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 […]

“We are not only fighting the virus but also against conspiracy theories,” said.[1] a spokesman for the Wuhan Institute of Virology,[1] “conspiracy theories only create fear, rumors, and prejudices.” He was trying to crush an idea that has been growing in popularity since the beginning of the COVID19 coronavirus epidemic: that his virology lab in the […]

“We are not only fighting the virus but also against conspiracy theories,” said a Chinese government spokesman. “conspiracy theories only create fear, rumors, and prejudices.” But when you start looking at the claims on the internet that the epidemic – that has already infected nearly 500,000 people worldwide and caused 10 Trillion Dollars in asset […]

Wall Street Journal: Last week, despite Donald Trump’s repeated pledge to end American involvement in the Middle East’s conflicts, the U.S. was on the brink of another war in the region, this time with Iran. If Iran’s retaliation for the Trump administration’s targeted killing of Tehran’s top commander, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, had resulted in […]

It is crucial to first under the historical background to Yemen’s Civil War. North Yemen became a state after the end of the Ottomans in 1918 (WW1). Much like Palestine, South Yemen was part of British India, and became a formal colony in 1937 i.e. an independent state protected by Britain. An insurgency against the […]

Yes, we know. This past week an Iranian lawmaker (Ahman Hamzeh) reportedly offered a $3 million bounty for the assassination of President Trump and called for the country to produce long-range missiles less than a month after the killing of famed military commander Qassem Soleiman. Hamzeh is from Kerman Province, which is Soleimani’s hometown. It […]

Evangelicals still prefer an evil man like Saint Trump over someone who behaves like an actual Christian!

Before you say – oh here’s someone with a tin foil hat on or a conspiracy monger – just take a few moments and consider many baffling elements of Suleimani’s death. None of it makes sense. There is in fact a very credible case for mass manipulation of the public, and for the death itself […]

Modern day Americans have never experienced a total collapse, only peripheral crises and crashes. Thanks to Hollywood, many in the public are under the delusion that a collapse is an overnight affair. They think that such a thing is impossible in their lifetimes, and if it did happen, it would happen as it does in […]

So, you do not believe the United States when they say Suleimani has always been an enemy?  Well yes, he was a surprisingly important operative in the region, carrying out important strategic objectives for the U.S.! Don’t believe me? Here are the facts: 9/11: In the chaotic days after the attacks of September 11th, Ryan […]

On Sunday, the Trump administration launched airstrikes against the Kataib Hezbollah militia’s forces in Iraq and Syria, killing 24 people and wounding 50. This was reported as a US retaliation against the Kataib Hezbollah, firing on an Iraqi military base, wounding four American servicemen and killing an American contractor. The US response was completely out […]

Underlying the one-year anniversary in mid-August of the signing of the ‘Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea’ is one of the greatest oil industry swindles in recent years. When representatives of the five Caspian littoral states meet on the 11th and 12th of August, Iran intends to seek some redress from Russia on […]

This week we witnessed a scathing rebuke of Trump’s morality in a leading Christian journal; only to find other leaders of the White Evangelical movement rise to Trump’s defense. How did a group that once proudly identified itself as “values voters” come to support a candidate who had been married three times, cursed from the […]

The rise in nationalism expressed in the polls across the West may be somewhat baffling for many analysts. Most recently, in UK elections, it was noted that nationalism was a dominant feature with the Conservative party’s near record win on a BREXIT agenda, Scottish National Party’s rise in Scotland, and Northern Irish nationalism also clear […]

Its far to someone. The Far East that is! And the Near East must be near to that same person, no? And then the Middle East must be in the middle of that person’s view of the “East”! Middle East must be halfway to the Far East, surely? How people refer to each other matters. […]

About 30 minutes south of DC’s Virginia suburbs is George Washington’s Plantation or Estate on the Potomac River, called Mount Vernon. He indirectly inherited it through family but ended up developing the estate into a decent mansion with incredible views of the Potomac River. If you haven’t been there, you should go. In the summer, […]