EMPIRE
Airstrikes & Assassinations: America’s Violence Is No Longer Foreign Policy — It’s A Mirror
The Empire Strikes Abroad And Bleeds At Home – A Nation Lost In Its Own Reflection In an age where we scroll past news of missile strikes and assassinations the same as we do with weather reports, it’s essential to take a step back and ensure we analyze the bigger picture. […]
US Launches Two More Airstrikes in Somalia
According to AFRICOM, one strike targeted al-Shabaab and the other targeted ISIS US Africa Command announced on Saturday that its forces launched two more airstrikes in Somalia as the Trump administration continues to bomb the country at a record pace, an air campaign with virtually no media coverage of the […]
The Strait of Hormuz – Incoming Global Energy Crisis?
Supply chain constraints are inevitable during wartime. Shippers are actively avoiding the Strait of Hormuz that connects the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Sea amid the Iranian nuclear tensions. This is a significant disruption as around 20% of global oil is funneled through this passageway. Oman’s Musandam Peninsula hosts a […]
IRAN-CHINA RAILWAY: ‘The Steel Arteries of Independence’
As argued in a report published by Foreign Policy and authored by Jeffrey Lewis, director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, the coordinated strikes by the US and Israel on Iran’s nuclear facilities are not merely focused on the physical sites or centrifuges, but rather aim […]
US Colonel Sacked by DoD for Echoing America’s Discontent Over US-Israel Backing
Colonel Nathan McCormack, a Pentagon official, was dismissed from his role at the Joint Chiefs of Staff due to social media posts in which he labeled Israel a “death cult,” and described Netanyahu and his administration as “Judeo-supremacist cronies,” and raised doubts about whether the United States is genuinely acting […]
The Middle East
QUESTION: I was watching a show that said Iran is peaceful and that a lot of Jews live there who fled Poland in World War II. Is this correct? What does your computer show as the outcome of this Middle East War? VD ANSWER: That statement used to be correct. Approximately 8,500–9,000 […]
Anxiety Attack
“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” —Marcus Aurelius You must have noticed by now how this Fourth Turning bidness disorders the collective mind. The churning zeitgeist is hard on the nerves, […]
This Is It! Trump Makes It Abundantly Clear That The Final Showdown With Iran Is Here
Events are moving so rapidly in the Middle East now that it is almost impossible to keep up with it all. We are literally watching history in the making, and our world is going to be a much different place once this is all over. There are some allies of […]
Americans Wary of War – Is Iran the Enemy?
The American people do not want war. The Iranian people do not want war, nor do the Russians, Ukrainians, or Israelis. Politicians lead nations on paths of death and destruction. The military-industrial complex succeeds, the neocons succeed, governments topple one another in search of power—but the people always lose. King […]
The American Game: Playing and Being Played on the Road to Nuclear War
“To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It’s irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.”Eugene O’Neill, The Iceman […]
