The entire Vietnam War claimed 58,000 American lives. In 2019, drug overdoses killed 70,980 Americans. And in 2020, the number of suspected overdoses in the U.S. — both fatal and nonfatal — was 18 percent higher year to year in March, according to the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program. And in April, overdoses were up 29 […]

With or without the Nuclear Program, if you thought that at any point in the past 40 years the US, or the UK for that matter, and all their allies wanted the Mullahs out of power, you are completely wrong. You don’t last 42 years in power in the region, without some serious ‘invisible hand’ […]

Forget COVID, Hickism is a disease common among residents of rural areas, causing the victim to become a “Hick”. When you suffer from Hickism, you are automatically immune to COVID – so you don’t have to wear a mask. The cause of Hickism is not yet known, but many believe that the symptoms themselves lead […]

AVIATION geeks love Iran Air, but for all the wrong reasons. Decades of sanctions have left Iran’s flag-carrier with one of the oldest fleets in the world, featuring museum-vintage aircraft like a 39-year-old Boeing 747SP, the only passenger aircraft of its type still in service. Blocked from ordering Western-built jets for three decades, Iran Air […]

The average person may be forgiven for thinking that the South won the Civil War. Despite a brief experiment in interracial democracy during the Reconstruction years, for much of its history the region has upheld a regime of brutal racial subordination. In the late 19th century, after the overthrow of Reconstruction, many of its state […]

In America, Democracy is dead. Oh, there is an illusion, that will be kept alive in history books, in the rhetoric of politicians, in the manipulated minds of America’s 95 million Main Street investors. The propaganda machine works. Like a child’s fairy tale, democracy has been deeply embedded in everyone’s brains for decades; we prefer […]

Many of you may be too young to remember an Iranian Nuclear bomb test in 2003 on December 26th! And one year later there was a joint Israeli+Indian Nuclear bomb test in 2004 on the same calendar day in the Indian ocean. Both events were whitewashed because the consequences of the truth coming out would […]

How Does an 18% Approval Rating Result in a 58% Win? On a Thursday in August in Louisville, months before the 2020 election, a parade of cars filled with Kentucky Teamster representatives and labor groups, showed their fury at Mitch McConnell’s constant blocking of critical COVID aid. They drove by McConnell’s office raucously honking and bearing signs […]

Putin ‘was laughing uproariously’ at Trump after the 2018 Helsinki summit, Bolton says in explosive book. ‘This was hardly the way to do relations with Russia,’ former national security adviser claims. Among Mr. Bolton’s claims in the book is that Mr. Trump was reluctant to enact policies designed to clamp down on Russian aggression towards […]

We’ve just wrapped up another big mud slinging battle that should have ended on November 3rd but didn’t. The rhetoric was vile. At one-point Biden had to turn around and state categorically that he wasn’t a socialist. He boldly claimed that he beat Bernie Sanders for the Democratic party nomination for President. In America, it’s […]

Almost exactly one year after the US election in 2016, one of the Russian Oligarchs (Dmitry Rybolovlev) involved in secret dealings to get Trump elected (and Hillary out of the Whitehouse), sold a piece of junk (restored) Da Vinci painting for $450 Million US dollars at auction. The buyer, was Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS)of […]

At noon today Georgia is expected to certify its recount of the votes on November 3rd. Biden’s margin in Georgia has shrunk a little to 12,781. At the same time, it looks like Nevada will be certifying a Biden victory with a margin of less than 3,500 votes. And in Arizona, Biden’s margin is under […]

If you want political influence, you simply need to look at the following map of GDP by county that voted blue and red. Counties won by Democratic President-elect Joe Biden make up 70 percent of all U.S. economic output—or gross domestic product (GDP)—a new post-election study finds. “Trump’s losing base of 2,497 counties represents just […]

Neurotic leadership has consequences. It’s a common phenomenon in management science, that Neurotic Leadership, leads to Neurotic Organizations. Trump is certifiably a Neurotic. Trump has every sign of deep Narcissism, and other related psychological defects.  Often out of fear and opportunism, those that follow adopt and mimic the neurotic styles of influential leaders. In such […]

Let me start off by saying, that I do not support the Mullahs in Iran. Their human rights record is atrocious, their theft of democracy with candidate disqualification is atrocious, … I could go on and on! But the U.S. has relations with many countries that have similar if not worse records on human rights […]

He calls fallen soldiers’ losers but feels like people should vote for him because he increased the military budget. He calls evangelists idiots privately after a session where they put their hands on his head and pray but feels like evangelists should vote for him because he signed executive orders supporting school prayer. The point […]

Before I respond to this question, there are four core facts that must be kept in mind before we discuss IED supplies to Iraqi militia: Any time “Iran” gets blamed for anything, my antennas go up (and yours should go up too) – because its bullshit. Very often, Iran (and Iranians) get blamed for a […]

A curious feature of crowds in the Islamic Republic theocracy – post the ‘hostage crisis’ – has been constant chants under the lenses of foreign media of “Marg bar Amrika, Marg bar Ingelis, Marg bar Israil”! (Death to America, Death to England, Death to Israel). This is a curious paradox. There is clearly a political […]

Authored by Robert Guest TO UNDERSTAND THE difference between the Anglosphere and the Sinosphere, consider “South Park”. When this satirical American cartoon mocked Chinese censorship, China banned it. The show’s creators apologised: “We welcome the Chinese censors into our homes and into our hearts…Xi [Jinping] doesn’t look like Winnie the Pooh at all…Long live the […]

There is a book by Aleksandr Dugin, titled the Foundations of Geopolitics, and the Geopolitical future of Russia that is being circulated among the Russian military, police, and foreign policy elites and is also a textbook at the Academy of the General Staff of the Russian military. Dugin credits General Nikolai Klokotov of the Academy […]

The emergence of COVID-19 global pandemic has once again highlighted a huge void in global leadership. In its 70 years, the United Nations may have been hailed as the great hope for the future of mankind – but it has also been dismissed as a shameful set of organizations. It has infuriated with its numbing […]

One of the fundamental rights of a state is equality with all other states. This right is inherent in the concept of a state as a subject of International Law and is given general recognition by long-standing state practice. Precise definition of the principle of equality of states is difficult. The Charter of the United […]

Iran and Turkey could combine like France and Germany to create a new Central Asian union like the European Union (that I have named the Median Union)! Leveraging historical and cultural linkages to bring all the ‘stans’ together. This Union could be on par some day with other unions such as the EU, AU, China, […]

With the impending exit of Britain from the European Union, and America’s back-pedaling from many international agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and Paris Climate accord, there are signs that the ‘era’ of globalization is slowly but surely coming to an end. But, readers should be reminded that the world already has established many supranational organizations […]

Iran’s recent announcements that it would pursue a Chah Bahar (port) rail link to Afghanistan on its own without India finally made me realize how incredibly dependent the US is on Iran.  Strangely, this didn’t quite hit me until very recently, and in fact it should have been painfully obvious to US ‘war’ planners back […]

Don’t believe current polling. Yes, Biden is ahead. But so was Hilary. A poll in June means nothing – it’s NOT November. Democrats can not take anything for granted. Democrats can’t get cocky, or arrogant. Trump is a fierce competitor with very committed followers – who fly Trump flags in their front gardens and drive […]

US sanctions and dictatorial trade policies are backfiring, After the fall of the Soviet Union, the US became the sole superpower on the world stage and was able to take advantage of the vast global influence it had amassed since the late 19th century. But in recent years, this power has been fading. From the […]

Contrary to what most people think, Sanctions are not having the desired impact. In fact, we are in fact killing the U.S. – not Iran. They are plain stupid. And the outcome of very stupid policy makers. They are very naive. Very naive. Consider these twelve reasons, why: 1) Sanctions provide the Regime (the mullahs) […]

Total US Debt increased by $1 Trillion per month. It took the US over two centuries to accumulate its first trillion dollars in Federal debt, a number which was surpassed for the first time in the fourth quarter of 1981. Fast forward less then 40 years to today, when according to the US Treasury, total […]

What does it mean to be an “Iranian” tribe? The entire Iranian plateau and its bordering plains, extends from Euphrates River in the west, to the Indus River in the East, to the Oxus River in Central Asia and Manych River in the South Caucasus and the Caspian Sea in the North, and the Persian […]

Trump did not win the popular vote In the 2016 Presidential Election, Clinton received almost three million more votes (65,853,514 to 62,984,828). This gave Clinton a popular vote lead of 2.1% over Trump. The accepted – but false – wisdom after the election has been that Trump succeeded in awakening a popular movement of anger […]

Some have queried how it could be that President Putin would cooperate with President Trump to have OPEC+ push oil prices higher – when those higher prices precisely would only help sustain U.S. oil production. In effect, President Putin was being asked to underwrite a subsidy to the U.S. economy – at the expense of […]

Not an April fool. Gasoline is back under a buck in many parts of the U.S. The Oil Age has powered the world for well over a century. There have been two general schools of thought about how it will ultimately end. There were those who believed that oil production would peak and begin to […]

John Bolton, who? Oh, how quickly we forget? The ridiculously long international nightmare of John Bolton was over. Or so we thought when he resigned or was fired a few years ago! No? We all thought, Bolton’s top priority was always to push the US to go to war with Iran. Bolton, an experienced bureaucrat, […]

Iranians have a long list of historical grievances against the British. Yes, the Brits never paid their contracted royalties on Iranian oil extraction i.e. they literally stole Iranian oil for over 50 years in the 20th Century. And then there was the key event of the 1953 coup which toppled the nationalist Prime Minister, Mohammad […]

Once again, the unthinkable has happened! Who ever thought the housing market would turn to garbage in 2007, rendering Mortgage backed securities contracts into toilet paper! Rendering every ‘close’ US ally virtually bankrupt – from Iceland, UK…. You name it! And who ever thought Oil demand would plummet like it has in 2020, or that […]

I came across this map on display in the Smithsonian Library of Congress Museum. It says so much! This is one of the original maps used to carve up the Middle East after World War 1. Look at all the straight lines! This is the “US” copy, which shows that US was not an innocent […]

The American Empire has no compelling ideology anymore. Yes, all empires need an ideology to function. Why? Because for empires to function, everyone-everywhere must dance to the same beat.  Imagine UPS with their people in Alaska sorting a package differently to Florida?! Imagine Exxon, where the people marketing gasoline in Indonesia use a completely different […]

1.0 Paper currency will be eliminated: As the Chinese government continues its effort to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus, the country’s central bank told media it was going to begin literally cleaning its currency. It’s an extreme move that makes sense. Whether it’s dollars, pounds, euros, shekels, or in this case yuan, currency […]