Why can’t there be world peace? Because every great nation wants to be on top. That means China, Russia, and the USA are battling to be the number one nation on earth. Why? Because biology has built something strange into us: the pecking order, the social totem pole, the ladder of status, what scientists call the “dominance hierarchy.” And
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“We must chop off Trump’s hand, slit Netanyahu’s throat, [and] annihilate Israel.” Gen. Ebrahim Jabbari, senior advisor to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps In the past week, the Middle East has been transformed dramatically. Here’s how. Iran says it has never pursued a nuclear weapon. In fact, Iran began work on nuclear weapons over 35 years ago,
On Friday June 13, White House envoy Steve Witkoff was meeting with Iran’s foreign minister in Rome in the hope of persuading the Iranians to abandon their program to build a nuclear bomb. The Iranians had made it clear over and over again that they would never end uranium enrichment, the key to nuclear bomb
“A once great American City, Los Angeles, has been invaded and occupied by Illegal Aliens and Criminals… I am ordering all necessary action to liberate Los Angeles from the Migrant Invasion.” President Donald J. Trump “Los Angeles would have been completely obliterated without my intervention.” President Donald J. Trump First, the facts. On Friday, June 6th, an
To many of us Americans, it feels as if the world has been turned upside down. Why? First of all, we are torn between two radically different truths, the MAGA truth and the Democrat truth. Those two truths are what led Newt Gingrich, a person I’ve worked with, to say on Wednesday, June 4, that there is
On May 19th, after a two-hour phone call with American President Donald Trump, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin made a promise. Putin promised that he would work with Ukraine on a memorandum to advance president Trump’s effort to end the Ukraine War, the War that Donald Trump told voters he would stop in his first 24 hours in
At 6:01 pm on the evening of May 20th, CNN published a story reporting that, “The US has obtained intelligence suggesting that Israel is preparing to strike Iranian nuclear facilities.” The story, says CNN, came from “multiple us officials familiar with the latest intelligence.” And what was their data source? “Private messaging from senior Israeli officials,
Today’s world is driving some of us insane. Especially us liberal Democrats. Why? The realities we take for granted are heaving beneath our feet. For example, Democrats believe that standard ethical and moral norms have been swallowed by a sinkhole. On May 14th, our president openly used his Saudi trip to make business deals for his family.
On April 22nd, in a scenic valley in the Western Himalayan mountains known for its breathtaking beauty, five armed men in military uniforms emerged from the pine forest, rounded up a group of tourists, forced the men to sit or kneel, asked each man his religion, and if the answer wasn’t Islam, killed him at
Wednesday, April 29th, in New York State’s capital, Albany, Governor Kathy Hochul and the leaders of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate announced an agreement on a whopping $254 billion state budget—a budget that still requires approval by the New York State Legislature. Buried in that quarter-trillion-dollar deal was something
The evening of April 22nd at 7:08 pm the Washington news publication Axios revealed the hidden details of Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Ukraine, his “final offer.” What did our president’s peace plan require? That Ukraine recognizes as Russian a key piece of Ukrainian territory that Russia seized by force in 2014—a traditional headquarters for
On Monday April 14, 2025, the peer-reviewed sociology journal Socius published an article called “Breaking Free of the Iron Cage,” a striking title. Why was Breaking Free of the Iron Cage so arresting that even the lofty physics outlet Phys.org gave it space? StudyFinds, an outlet that sums up the latest eye-catching scientific research, said Breaking Free of
Cory Booker, during his 25-hour record-breaking Senate speech Monday night March 31st to Tuesday night April 1st described the current state of America as a “crisis” and emphasized that “these are not normal times in America, and they should not be treated as such.” Booker’s statement was dismissed as pathetic whining by MAGA cheerleader Sean Hannity. But it leads Democrats
On Monday, March 24, the Postmaster General and Chief Executive Officer of the United States Postal Service, Louis DeJoy, announced that it was his last day in office. In other words, he resigned without notice. DeJoy had been in office for five years, since Donald Trump appointed him in 2020. And he had been a subject of
It all started at 2 am Tuesday morning, March 18th. Israel broke the ceasefire. War planes filled the Gaza sky. Bombs were dropped. Thirty-five airstrikes were made. Hamas claimed that over 400 people were killed, most of them women and children. But remember, Hamas makes heavy use of lying in war. It’s called taqiyya, a form of lying
Why are Americans uneasy? A year ago, in the spring of 2024, The Chapman University Survey of American Fears, indicated that over 50% of Americans were worried about a third world war, corrupt government officials, and terrorism. Since then, things have gotten worse. Why? Because the earth seems to be shaking under our feet. And things
I’ve now seen death from two very different points of view. In 1988, I was hit by an illness without a name, an illness that would imprison me in my bedroom for the next fifteen years. Today it’s called myalgic encephalomyelitis or chronic fatigue syndrome. I lost nearly everything that had made me me, the
The Case of the Sexual Cosmos. The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature is Wrong is Howard Bloom’s latest book. Bloom takes us on a grand journey from the emergence of the first life, flowers, and all the way to stars and galaxies. Bloom shows how the forces that drive the
MIT physicist and cosmologist Max Tegmark says in his book Our Mathematical Universe that math is the universe. And many believe that ideas without a mathematical foundation are not science at all. Jesus had an opinion on this sort of thing. He said about the strictness of the high priests of his day, the Sabbath was made for man,
An attempt is being made to ban Howard Bloom’s book The Muhammad Code: How a Desert Prophet Brought You ISIS, Al Qaeda, and Boko Haram from the Public Library of Ottawa, the capitol of Canada. The Muhammad Code tells the story of the birth of militant Islam and of its goal—making war on the world
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