re: I did read the article.
No offense, ER. I have studied Oswald Spengler and his cyclic theory. The theory still has some life in it. The "Asia Times" Spengler chose his nom de plume very deliberately. He is highly literate, ironic, and assured and resolute in his views. Asia Times owes a lot of its readership to this one author. Apparently he is practicing a form of what was common in, say, Elizabethan England: concealment of identity by people connected to positions of power. There has been much speculation about who he might be.