President Trump has made clear that American forces will still be "hanging around" the Persian Gulf area with an eye on Iran, while demanding that the Strait of Hormuz be opened to global energy transit once again. Trump has vowed to keep troops...
The Samson Option, Israel’s doctrine of last-resort nuclear retaliation, is no longer a theoretical contingency. At the end of seven weeks of war in the Persian Gulf, the conditions that might trigger it are not emerging; they may already be present. What began as a...
Here we go again. Trump is sending two Zionists—the real estate developer Steve Witkoff, son-in-law Jared Kushner, and VP J.D. Vance—to Islamabad, Pakistan, this weekend to “engage with the Iranians,” as CNN, soon to be owned by the Ellison...
Is personal freedom a reality or a myth? Does the government execute the will of the governed or the will of those who finance its officials? Does the Bill of Rights restrain the government? Are the levers of government power pulled by those the governed have elected...
Here is the non-news news flash up front — The alleged ceasefire between the United States and Iran is kaput. While there has been no official announcement stipulating that it is over, trust me, it is over. The copium in the Trump administration in...
“We’re fighting wars, we can’t take care of … daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things… We have to take care of one thing: military protection.”—President Donald J. Trump Every bomb dropped abroad is a bill sent home. Every war waged in the name...
If you think the war is over, think again. Iran has not agreed to a ceasefire. They have agreed to stop retaliating as long as Israel and the US stop their attacks. So that ball is in the West’s corner. Despite the White House claim that the Strait of Hormuz is now...
Bloomberg: “It is arguably Iran that has secured the most significant strategic victory … There is every sign that Tehran’s ability to control the Strait is increasing” The defeats which the West keeps on having “[are] above all … intellectual.” And “not being able to...
The latest American-Israeli aggression against Iran has exposed the United States’ inability to defend our big bases in the Gulf Countries and smaller bases in Iraq. For decades, these countries have had to endure the ire of their populations who are unhappy with the...
Iran’s air defense system succeeded on Friday, April 3, in downing a US F-15E over Iran. There is some dispute and confusion about the exact location (more about that later). The pilot and the WSO (i.e., Weapons System Officer) both successfully ejected but were...
It was a few minutes past five in the morning on Easter Sunday, April 5 when President Trump, with all the élan of a drunken sailor suffering from coprolalia, mounted his social media and posted the following: Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all...
Following President Trump’s address to the nation on Wednesday about the Iran War, stock markets suffered losses while oil prices rose. The decline in stocks and increase in oil prices reflected disappointment over President Trump’s failure to articulate a plan to end...
This past week was what many Christians regard as Holy Week, starting with celebration of Jesus Christ’s Last Supper on Holy Thursday; mourning Christ’s crucifixion and death on Good Friday; continuing with prayer and church services on Holy Saturday; and concluding...
Not long ago, Trump and crew claimed the evil mullahs in Iran slaughtered 30,000 of their own citizens. Since that time, there has been a revision. Now Trump insists the number is 45,000. Larger numbers look better when it is the only fabrication that might be...
The short answer is “no.” Trump was confabulating when he said that he was already in negotiations with “important” Iranians. There is a back history to the US’ “negotiations narrative.” In earlier rounds of “negotiations” centred on the Ukraine conflict, Trump...
I am old enough to remember when your family members could accompany you to the airport and share a meal with you before your flight or wait at the gate with you until you boarded your flight. There is one thing preventing a return to those idyllic times: the TSA. The...
“That God, which ever lives and loves,One God, one law, one element,And one far-off divine eventTo which the whole creation moves.” -- Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) When American colonists were oppressed by British monarchs, the word most frequently uttered in...
WSJ: UAE preparing to formally enter the war, the first Gulf state to become a combatant lobbying for a UN Security Council resolution authorising force to open the Strait of Hormuz. Emirati diplomats racing across Washington, Brussels and Tokyo. Abu Dhabi wants US...
As I was leaving the University of the Communes in Tocuyito, after a joyful and uplifting visit, an earnest young Professor came up to me and pulled me aside. Very quietly, he asked me what was going to happen. A number of the students were terrified there would be...
US President Donald Trump is reportedly ready to give up on the Persian Gulf passage: Trump Tells Aides He’s Willing to End War Without Reopening Hormuz (archived) – WSJ In recent days, Trump and his aides assessed that a mission to pry open the chokepoint...
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