SYNDICATED COLUMN: Is America’s Decline Inevitable?
This November: The Pessimist vs. the Cynical Pessimist This week, decline is on my brain. Specifically, the decline of America. “There’s not a country on Earth that wouldn’t gladly trade places with...
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Loopers
The 2000th U.S. soldier has died in Afghanistan, killed by an Afghan government soldier working for the Karzai puppet regime in a “blue on green” attack. Afghan government troops are trained to fight...
View ArticleSYNDICATED COLUMN: Stuck
Why Can’t the U.S. Move Forward? “Your dearest wish is for our state structure and ideological system never to change, to remain as they are for centuries. But history is not like that. Every system...
View ArticleSYNDICATED COLUMN: We Are All Soviets Now
Not-So-Secret “Secret Bombings” Have Big Implications Did Israel bomb Damascus yesterday? Of course it did. According to Syrian rebel sources, 42 Syrian army soldiers were killed. But Israel –...
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Silk Road to Ruin: 2nd paperback edition
The expanded paperback 2nd edition of Silk Road to Ruin: Why Central Asia is the Next Middle East comes out April 1, 2014. It is now available for pre-order from Amazon. The new edition updates the...
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: The Four Horsemen of the American Apocalypse
What the Media Can’t/Won’t Tell You About Why Russia Invaded Ukraine As usual, America’s foreign correspondents are falling down on the job. Stories devoid of historical context cast Russia’s...
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LOS ANGELES TIMES CARTOON: RoboSheriff
Computer algorithms drive online dating sites that promise to hook you up with a compatible mate. They help retailers suggest that, because you liked this book or that movie, you’ll probably be into...
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: Suicide Kills More Americans Than Gun Violence
As I waited for the body of a man who jumped in front of my train to be cleared from the tracks — less than a week before another train I was riding struck a suicide victim — it occurred to me that...
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Autographed Copies Now for Sale! Revised/Updated 2014 Edition of “Silk Road...
The expanded paperback 2nd edition of Silk Road to Ruin: Why Central Asia is the Next Middle East is OUT NOW. You can order it from Amazon or scroll below to order an autographed copy directly from...
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SYNDICATED COLUMN: Why I Miss the Berlin Wall
This week’s coverage of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall brought me back, not to warm fuzzies about peace and freedom and Gipper Ron Ron and winning the Cold War, but the reaction...
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America’s Long History of Meddling in Russia
Russia — OK, not the actual Russian government but a private click-farm company located in Russia — bought $100,000 worth of political ads on Facebook designed to change the outcome of the...
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Anti-Bernie Sanders Attack Ads Are Going to Be Awesome
Bernie Sanders is surging in the polls and might be the Democratic nominee for president of United States. If that happens, you know that Republicans will go after him for being a “democratic...
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When Collapse Comes, Everything Closes
In 1997, six years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, everything was closed. Could this be our possible future?
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Save America, Throw the Landlords Under the Bus
We can save the economy. We have to throw the landlords under the bus to do it. At this writing, 26.5 million Americans have lost their jobs to the national lockdown...
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I Know Why They Don’t Know
To me getting vaccinated was a simple decision: whatever risk there is from a relatively new technology is erased by the near certainty of severe illness if you get COVID-19. But a lot of Americans...
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Your Government in Action
When the COVID-19 pandemic first began, the US government should have began immediately shipping hundreds of masks to every American family from some giant warehouse somewhere. Now it’s the third year...
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How We Got Here: A Brief History of the Ukraine Conflict
American media outlets characterize Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as, variously and concurrently, the bloodthirsty act of a Hitlerian madman, part of an attempt to reconstitute the former...
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