The Sahel region of Africa stretches from Senegal to Cameroon, and is the lands between the jungle and the desert. It is a vast region under the strong influence of the French and increasingly with American military assistance. According to France 24, while the USA is having a bout of severe fires in the Western […]
Wildfires are a well-known problem in California. However, it seems that with each year, the wildfires are getting worse. There may be truth to this, as the AP reports that the current round of California wildfires are some of the worse on record and continue to sweep the state. When it comes to California wildfires, […]
The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a very serious set of consequences for the world, as it contains within it the seed to potentially alter forever the means of human interactions, economics, and more fundamentally speaking, what it means to be a human and the relationship of man to robotics. There have been many […]
There is always a lot of controversy it seems around the Trump administration, but Axios reports that a new book by Robert Woodward has new allegations reporting in interviews that major figures in the Trump administration have deep suspicions of him, including ties to Russia and to other nations. Former director of national intelligence Dan […]
By Theodore Shoebat With the decline of American hegemony, comes the rise of regional powers who want to revive their past empires. We are seeing this with Turkey expanding herself in the Eastern Mediterranean and having her troops in northern Syria; we see this also with Iran entrenching her leverage and influence in Iraq (and […]
The situation of jobs today in the US is serious issue, for amid changes taking place caused by COVID-19, there are a lot of people out of work and still more at a serious risk of losing their jobs. However, there have been a lot of people who are trying to say that things are […]
Anti-clericalism has never died, but now it is back in fashion again as the Australian province of Queensland passed a law ordering priests to break the seal of the confessional in cases of alleged child sexual abuse or go to jail. Priests in Queensland will now be compelled to break the seal of confession to […]
By Theodore Shoebat The Greek military has recently warned Turkey that it does not play games. The Turkish Foreign Minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, told the Greeks: “If you have the guts, come”. As we read in a report from the Greek City Times: The insulting characterizations of the Greek Armed Forces by Turkish President Recep Tayyip […]
The US is in a lot of trouble because of COVID-19. The pandemic has been used to destroy incomes, put people out of work, and cause a tremendous amount of economic chaos. This had been coming for years, for as I have written many times before, the chaos should have happened back in 2007 but […]
By Theodore Shoebat We are returning to history:
Joaquin Guzman, known as El Chapo, was an infamous drug traffickers whose reign of horror has come to an end in an American prison cell. El Chapo became famous for having people tortured to death in horrible ways, and he even paid a doctor on staff to keep his victims alive so they could be […]
The third and fourth military superpowers in the world are exchanging threats again over border disputes as the AP reports that China and India appear to be preparing to clash over a geopolitical crossing in the disputed Ladakh region, which is a village called Chulshul. India and China accused each other on Tuesday of making […]
By Theodore Shoebat 50% of Greeks say that the military should be used against Turkey. Beside the fact that such an action would result in an utter bloodbath and slaughterhouse, this pole indicates a rising dangerous nationalism. As we read in a report from the Greek City Times: A poll has found that nearly 50% […]
There has been much criticism about the police overuse of force. I speak not of cases where it is clear that force is justified, but in cases where discretion is necessary, and clearly obvious, deadly force is used without balance to the situation. Such an example seems to have taken place in Utah, where a […]
Trump is known for making a lot of divisive statements. According to a recent one reported on by Yahoo! News, Trump has said that the troops love him even if military leadership does not. President Trump said Monday that he has the support of U.S. troops, if not necessarily their bosses in the Pentagon. “I’m […]
Years ago there was discussion about the rise of ‘metrosexuals’, or effeminate men who confused personal grooming habits with those of effeminate behavior. Three decades later, a new trend has emerged, building off of this plus the increased isolation, reliance on technology, obsession with status and attention, declining incomes, and the depersonalization of human interactions, […]
