Trump is a narcissist Individuals with NPD (Narcissistic Personality Disorder) display the following symptoms: Grandiosity with expectations of superior treatment by others.Fixated on fantasies of power, success, intelligence, attractiveness, etc.Self-perception of being unique, superior, and…

Two tankers with petrochemical products were attacked while crossing the Gulf of Oman this past week. Coming only a few days after Trump sanctioned Iran's petrochemical exports points to Iran's involvement. Despite the obvious lack…

The writing is on the wall. All economic metrics are trending downward. And, there are anecdotal observations of a significant downturn. All over America, large portions of our major cities are being transformed into stomach-churning…

Just a year ago, at a Paris gathering, Bolton told members of the Iranian exile group, known as the Mujahedeen Khalq, MEK, or People’s Mujahedeen, that the Trump administration should embrace their goal of immediate…

Since its clear that our administration needs some ‘help’ in navigating a pathway to normalization with Iran’s mullahs, here is some (unsolicited) advice for the Trump/Pompeo team. America’s goal should be normalization between US (and…

The Trump administration made a grand and empty show Friday of announcing the dispatch to the Middle East of 1,500 US military personnel, allegedly to signal Iran not to attack US troops in the region.…

In “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media,” published in 1988, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky exposed the techniques that the commercial media used to promote and defend the economic, social and…

This article is essentially a transcript of an Interview with Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, Gholamali Khoshroo with “Mr. Fish” who is also known as Dwayne Booth, is a cartoonist who primarily creates for…

Donald J. Trump’s presidential ambition has simmered for decades. He was and is a regular TV watcher and saw the changing political landscape. One by one, previous presidents diminished the integrity of the presidency and…

Iran Can Benefit from Possible Germany-Russia-China Alliance Upset by the US and its decisions, Germany may join an alliance between Russia and China, and this will provide Iran with a great opportunity to get rid…

Trump's Iran policies have left the country with no choice but to turn to Russia and China. The Trump administration continues to impose heavy (maximum pressure) sanctions on Iran and those that trade with it—which…

We are witnessing the wholesale realignment of global economic and political forces. Brexit, and US-China relations are only a few manifestations of a much larger ‘game’. At the heart of the transformation is the creation…

Our local independent movie theater was showing a film called “Meeting Mikhail Gorbachev”. In the film, Mikhail Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, sits down with filmmaker Werner Herzog to discuss his many achievements.…

Read the news very carefully. The war looming with Iran is a racket. We are watching a crisis unfold before us. The last few days have not inspired much hope in me – the United States and…

It’s a simple fact, for Israel all roads to prosperity lead through Iran. Over the next 35 years, the global economic power center of gravity will shift from advanced economies in North America, Western Europe…

One key issue facing US financial markets is the fiscal condition of the federal government in the next decade.  As deep throat suggested, to understand what is going you need to “follow the money”. So…

One of the ironies of the stand off between the Mullahs in Tehran and Trump’s administration is that the more Trump sanctions and threatens Iran, the more secure the Mullahs get (and the tighter their…

I am not a fan of the Mullahs, or British stooge Iranian President Rouhani, but even scum bags can say some good things.  And Rouhani this week accused the US of disrupting the flow of…

While Iran’s military involvement in regional conflicts and support for militant groups often make headlines, Tehran’s sophisticated soft power strategies aimed at promoting their ideological and political goals in the region are largely overlooked. However,…

Four years ago, in the midst of the Obama presidency, I published a book called “The Road to Character.” American culture seemed to be in decent shape and my focus was on how individuals can…

Victor Orbán's landslide electoral victory on Sunday, gaining 134 seats out of 199 in Hungary's parliament, increases his governing supermajority and endorses his tough policy of excluding illegal immigrants, especially from the Middle East. His…

Since its birth in the French Revolution, the modern nation has been defined by two opposing ideas. Civic nationalism, often referred to as patriotism, envisions the nation as a contingent, political construct, an abstract community…

A reader worries that President Trump is trying to rally support by initiating a conflict with Iran. Why go hard after Iran right now? Does Iran or one of its proxies in the Middle East…

What no one realizes is that Trump has already made a deal like the Bush (Daddy) made with the Democrats after Iran-Contra. The deal is: Mueller will come out with nothing, and he will publicly…

1)The Mullahs were installed by U.S. Yet, Republicans keep vilifying the Mullahs!! I know, I know, this is shocking for most Americans to appreciate. But, yes, Khomeini was hand picked to take over Iran’s governance…

Thousands of Iranian Jews and their descendants owe their lives to a Muslim diplomat in wartime Paris, according to a new book. In The Lion's Shadow tells how Abdol-Hossein Sardari risked everything to help fellow…

By Ian Greenhalgh “IT IS EASIER TO MISLEAD MANY MEN THAN ONE.” – HERODOTUS. (AS QUOTED IN F.E. ADCOCK’S 1963 BOOK, ‘THUCYDIDES AND HIS HISTORY,’ ON PG. 51. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: LONDON). “REALITY IS CREATED…

CIA-RDP80T00634A00050 SECRET 25X1 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY National Foreign Assessment Center 20 November 1978 INTELLIGENCE MEMORANDUM THE POLITICS OF AYATOLLAH RUHOLLAH KHOMEINI KEY POINTS ——Ayatollah Khomeini has long been the central figure in the conservative Shia…

The sudden break up in Hanoi was no coincidence. It was all choreographed before Trump set foot in Vietnam. Trump has used nearly every public opportunity to try to lower mounting pressure ahead of the…

The Saudi government still says it had no connection to the hijackers. But released classified information proves otherwise. Sometimes, reality is so absurd that it outstrips anything conspiracy theorists could come up with. After more…

One interesting phenomenon about the current “cold-war” with Iran, is that unlike the cold-war with the Soviet Union, Americans not only have animosity towards Iran and its government, but also against Iranians. Russians in the…

“It doesn’t take a psychiatrist to notice that our president is mentally compromised,” says Bandy X. Lee, the editor of “The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump” and an assistant clinical psychiatry professor at the Yale…

It was almost midnight in Rotterdam (Holland), when I drifted into a Turkish Kebab shop down the main retail drag to find food! Standing there waiting, I am asked where I am from by the…

Since the 1979 revolution, containment has been the default policy of the United States toward Iran. It has never been a policy eagerly embraced by any U.S. administration. But unless the Iranian regime collapses or…

The end of the British empire is marked by the rise of Mossadegh. It was Mossadegh after all who rose up to the Brits and gave courage to countless leaders across the Middle East, Asia…

I read this article on thedrive.com (http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/26289/irans-newest-homemade-drone-is-an-unmanned-conversion-of-a-1940s-american-jet-trainer) and it made me furious. I was going to leave a comment at the base, but when I read the other comments it made me vomit. So, I…

A former commander of NATO said allies of the U.S. are asking whether President Trump was blackmailed by Turkey to pull U.S. military forces out of Syria. In a CNN segment Monday, Wesley Clark, a…

Madeleine Albright’s new book, “Fascism, A Warning,” is an eloquent diagnosis of the grassroots ills that threaten democratic governments and give rise to demagogues like Donald Trump. As she warns, “When economic and social conditions…