Obama in the Middle East: From Bad to Worse
President Obama's post-election promise of a "new dawn of American leadership" began in earnest five months into his first term with an important speech in Cairo June 4, 2009, appropriately titled, "A New Beginning." He started his oration by...
Just Politics: Iran, Like the Rest, Is Not Blameless
When the United States government declared its war on Afghanistan in October 2001, thus taking the first step in its so-called "war on terror," following the devastating attacks of September 11 earlier that year, Iran jumped on board. Then Iranian President...
Downed Fighter Jet Reported as 195 Are Killed across Iraq
Our Treasonous Foreign Policy
If you want to know why our "war on terrorism" has failed so miserably – if you want to understand how and why the harder we fight the more enemies we have to face – then read this recent piece in the Wall Street Journal on the evolution of the Syrian civil war, which...
275 Killed across Iraq; Ramadi Operations Stalled
Standing Up in the Spirit of America’s First Whistleblower Benjamin Franklin!
Our recent "Stand Up for Truth" whirlwind speaking tour through London, Oslo (see here and here), Stockholm and Berlin last week as well as webinars, visual presentations and speaking events in U.S. cities was exhausting but quite successful. Truth has always been a...
Where Does ISIS Get Those Wonderful Toys?
In the 1989 film Batman, after the caped crusader rescues a damsel in distress from the Joker using a fancy zipline gun, the clown prince of crime, played by Jack Nicholson, asks in bewilderment: “Where does he get those wonderful toys?” Especially upon seeing...
Do the Russians Have a Perspective on G-7 Sanctions?
Recently making the news was the successful attempt by President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, at the G-7 summit in Germany, to get all seven industrialized nations to continue economic sanctions on Russia in response to its annexation of Crimea...
129 Killed in Iraq as Families Return to Tikrit
Families are beginning to return to Tikrit after fleeing fighting earlier this year. They waited weeks to come back due to fears that the Shi’ite militiamen who liberated the town would seek revenge on them. At least 129 were killed and 20 were wounded: Mortars killed...


