party talks.
- [Iran Denuclearization | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/iran-denuclearization/): Peter G. de Krassel argues the U.S. should apply Reagan's Cold War Soviet diplomacy to Iran's nuclear standoff rather than confrontation.
- [His Way? No Way! The Highway Mugabe | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/his-way-no-way-the-highway-mugabe/): Calls for Robert Mugabe's exit from Zimbabwe with immunity after a stolen 2008 election, citing the Gukurahundi massacre and Africa's tribalism.
- [A Fearful Truce | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/a-fearful-truce/): Distinguishes the Arabic tahadiya from hudna, urging Israel and Hamas to turn the 2008 Gaza ceasefire into permanent regional peace.
- [EU Wake | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/eu-wake/): Contends the EU was flawed from birth, its unreadable 450-page constitution rejected by Irish, French and Dutch voters as Europe thrives on rivalry.
- [Continued U.N. Abuses & Waste | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/continued-u-n-abuses-waste/): Documents peacekeeper sex abuse in Sudan, Ivory Coast and Haiti plus UNDP failures in North Korea, arguing such waste justifies abolishing the U.N.
- [Cuban-American Vote Conundrum | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/cuban-american-vote-conundrum/): Argues the failed Cuba embargo should push Cuban American voters toward Obama in 2008, noting Raul Castro's China ties and the Elian Gonzalez fallout.
- [Survival or Armageddon? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/survival-or-armageddon/): Makes the case for an Israeli-Palestinian two-state solution, weighing demographic shifts and Israel's absorption of 5.4 million Jewish refugees.
- [Destructive Religious Divide and Political Pastors | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/destructive-religious-divide-and-political-pastors/): Urges separating religion from U.S. politics, citing pastors Jeremiah Wright and John Hagee in the 2008 primary and Bush's record disapproval.
- [Gassed Out | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/gassed-out/): Offers practical fuel-saving tips amid 2008's high gas prices: buy in the cool morning, pump slowly and refill at half a tank.
- [Religion, Sex and Politics | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/religion-sex-and-politics/): Examines how the 2008 Clinton-Obama race fixated on Reverend Wright while ignoring U.S. ties to Saudi Arabia, source of most 9/11 hijackers.
- [Virtual Hedge Funds | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/virtual-hedge-funds/): Calls for regulating some 8,000 hedge funds holding over $2 trillion, invoking Buffett's 'weapons of mass destruction' warning and the subprime crisis.
- [Partition | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/partition/): Argues a unified Iraq is unsustainable and should split into Kurdish, Shiite and Sunni states, citing the 2006 Samarra mosque bombing and Soviet breakups.
- [Corporate Welfare Bear | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/corporate-welfare-bear/): Blasts the Fed's $30 billion Bear Stearns rescue that let JP Morgan buy the firm for $236 million while foreclosed homeowners got no relief.
- [Mullahs Out of Fire Power at The Polls | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/mullahs-out-of-fire-power-at-the-polls/): Recommends backing Iran's opposition and delisting the MEK to unseat Ahmadinejad through the ballot and financial pressure, not military strikes.
- [False Hopes | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/false-hopes/): Criticizes 2008's Project Lifeline and the Hope Now Alliance banks as false hope, faulting Greenspan and urging America to rebalance through exports.
- [Saudi Love–bin Laden Style | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/saudi-love-bin-laden-style/): Attacks Saudi Wahhabism as un-Islamic, from banning Valentine's roses to sentencing Fawza Falih for witchcraft, and calls for a Muslim Reformation.
- [Dismayed Land | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/dismayed-land/): Faults bankers and regulators for three crises in 20 years, from the S&L collapse to Societe Generale's $7.1 billion fraud and the 2008 meltdown.
- [America Must Do As It Says | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/america-must-do-as-it-says/): Argues the U.S. ignored its own 1997 Asian crisis advice by bailing out banks in 2008, and calls for Sino-U.S. interlocalism to manage future crises.
- [Responsible Bank Holdings | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/responsible-bank-holdings/): Foreign central banks holding U.S. Treasuries face 2008 crisis choices; cites Citigroup, Warren Buffett's toad quote, and Marc Faber's Fed warning.
- [Reckless Behavior | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/reckless-behavior/): Blames the 2008 subprime crisis on reckless U.S. bank lending and Fed rate cuts that hurt foreign Treasury holders like China, then faults the bailouts.
- [Sino-U.S. Interlocalism | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/sino-u-s-interlocalism/): Urges a U.S.-China partnership of equals, citing the 2007 Kitty Hawk carrier snub, China's rapid growth, and a proposed dollar-yuan currency basket.
- [Saudi Gratitude | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/saudi-gratitude/): Criticizes Saudi Arabia for flying Nawaz Sharif back to Pakistan in 2008 against U.S. wishes and wielding oil power against its American protector.
- [Japanese Torpedo Stock Market and Dollar | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/japanese-torpedo-stock-market-and-dollar/): Contends Japan's yen carry trade and Arab oil producers, not China, drive the dollar's fall after the Bank of Japan raised interest rates.
- [Blame The Arab Oil Producers Not China | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/blame-the-arab-oil-producers-not-china/): Gulf oil producers, not China, hold the dollar's fate, this piece argues, noting Kuwait's 2007 peg switch and China's $1.43 trillion in reserves.
- [Yankees and Their Dollar Not Welcome | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/yankees-and-their-dollar-not-welcome/): Recounts a 2007 Dubai trip where merchants preferred yuan over the falling dollar, with Steve Forbes and Ahmadinejad weighing in on U.S. currency.
- [Interlocalism | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/interlocalism/): Proposes interlocalism, networked city clusters like China's Yangtze and Pearl River Deltas, as a middle path between localism and globalization.
- [Global Urban Slumization | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/global-urban-slumization/): Warns of runaway urban slum growth in Africa and Asia, citing U.N. projections of 5 billion city dwellers by 2030, and offers interlocalism as a fix.
- [Interlocalism Successor to Capitalism and Globalization | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/interlocalism-successor-to-capitalism-and-globalization/): Calls capitalism and globalization obsolete, tracing railroad-era tycoons and warning that containing China risks a 1914-style war; backs interlocalism.
- [Iraqi Railroads | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/iraqi-railroads/): Profiles Wabtec's $17 million satellite train control system for Iraq's looted 1,900 km rail network as a model for patient U.S. reconstruction.
- [Protectionism | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/protectionism/): Peter G. de Krassel opposes protectionist bills targeting China, noting the 2006 trade deficit of $233 billion and exports driven by foreign firms.
- [Myanmar Is Another U.N. Failure | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/myanmar-is-another-u-n-failure/): Uses Myanmar's junta, Aung San Suu Kyi's stolen 1990 election, and China and Russia's vetoes to argue the U.N. fails to stop human rights abuses.
- [China Rising | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/china-rising/): Peter G. de Krassel argues for U.S.-China cooperation over confrontation, citing shared energy needs, Sudan oil, North Korea, and Taiwan tensions.
- [The Rise of Yuan | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/the-rise-of-yuan/): Predicts the yuan will overtake the dollar, citing the greenback's 2007 lows, China's trillion-dollar reserves, and yuan appreciation past 7.9.
- [Football Diplomacy | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/football-diplomacy/): Proposes Middle East football teams of mixed faiths and nations, echoing Mao and Nixon's ping pong diplomacy, to build peace and open borders.
- [Israeli Football | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/israeli-football/): Arab Israeli stars Abbas Suan and Walid Badir anchor a national soccer team that de Krassel casts as a symbol of unity beyond religious divides.
- [Lions of Mesopotamia | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/lions-of-mesopotamia/): Iraq's 2007 Asian Cup win over Saudi Arabia, with Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish players united, shows how sport can transcend sectarian violence.
- [Replace Madrassas With Comedy Schools | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/replace-madrassas-with-comedy-schools/): Comedy as a weapon against extremism: comedian Goffaq Yussef, Saudi satire Tash Ma Tash and the comic The 99 mock prejudice and religious dogma.
- [The Education War ─ Abolish Fanatical Madrassas | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/the-education-war-─-abolish-fanatical-madrassas/): Peter G. de Krassel calls for a global education war to abolish fanatical madrassas, citing Bali and Jakarta bombings and Pakistan's 10,000 schools.
- [Extremists | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/extremists/): Damascus and Tehran fuel Sunni and Shiite extremists; de Krassel argues partition, not a unified federal Iraq, is the only workable path forward.
- [Islamistan | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/islamistan/): Hamas and Fatah cannot share power: de Krassel proposes an Islamist Gaza and a West Bank federated with Jordan or Israel after the failed Mecca accord.
- [Partition the Only Solution for Iraq and Palestine | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/partition-the-only-solution-for-iraq-and-palestine/): The murder of Shiite reporter Khamael Muhsen in Baghdad frames the case that sectarian hatred makes unified Iraqi governance impossible.
- [The Koran | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/the-koran/): Should the Qur'an face historical criticism? Scholars Wansbrough and Crone question its origins, Dome of the Rock inscriptions and Mecca's isolation.
- [The Bible | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/the-bible/): Reading scripture as human, not divine: doubts about Abraham, Moses and Jericho set against a striking list of Israel's technology and science feats.
- [Talk Turkey | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/talk-turkey-2/): Why Turkey belongs in the EU: secular since 1923, guarded by its generals, a NATO crossroads bridging Asia and Europe yet kept at Europe's door.
- [Fickle Europe | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/fickle-europe/): Europe as an unreliable partner: CIA secret prisons, stalling growth, the 2005 constitution defeat and closed labor markets expose its contradictions.
- [Bonds That Bind | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/bonds-that-bind/): From Churchill and Roosevelt onward, de Krassel urges a tight Anglo-American alliance with Australia and New Zealand over a frayed tie to old Europe.
- [American-British Alliance | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/american-british-alliance/): Common law, free markets and shared beliefs bind the U.S. and Britain, from Churchill's Suez warning to Blair's 2003 Congress address and Ulster peace.
- [French Crescent | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/french-crescent/): Muslim migration and integration failures behind France's riots: de Krassel links 40% suburban joblessness and banned ethnic statistics to the unrest.
- [Yeltsinize Mugabe | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/yeltsinize-mugabe/): Let Robert Mugabe retire with immunity like Yeltsin: 1,600% inflation, the Gukurahundi killings and Zimbabwe's Born Free generation demand change.
- [China-Russia Economic Alliance | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/china-russia-economic-alliance/): Old rivals turned partners: resolved 2005 borders, booming Heilongjiang trade, a Siberia to China oil pipeline and worries over Far East migration.
- [Racism | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/racism/): Persistent 21st century racism, from Don Imus and the Duke lacrosse case to segregated communities in France, Britain and Australia, demands action.
- [Hired Guns | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/hired-guns/): Peter G. de Krassel makes the case for hiring private military contractors as peacekeepers, citing Executive Outcomes in Sierra Leone and Iraq.
- [Nuclear Standoff | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/nuclear-standoff/): Iran enriched uranium to just 4.8%, far below bomb grade; the case for direct U.S. and European talks over sanctions on Bank Saderat to win Mideast peace.
- [Whose and What Rights? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/whose-and-what-rights/): Faults the U.N. for failing to protect human rights, from the Khmer Rouge and Cambodia's Hun Sen to Darfur, as member state abuses persist.
- [Cuba | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/cuba/): Examines how Cuba adopts a China style economy under Raul Castro, arguing the U.S. embargo has failed as American goods and tourists flow in.
- [Russian Defiance | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/russian-defiance/): How Putin's Russia wields Gazprom energy exports over Europe, with the Litvinenko poisoning, gas cutoffs to Ukraine, and support for Iran.
- [Effective Mediator ─ Stalled Agreement | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/effective-mediator-─-stalled-agreement/): Assesses China's 2007 North Korea nuclear deal, dismissed by John Bolton as hollow, and urges new five party talks that exclude Pyongyang.
- [Who’s Raping Whose Scapegoat? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/whos-raping-whose-scapegoat/): Contrasts Marine Daniel Smith's Philippine rape conviction with U.N. peacekeepers shielded from prosecution over abuse in Congo and beyond.
- [The New Divide | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/the-new-divide/): Analyzes Washington gridlock after the 2006 midterms, as Henry Waxman's investigations into Bush, Cheney and Iraq deepen partisan conflict.
- [New Political Landscape | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/new-political-landscape/): Reads the 2006 Democratic midterm win as a political tsunami over wage stagnation, detailing the party's 'six for 6' agenda and Iraq oversight.
- [Joint Vision | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/joint-vision/): Urges sustained U.S.-China engagement over protectionism, warning against forcing yuan revaluation and recalling the 1985 Plaza Accord fallout.
- [Arrogant Indebted Nation | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/arrogant-indebted-nation/): Tallies the Iraq war's $2 trillion cost per Stiglitz and Bilmes against a $9 trillion debt, faulting Bush's off budget funding and lost oversight.
- [Strategic Economic Dialogue | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/strategic-economic-dialogue/): Covers the December 2006 Beijing talks between U.S. cabinet secretaries and China, defending gradual reform and an $8 billion Westinghouse deal.
- [China Blamed For Global Slowdown | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/china-blamed-for-global-slowdown/): Rejects the Bush administration's claim that China distorts the global economy, citing its WTO compliance, tariff cuts and surging U.S. exports.
- [New Moral Order | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/new-moral-order/): Argues a global moral order now holds tyrants accountable, from Marcos, Pinochet and Suharto to Saddam, urging the U.N. to formalize the standard.
- [Neo-Colonialism | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/neo-colonialism/): Frames post conflict reconstruction as sophisticated colonialism, with contractor land grabs in Iraq, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Cambodia.
- [Japan’s Denial | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/japans-denial/): Condemns Japan's refusal to atone for the Nanjing Massacre, comfort women and Yasukuni war criminals, opposing its U.N. Security Council bid.
- [World War | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/world-war/): Peter G. de Krassel likens the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war to 1914's road to WWI, warning Middle East chaos could ignite a nuclear global conflict.
- [North Korea’s October Surprise | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/north-koreas-october-surprise/): After North Korea's October 2006 nuclear test, why sanctions cannot pressure an already isolated Pyongyang and only inflict pain on ordinary citizens.
- [Wrong Axis Leg Taken Out | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/wrong-axis-leg-taken-out/): America invaded Iraq, the one Axis of Evil state without WMDs, pushing Iran and North Korea toward the bomb; de Krassel urges direct talks instead.
- [Forgeetaaaboutit – Treat North Korea Like Haiti | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/forgeetaaaboutit-treat-north-korea-like-haiti/): Peter G. de Krassel proposes a face-saving exit for Kim Jong-il and cross-border economic zones, treating North Korea as America once handled Haiti.
- [The Bridge | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/the-bridge/): Iran's reform-minded leaders and youth (70% under 30) open a path to dialogue: Khatami's U.S. visit and his condemnation of 9/11 argue for engagement.
- [Nuclear Standoff | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/nuclear-standoff-2/): Calls for direct U.S., Iran and Europe diplomacy over Iran's uranium enrichment, defending Tehran's peaceful nuclear rights under the NPT.
- [Communicative Defiance | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/communicative-defiance/): Iran as the Middle East's key power: the Shiite crescent, Maliki's Tehran visit, and Ahmadinejad's letter to Bush argue for engagement, not conflict.
- [Iran | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/iran/): Iran created Hezbollah, yet the group is now weakened: Hariri's assassination, the March 14 movement, and Nasrallah's regrets argue for engaging Tehran.
- [The U.N.’s Last Gasp | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/the-u-n-s-last-gasp/): The U.N.'s credibility rests on enforcing Resolution 1701 in Lebanon and disarming Hezbollah; toothless like the ignored 1559, it leaves dialogue the path.
- [Freedom of Speech | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/freedom-of-speech/): Democracies should prosecute and deport those who incite violence in Islam's name, as with Ali al-Timimi's life sentence, without curbing lawful citizens.
- [The Arab Dilemma | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/the-arab-dilemma/): Why U.N. peacekeeping in Lebanon fails: no enforcement, UNIFIL's 20 years without disarming Hezbollah, and Syrian backing that only Golan diplomacy may end.
- [Americas Kamikaze Embrace | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/americas-kamikaze-embrace/): Koizumi's Yasukuni Shrine visits signal reviving Japanese militarism and revisionist textbooks, and the U.S., argues de Krassel, wrongly enables it.
- [Human Rights | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/human-rights/): The U.N. Human Rights Commission seats abusers like Libya, Sudan and Saudi Arabia, condemns America and Israel, and voted off the U.S. that founded it.
- [Multilateral Preemptive Intervention | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/multilateral-preemptive-intervention/): The case for multilateral intervention against regimes in Congo, Sudan, Liberia and Zimbabwe, citing the Solomon Islands and WWII civil affairs models.
- [Bureaucratic Criminals | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/bureaucratic-criminals/): U.N. peacekeepers escape accountability for sexual abuse: Bosnia trafficking, 150 allegations in Congo, and how SOFAs shield them from local law.
- [Abolish The U.N. | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/abolish-the-u-n/): The U.N. should be abolished, not reformed: a headquarters built on a slaughterhouse, full of asbestos, and failures from Rwanda to Sudan expose the rot.
- [UN-Sanction Sanctions | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/un-sanction-sanctions/): Economic sanctions fail and harm civilians: tobacco firms broke Iraq and Serbia embargoes, Cuba's 40-year ban leaked, and Haiti's misery bred drug cartels.
- [Waste of Money | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/waste-of-money/): Wasteful U.S. spending on U.N. disputes: 22% of the budget, John Bolton's recess appointment after Senate rejection, and endless oil-for-food probes.
- [Military Change | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/military-change/): Warning against a U.S. military strike on Iran: Seymour Hersh's reporting, the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq, and blowback via the Strait of Hormuz and Hezbollah.
- [Regime Change-Policy Change | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/regime-change-policy-change/): How Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz backed Iran's nuclear program under Ford in the 1970s yet opposed it decades later, per Joseph Cirincione.
- [Iran Connection | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/iran-connection/): Argues Iran, not Iraq, aided al-Qaeda's 9/11 hijackers, citing the Commission report and Saif al-Adel, and asks why the U.S. hit the wrong country.
- [Honorable Iraq Diffusion | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/honorable-iraq-diffusion/): Peter G. de Krassel makes the case for partitioning Iraq into Kurdish, Sunni, and Shiite states, citing the 2005 election, constitution, and Yugoslavia.
- [Unsustainable Bushistan | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/unsustainable-bushistan/): The Iraq occupation's failure in numbers: 2,000 U.S. deaths, Brigadier Aylwin-Foster's racism charge, ignored 2003 CIA warnings, and the case to partition.
- [Iraq | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/iraq/): Iraq framed as an artificial state Britain drew in 1920: voters chose sect over nation, Ambassador Khalilzad concedes, and de Krassel urges three states.
- [Diffusion | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/diffusion/): The December 15, 2005 Iraqi vote read as a census: Shiite Alliance 128 seats, Kurds 53, Allawi 25, Chalabi none, and the fragmentation it foretold.
- [Sunnistan | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/sunnistan/): Forged Iranian ballots, Pentagon-planted propaganda, and the February 2006 Samarra mosque bombing that hit 168 Sunni mosques and pushed Iraq to civil war.
- [Kurdistan | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/kurdistan/): Why a unified Iraq fails: 10,000 peshmerga embedded in the army eye Kirkuk and Mosul, 25 million stateless Kurds, and betrayals by Nixon and Bush.
- [Fusion | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/fusion/): Cultural fusion born of resistance: New Zealand's Maori and Iraq's Shia, Saladin's reconquest of Jerusalem, and the case for truth and reconciliation.
- [Bushfires | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/bushfires/): American empire as 'bushfires': from Hawaii's annexation and Pearl Harbor to Gulf bases and Chomsky on 1945 Saudi oil, conflicts that breed terrorism.
- [Farming, the Road to Peace | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/farming-the-road-to-peace/): Farming as conflict prevention: Pakistani madrasas grew from 3,000 to 39,000, and McNamara ties poverty, not ideology, to terrorism and rural wars.
- [Bloody Hungry Century | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/bloody-hungry-century/): The century of child soldiers: 300,000 fighting across 41 countries, Mohammed al Durra, Hamas martyr schools, and 160 million killed in 20th-century war.
- [China the “Peer Competitor” | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/china-the-peer-competitor/): Accepting China as a peer competitor, not a Cold War foe, while Congress reclaims its war powers and Iraq turns America into a reckless global borrower.
- [Arabia | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/arabia/): Redrawing Arabia beyond Saudi Wahhabi rule: resented Hijazis and Shiites, the expelled Hashemites, and Congress naming the kingdom terrorism's epicenter.
- [Brazil | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/brazil/): Brazil's Portuguese exception: Dom Joao's 1807 flight from Napoleon with 10,000 courtiers, and Dom Pedro's founding of a New World Catholic monarchy.
- [Talk Turkey Not Crusades | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/talk-turkey-not-crusades/): The case for Turkey in the EU: a secular Muslim free-market democracy, Erdogan's outreach after Istanbul's synagogue bombings, 70 million people strong.
- [China Rising | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/china-rising-2/): Charts China's rise, from lifting 377 million out of poverty to 11.9% growth, projecting it as the world's top economy while the U.S. lags behind.
- [Sudan | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/sudan/): The UN's failure to halt the Darfur genocide: Janjaweed killings, Colin Powell's verdict, and how oil interests blocked Security Council action.
- [China’s New Silk Road | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/chinas-new-silk-road/): How China expands influence across Central Asia via the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, soft power, and a revived Silk Road countering the U.S.
- [China-Latin America | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/china-latin-america/): China moves into Latin America as U.S. ties fray: Brazil trade and infrastructure billions, Cuban nickel deals, and Hu Jintao's 2004 APEC visit.
- [America-Britain Alliance | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/america-britain-alliance/): The case for a stronger U.S.-Britain alliance over a fractured Europe, invoking Churchill and Roosevelt, Blair's 2003 address, and Iraq War rifts.
- [State Right’s | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/state-rights-2/): Tracing how U.S. power shifted from states to Washington, then back: New Deal era changes, Gallup and Roper polls, and Brandeis's laboratory ideal.
- [| Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/291-2/): Peter de Krassel's November 2005 horseback ride down San Vicente Boulevard, protesting 30 years of energy deregulation and oil company profits.
- [Devolution | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/devolution/): Making the case for Interlocalism: devolving power to regions as Scotland, Wales, and Catalonia gained autonomy, with lessons for U.S. states.
- [Department of Offense | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/department-of-offense/): How outdated Cold War doctrine and faulty intelligence doomed the Pentagon on 9/11 and in Iraq, from Rumsfeld's denials to troops' Hillbilly armor.
- [Waning Military Heritage | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/waning-military-heritage/): Declining enlistment as a hopeful turn from war: Vietnam draft dodging, Cheney's deferments, rising conscientious objectors, and Operation Truth.
- [The Hidden Costs of War | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/the-hidden-costs-of-war/): Beyond military budgets: the psychological toll of Iraq and Afghanistan, from PTSD rates and rising suicides to the Fort Benning soldier killings.
- [Citizen Soldiers | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/citizen-soldiers/): Examining the unfair burdens on National Guard and reservists: lost jobs, denied VA care, and casualty rates falling hardest on poor minorities.
- [U.S. – Japan Military Folly | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/u-s-japan-military-folly/): Why backing Japan's remilitarization is folly: Koizumi's push to amend Article 9, the Yasukuni Shrine dispute, and Japan's latent nuclear capacity.
- [Arm Thine Enemy | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/arm-thine-enemy/): The contradiction of arming Taiwan while building China up through trade and technology, and Peter G. de Krassel's case for a one-China policy.
- [One China | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/one-china/): China's 2005 Anti-Secession Law as reaffirmation, not shift: Taiwan's own constitution, cross-strait investment, and the KMT's historic mainland visit.
- [Taiwan Folly | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/taiwan-folly/): Why U.S. military involvement in Taiwan is counterproductive and inconsistent: Bush's pledge, the Taiwan Security Enhancement Act, and 7th Fleet moves.
- [Sino-America War | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/sino-america-war/): A plea for diplomacy over confrontation with China: 400 annual U.S. recon missions, NSA spying from Taiwan's Yangmingshan, and Cold War lessons.
- [A Peaceful Democratic Iraq | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/a-peaceful-democratic-iraq/): Peter G. de Krassel argues Iraq's colonial borders cannot survive democracy and should split into separate Kurdish, Sunni, and Shiite states.
- [Kissing & Killing Cousins | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/kissing-killing-cousins/): A Shiite-led Iraqi government under Iranian sway could ignite a democratic wave across Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Syria, despite Arab and Persian rivalry.
- [Non Election | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/non-election/): The January 30, 2005 Iraqi election was rushed amid insecurity and low Sunni turnout; Adnan Pachachi's plea to postpone the vote went ignored.
- [Surreal Dominoes | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/surreal-dominoes/): Comparing Iraq to Vietnam, this essay casts both as faith-based crusades, linking the domino theory, the Dulles brothers, and Abu Ghraib to My Lai.
- [Inauguration | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/inauguration/): Bush's $40 million 2005 inauguration, funded by ExxonMobil and other oil donors, mirrors Baghdad's staged democracy, argues Peter G. de Krassel.
- [No Blog Posts Until August | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/no-blog-posts-until-august/): Peter G. de Krassel announces a blog hiatus until August 1st while traveling to promote his books Custom Maid Spin and the forthcoming Custom Maid War.
- [Shock and Awe Urban War | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/shock-and-awe-urban-war/): The 2003 shock and awe campaign faltered as Rumsfeld and General Franks underestimated Iraqi resistance, turning a predicted quick war into urban combat.
- [War Costs, Beneficiaries and Beasts of Burden | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/war-costs-beneficiaries-and-beasts-of-burden/): Wars enrich the government, oil giants, and defense firms while citizens pay, from the 1991 Gulf War's oil windfall to Iraq's $74.7 billion price tag.
- [Magnified Anglo-American and Sino-Latino Differences | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/magnified-anglo-american-and-sino-latino-differences/): America magnifies stereotypes of Chinese and Latino peoples through political fear-mongering; the essay urges a cultural marriage of East and West.
- [Home Grown and Imperial Dramas | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/home-grown-and-imperial-dramas/): America exports a democratic model while practicing militarism and corporate fraud, from the 2000 Florida vote to its role as top global arms dealer.
- [Islamic Democracy | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/islamic-democracy/): Few Muslim-majority states are democratic, yet reformist movements in Iran, Indonesia, and Qatar offer hope, citing Freedom House data and Amr Moussa.
- [Separation of Church and State | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/separation-of-church-and-state/): The Founders built a secular nation, yet Bush and Joe Lieberman inject religion into politics; Peter G. de Krassel calls for a modern Enlightenment.
- [Breach of Faith | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/breach-of-faith/): The Catholic Church's betrayals, from the Boston abuse scandal to banker Roberto Calvi's death, prompt a call for American Catholics to reform the Vatican.
- [The Trilogy | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/the-trilogy/): Religion, politics, and sex form the trilogy at the root of today's world disorder, argues Peter G. de Krassel, urging a blending of East and West.
- [New World Disorder | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/new-world-disorder/): U.S. politicians manufacture China as an enemy to distract from corporate rule and terrorism, argues Peter G. de Krassel, tying it to the 9/11 attacks.
- [Custom Maid | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/custom-maid/): The founding essay of the Custom Maid series: Peter G. de Krassel says an apathetic America, plagued by inequality and the Patriot Act, needs a maid.
- [Peace Pipe | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/peace-pipe/): The U.S. cannot secure Asian peace without China, which hosts Korea talks and stays neutral on Kashmir, spanning North Korea, Palestine, and beyond.
- [What Rights & Whose | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/what-rights-whose/): America preaches human rights yet delayed the Genocide Convention 40 years, spurned the ICC and Kyoto, and holds Guantanamo detainees, de Krassel writes.
- [US Philippine Corrupt Parallels | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/us-philippine-corrupt-parallels/): Corruption parallels between the U.S. and Philippines: campaign cash under Bush and Arroyo, Halliburton, Enron, Philcomsat, and Hong Kong's remedy.
- [Why Keep Losing By Backing Losers? | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/why-keep-losing-by-backing-losers/): Why U.S. foreign policy fails by backing authoritarian rulers: the Saudis, the 1953 Iran coup against Mossadeq, and snubbing Mao and Ho Chi Minh.
- [The Catholic Church | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/the-catholic-church/): The Catholic Church's hypocrisy on contraception, clergy sex abuse, and past deals with Hitler, and why de Krassel demands church and state stay separate.
- [What Rights & Whose | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/what-rights-whose-2/): Peter G. de Krassel argues the U.S. lacks standing to lecture China on rights, citing slow treaty ratification, ICC refusal, and Guantanamo detentions.
- [UNfunded Failure | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/politics/unfunded-failure/): The UN is obsolete, de Krassel argues, proposing a Global Security Council in Hong Kong with equal civilization votes and Chinese as official.
- [Free China Trade | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/china/free-china-trade/): America blames China for trade woes while shunning free trade itself: the yuan pegged since 1995, quotas on textiles and TVs, a deficit only after 1993.
- [Free China Trade | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/free-china-trade-2/): U.S. protectionism, not China, drives trade tension: currency pegged to the dollar since 1995, textile and TV quotas, and 21 years of American surplus.
- [UNfunded Failure | Custom Maid® Books](https://custommaidbooks.com/uncategorized/unfunded-failure-2/): De Krassel calls the UN a Cold War relic, urging a Hong Kong based Global Security Council with equal votes for major civilizations.