Politics

Our president won’t tell you this, but the United States is being played by the Iranians in the US-Iran war. We are being hoodwinked. We are being suckered.  We are being made the fool. One of President Trump’s favorite negotiating tactics is to exclude the people on behalf of whom he is negotiating and to
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By Howard Bloom Tuesday July 14th, the House of Representatives passed a bill to let states choose Daylight Saving Time as a permanent, year-round thing. It’s called the Sunshine Protection Act.  The bill passed by an astonishing 308 to 117. Now it has to go to the Senate and then to the president.  The president
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By Howard Bloom It’s time to be careful, very, very careful.  And it’s time not to let our domestic politics blind us.  As the Iranians and their allies, the Chinese, see it, a new balance of power is taking over the world.  And the United States is no longer the dominant superpower.  Far from it.  In fact, a Hezbollah official,
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By Howard Bloom This cosmos is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.  Among other things, it is replete with immaterial forces that have power over material things.  Yes, immaterial forces.  Forces you and I can’t see.  What in the world do I mean? At the very birth of the universe in a Big Bang 13.7 billion
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By Howard Bloom 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
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By Howard Bloom 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
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Iran and Israel are arranging their pieces on the chessboard before Israel retaliates against Iran’s October 1st attack. In that attack, you remember, Iran assaulted Israel with the biggest number of ballistic missiles in history—200 by Iran’s count, 180 by the Western media’s. On Wednesday, October 9, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had his first
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Joe Biden’s Oval Office Speech By Howard Bloom Joe Biden’s Oval Office speech Wednesday, July 24th, was more powerful than those who hate him may realize.  It was powerful for a simple reason: it focused on the importance of four forgotten American virtues: truth, character, decency and democracy.  It was a speech about what Joe Biden
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By Howard Bloom The current crisis over Joe Biden’s frailty has twisted Democrats like me in knots.   Wednesday morning, July 10, actor George Clooney published an opinion piece in the New York Times calling for Joe Biden to leave the presidential race and make room for a younger candidate. Clooney joined seven other celebrities asking
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