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Saturday, March 30, 2024The Crocus Massacre, Seen from East and West Who was behind the Crocus massacre? It depends on if you look at it from the East or the West. 
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Friday, March 15, 2024AI Killed My Run for President -- the Sad Story It didn't matter that I'm a political genius; the AI was against me, and that was all that mattered. 
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Friday, March 1, 2024I Hear RFK Jr. Is Running for President Down the back stretch of the election campaign, it's going to be RFK Jr. versus Trump, with Prez Joe panting far behind. 
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Monday, February 12, 2024The Middle East: the Delicate Art of Punishing without Provoking Punishing militias without provoking a war: like coochy without coo, cussing without swearing. 
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Monday, January 22, 2024The Terminal Stain that Grows in the West Between the leaders of governments and the media, the West is sinking. 
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Wednesday, January 10, 2024Houthi Terror Hits America in the Wallet! Now at every store I visit they tell me they have raise their prices because the Houthis are making business impossible. I say this is a scam. 
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Monday, December 18, 2023Investment Advice for 2024 Where there's a war, there's a way, says my financial advisor. 
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Friday, December 8, 2023Look Out, World: My Army's Coming! With those self-made men, the Houthis, as my role model, I've decided to make my own army. 
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Monday, November 27, 2023My Outlook Email's been Backdated! Rather than being updated, Outlook has been backdated. Have programmers finally met their match, unable to improve and moving backwards? 
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Monday, October 30, 2023Israeli Self-Defense: Theory and Practice Are you confused about Israel's idea of "self-defense"? An Israeli set me straight. Kind of. 
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Wednesday, October 11, 2023Believe it or not, These are the Good Old Days How nostalgic will look this time when all worked, Before that point when at us history smirked. 
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Wednesday, September 27, 2023Ukraine's Collapse: Neocon Artists Save the Day When the Russians go on the offensive towards Kiev, the neocons will not shrug and say, "Well, we gave it our best shot." They'll get America into the war. Here's how. 
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Friday, September 15, 2023How the DNC Will Give Bobby the Bum's Rush I went undercover to see how the DNC plans to keep RFK Jr from getting the nomination. Scandal in its purest form. 
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Saturday, September 2, 2023The Coming American/NATO Phase of the Ukraine War The U.S. cannot possibly walk away from the Ukraine War when the Ukrainian effort collapses. 
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Friday, August 25, 2023What if the Democrats Put Trump in Jail? If Trump actually goes to jail, his followers will start shooting, and not at the police. Democrats are playing with fire. 
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Thursday, August 10, 2023Remember That Guy Who Said History is Over? History isn't over; it's just getting warmed up. Boy, did Francis Fukuyama ever get that one wrong. 
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Friday, July 28, 2023Summer Flicks: America at its Barest Oppenheimer, Barbie and Mission Impossible: they bare the American soul. 
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Saturday, July 8, 2023The New Hot-Button Issue: Air-Conditioned Streets! Air-conditioning for all everywhere is a right we must fight for and preserve. 
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Tuesday, June 27, 2023Putin: So Weak He Can Hardly Stand Up! After the Wagner comedy, everyone says Putin is weaker and weaker and weaker. It's amazing that he can get out of bed in the morning. 
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Thursday, June 15, 2023The End of the World? I'm Taking Bets. Will the end be from A.I., viruses, global warming, or nuclear holocaust? Place yer bet and make a fortune. 
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Monday, May 29, 2023U.S. Foreign Policy: the Beauty of Being Unbound With nobody to oppose them, the Biden people are free. Johnson and Nixon must envy them from their graves. 
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Sunday, May 14, 2023The Kremlin Attacked? Tell Me Another! It must be a consolation for Biden's people to know they can attack the Kremlin (and miss) and in America nobody will talk about anything but a false-flag op. 
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Friday, April 21, 2023RFK Jr. Sets His Sail for the White House On RFK Jr. and the challenges he faces as he hits the campaign trail. 
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Thursday, March 30, 2023I'm a Shoo-in for the Democratic Nomination I'm starting my run for the Democratic nomination because by then I'm going to be the only candidate. They'll HAVE to elect me. 
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Saturday, March 11, 2023The Times Takes on Seymour Hersch The NY Times puts out a non-news non-version of the Nord Stream sabotage. Hersch's version was better. 
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023Biden's Crew Takes the "Reck" out of "Reckless" Biden's foreign-policy team is the most reckless in American history. 
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Tuesday, January 24, 2023Just Where is the "Battlefield"? I keep looking for the "battlefield" that everyone talks about, but I never see it. Where is this "battlefield"? 
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Sunday, January 1, 2023Russia's Upcoming Big Push Russia's big push, if successful, means a new chapter in world history, maybe good and maybe bad. 
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Wednesday, December 21, 2022Christmas Gifts for a Troubled World Gifts for world leaders, like slippers for Prez Joe and cocaine for Europeans. Something for everyone. 
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Wednesday, December 7, 2022I Used to be This Big Zelensky Fan Zelensky sets the tone for a country that fights by day and makes a fast buck at night. 
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Monday, November 21, 2022Some Suggestions for Banksy Here are some suggestions for Banksy paintings if he ever comes to Washington to do a few pictures about the war in Ukraine and Washington's hand in it. 
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022Post-Election Heaven Awaits the Victors After the marathon of speeches and handshakes, a pol can relax amidst the well-washed and powerful. 
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Sunday, October 23, 2022The Coming Nuclear Strike Against Russia America's nuclear strike against Russia will meet with nothing but applause in the west. 
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Thursday, October 13, 2022How Mistakenly Nuclear War Will Begin Like all wars, the next one will begin with mistaken perceptions. 
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Friday, September 30, 2022The Coming Nuclear War: Pros and Cons Empty your bucket list and stock up on corned beef. Some considerations of the coming nuclear war. 
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Monday, September 12, 2022The Black-Hole War Despite all the reporting, it's still hard to say who's winning the war. 
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Saturday, August 27, 2022Some People Swipe Hotel Towels; Trump Swipes Secret Papers Trump taking those papers was like the guy that gets gypped on a hotel room and takes the towels. It's that simple. 
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Saturday, August 13, 2022The Republic Tastes like Banana The Taiwan debacle, the throes of Ukraine, the Democrats hell-for-leather pursuit of Trump, and Trump's swiping Top Secret souvenirs: it's every man his hosana in our banana republic. 
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Monday, July 25, 2022Things to Enjoy Before the Revolution Hits These are the good old days that we'll tell the young about someday. Imagine that. 
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Monday, July 4, 2022Should Joe Biden Resign? Joe Biden more and more invites the term "poor old Joe." 
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Monday, June 20, 2022Prez Joe is Optimistic and So am I It's optimists like me and Prez Joe who are going to get in on the ground floor. Just watch! 
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Wednesday, June 8, 2022A Disastrous Future? Horsefeathers! All these doomsayers can go jump in a lake. Everything's going to be fine. 
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Monday, May 23, 2022Washington Lets Others Enjoy the Thrill of War Being just one pole in a multi-polar world is a drag. Hence the war in Ukraine. 
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Tuesday, April 26, 2022Is America Planning a First Strike Against Russia? Do the Americans want to go for a first nuclear strike against Russia? They've certainly prepared the groundwork for it. 
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Sunday, April 3, 2022What Else Could Russia Have Done? The U.S. drove Russia into a corner, got mad when it reacted, but has not let this fine crisis go to waste. 
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Friday, March 11, 2022The Cyclops Covers the Ukraine War The Cyclops looks at one thing and nothing else. Comparison is indeed the thief of joy. 
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Saturday, February 26, 2022Ukraine: Exceptionalism Will Out It's like Rambo, Bond, and Harry the Dirty: Exception will out when others get shirty. 
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Monday, February 14, 2022A New Letter or Two for the LGBT+ Crowd I'm feeling oppressed, underappreciated, dismissed, cast off, and loathed -- and it's only Monday. It would be a big help if people added XP to that growing line of abbreviations that starts with LGBT+. A BIG help. 
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Saturday, February 5, 2022Democracy is Dying for Another Party If there were more than the two fat and complaisant political parties, passions might have channeled properly and people might not charge the Capitol. 
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Thursday, January 20, 2022Don't You Just Love a Good Sanction? Choosing good sanctions is in itself an art, Performed with cool head and a naughty boy's heart. 
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Friday, December 24, 2021Christmas with Covid -- Maybe The holidays are upon us, so I think I'll ignore these Covid symptoms. . 
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Thursday, December 9, 2021Omycron: the Newest Villain Why did the scientists pass over ten letters between the "Delta" virus and the "Omycron" virus? Everything is marketing. 
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Tuesday, November 16, 2021The Malign Mystery of "It's" Writers who write on Internet won't believe this, but it is what it is. Or as they say in old Mexico: it's what it's. . 
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Thursday, November 4, 2021What Politician Will Sacrifice Growth to Reduce CO2? Will any politician make a serious dent in the GDP for the sake of climate change? 
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Tuesday, October 26, 2021Taiwan: What Biden's "Absolutely" Was Really About When President Biden said that he would "absolutely" defend Taiwan, he didn't mean absolutely absolute, according to his team. 
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Saturday, October 9, 2021After Biden, Le Deluge As much as pundits squawk and bearded guys assault the Capitol, the direction of the country is up to powers that operate in the dark. 
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Thursday, September 9, 2021Why Journalists Hate Truthers Journalists have a personal grudge against 9-11 Truthers. For a lot of reasons. 
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Thursday, August 19, 2021Is Anyone Feeling Humiliated? You hear a lot about America's humiliation in Afghanistan, but do you feel any? Does anybody? . 
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Wednesday, July 28, 2021On U.S. P.O.W.s Abandoned in Vietnam A reflection on how the hundreds of American P.O.W.s left behind in Vietnam are a reflection of political rot. 
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Sunday, July 18, 2021Afghanistan: At Least We're Good Losers Feeling low because of America's defeat in Afghanistan? Well, nobody else is, either. 
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Saturday, July 3, 2021"Non-Binary" is a Little Too Binary Is it possible to say that you are neither male nor female? It seems to me that's one choice too many. 
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Friday, June 4, 2021The Grassy Knoll Flu Conspiracy If the coronavirus was not leaked accidentally, it was leaked intentionally, which could have been done by either the U.S. or China. Is the Deep State getting desperate? 
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Sunday, May 9, 2021War, the National Pastime America swings from war to war like a monkey from branch to branch, and was as little care. 
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Thursday, April 15, 2021So America's not Going to Rescue Ukraine -- Right? Every expert says that if the Ukraine goes up against Russia, neither the U.S. nor Nato will come to its rescue. It would be a truly stupid move. Right. But we're talking about America and its foreign-policy moguls. Je doute. 
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Thursday, March 18, 2021With Corona Where Will We Be in a Year? In a year, we'll still be talking about Covid-19. It ain't over till it's over. 
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Monday, March 1, 2021Rodney Russia: No Respect at All! Russia gets no respect at all from the U.S. I'm glad to see they're getting some from China, which knows a good bet when it sees it. 
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Thursday, February 18, 2021Was Covid Really a Planned Pandemic? Maybe the Master of the Universe planned the Covid crisis: the results will be this, and the benefit to us will be that. Or maybe, as usual, they just knew best how to take advantage of it. Never let a good crisis go to waste. 
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Wednesday, February 10, 2021Pre-Trump vs. Post-Trump: It's a New Country A short survey of the pre- and post-Trump America: think fizz. 
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Friday, January 22, 2021If There's no Trust, the Social Contract Goes Bust Biden was right to call for a new unity, but unity begins with trust, and Trump fans aren't feeling much, having watched their man get the bum's rush. 
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Saturday, January 9, 2021"This is not who we are" -- Or is it? Both future-Prez Joe and Donald Trump Jr. said it: "This is not who we are. This is not us." But what if it is? 
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Sunday, December 20, 2020Why Are There So Many Movies About Hitmen? Hitmen and -women apparently come in all types: sensitive, cold, conscious-stricken, longing for retirement, vengeful. It's an amazingly well-documented profession. 
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Thursday, November 26, 2020When I See Pundits in Full-Court-Press Mode.... But when I see pundits in full-court-press mode, Methinks the full truth has still something owed. 
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Saturday, November 7, 2020An Election as Empty as a Beggar's Pockets More than an election, 2020 was a referendum on Donald Trump, and more on his style than his work. 
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Sunday, November 1, 2020The Campaign from Spain Looks Like a Pain The view of the American election campaign as seen from Spain: like your neighbors two houses down bickering over their back hedge. 
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Saturday, October 24, 2020Will the Election End in Chaos? The prospect of post-election chaos is real, and may even result in both candidates claiming victory. Maybe Afghan politicians can come and sort it out for us, as we did for them. 
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Monday, October 12, 2020Would the Founding Fathers Want to Change the Constitution? In a high-tech world and among a people so highly disparate as to almost not be a people at all, the Founders would be the first to suggest changes to the Constitution. 
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Sunday, August 30, 2020Kyle Rittenhouse Shows Us All Why Guns Should Be Banned It was Rittenhouse's gun that got him in trouble: it drew the ire of rioters and made him use it. 
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Thursday, August 13, 2020What if the Democratic Convention Turns into Another 1968? No doubt the protests at the Democratic convention, if any, will be calm and dignified, even boring, much like people waiting to board a bus. 
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Saturday, July 25, 2020The Ultimate Racial Fight: "Standard American English" If you think the George Floyd matter made the pot bubble, wait till the mob sets its sights on "Standard American English." 
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Wednesday, July 15, 2020Liberals: Free Speech is Great, but Let's Get Back to Normal The well-fed liberal's opinion on the protests of the last two months: we need a Covid vaccine! 
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Friday, July 3, 2020Putin Paid Bounties to Have Governors Misinformed about Covid-19 The real story is this: that snake-in-the-grass Vlad Putin paid for bounties on new U.S. infections, and as the stats show, his underlings really did the job. 
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Sunday, June 14, 2020Police Taking a Knee: a Great Moment in American History The pundits who decry police kneeling as a sign of the decline of America, the white race, European culture, and masculinity have it all wrong. It was a great moment in American history: the agreement between police and communities that things have gone wrong. 
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Friday, May 1, 2020Know the New Normal is Now the Normal New? It would be great to return to "normalcy," but the new normal is turning into the normal new, a societal house of mirrors. 
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Saturday, April 11, 2020Coronavirus Conspiracy Theory: The Total Skinny Was it the CIA? The Chinese? The big corporations? Turns out, it was all of them working together, everyone taking their little piece of the pie. 
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Monday, March 16, 2020Coronavirus: The Pain in Spain is Raining on the Brain Don't believe what they're telling you about Spain. Here it's total chaos: people running in the streets, robbing toilet paper, lynching politicians and looting banks. 
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Thursday, March 5, 2020High Noon in the Democratic Party The showdown at last between the pragmatists and Bernie. 
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Monday, February 24, 2020What if Bernie Wins it All? With the media and pundits and party all against him, what does it mean if this unelectable, too old, no-socialist-can-beat-Trump candidate ends up winning the presidency? 
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Friday, February 14, 2020Which Crisis is Going to Get us First? Crises are coming in droves, and it's only a question of time before one lands on our doorstep. 
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Wednesday, February 5, 2020Palestine: The Deal of the Penury The new capital of Palestine, according to the Trump plan? Ten ghettos in search of a city. 
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Tuesday, January 28, 2020Why is the News from China and Russia Always Bad? According to CNN, Fox, the Times, the BBC -- all of them -- the news from China and Russia is always bad. How can people live in places where the news is so consistently bad? Poor folks! 
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Thursday, January 16, 2020Is the Next President Too Important for Iowans to Vote on? Are other countries more qualified to vote for the next American president? They certainly wouldn't have voted in Trump. 
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Sunday, January 5, 2020Iraq: The Conservatives Love It! Isn't that the story of our foreign policy? Again and again we try to win other people their freedom, and they don't appreciate it. At. All. 
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Tuesday, December 24, 2019Brexit: Ruling the Waves Once Again The British won't know for ten years what a dumb move they've made. But they'll find out when they sit down to talk (pray for, beg?) trade deals with trading blocks several times bigger than they are. 
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Thursday, December 12, 2019The Big Peach Will Go Splat The big peach rolling through Congress is soft and hollow, and is going to go splat. 
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Tuesday, December 3, 2019Am I a White Male? Let Me Check" I hear that tiimes are hard for white males, but fortunately I'm a member of the right-handed six-footer club, so that "white male" stuff doesn't really apply to me. Kind of a relief. 
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Tuesday, November 26, 2019Should Cell Phones Be Banned? If there's anything in human history that demonstrates the principle of "two steps forward and one back," it's cell phones. 
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Wednesday, November 13, 2019Politics, Banks, Assange: Creating Your Own Reality Cures What Ails You I used to be skeptical of people who "create their own reality," but lately I've come to see that it has some real advantages, especially when plain old raw reality has you down. 
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Friday, November 1, 2019Max Blumenthal in Jail: They Haven't Done Him a Chelsea - Yet Us guys were sitting around after a hard day in Langley, wondering what to do about Max Blumenthal: a Julian, a Snowden or a Chelsea. You decide. 
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Thursday, October 24, 2019I Was a Russian Asset and All I Got Was This Lousy T-shirt Now that Tulsi and Doc. Stein have been outed as Russian assets, I may as well come out of the borscht myself. But it wasn't all it's cracked up to be. 
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Thursday, October 17, 2019Trump Illegalities: The CIA Guys Didn't Catch Half Those CIA guys left the field of battle to early, figuring that Ukrainegate would be enough to shuffle Don off to Buffalo. Here's the rest of the story that I witnessed. 
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Wednesday, October 2, 2019Ukrainegate: Do You Get the Feeling that Wash-town Wants Don Out? That whistle-blower wasn't one of those lying, sneaky running dogs from the Dept. of Health, but the CIA, whose reputation for probity, transparency and honesty is unimpeachable. So how could it be that he fibbed about that call to Ukraine? 
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Friday, September 20, 2019The Raid on Saudi: Masters of the World's Great Game Ask What Went Wrong Drones! Who'd have thought? Masters of the global chessboard sip their whiskies and reflect on how they got it wrong. 
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Thursday, September 12, 2019Danger in the Supermarket The supermarket is my weekly contribution to the demise of the earth. How'd we get into this mess? 
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Sunday, September 8, 20199/11: American Empire Begins its Final Phase What is 9/11 in the broader perspective of American history? It is nothing less than the beginning of the last phase of empire, the instinctive, frightened embracing of the military, which comes to dominate government. 
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019Why the White House Staff Agrees Their Man is the Chosen One Trump's staff is sad he's so misunderstood as his accomplishments pile high, like tomatoes and onions on his Whopper. 
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Thursday, August 15, 2019Do 17 Intelligence Agencies Make Us More Intelligent? Our government is bursting, overflowing, abounding in intelligence. This is the apex of a thousand generations of human progress. Makes you glad to have lived this long. 
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Thursday, August 1, 2019How I Sneaked into the Democrats' Debate In the first night of the last debate, I slipped into the lineup and kicked some serious Democratic ass. 
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Tuesday, July 23, 2019Don is "OK" with War or without It President Trump is "OK" with or without war on Iran. It's a level of flexibility rare in a politician. 
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Friday, July 12, 2019Here's Why Trump Called off the Attack Now that all the dust has settled, the real story finally comes out: it's Ivanka who carries the big stick in the White House. 
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Wednesday, July 3, 2019Are Those "Adults in the Room" Still on the Job? Remember the letter from "Anonymous" in the NY Times? He/she mentioned "adults in the room" keeping Trump on the right track. What happened? Are they in the wrong room? 
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Thursday, June 27, 20199/11 and Iran: Life Imitates Art America attacks Iran as the result of a false-flag attack. It's odd to have written the story long before it happened. 
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Monday, June 17, 2019The Iranian Limpet Mine: the Scoop on the Lowdown on the Skinny This is the true story of the limpet bomb, and from sources so high only dogs can hear them. 
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Friday, June 7, 2019When You Think About the Plague from L.A., Global Warming Doesn't Sound so Bad. Plagues, viruses, and infestations are coming out of California, and there's no money to deal with them. This situation gives global warming a better name. 
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Wednesday, May 29, 2019The Terminator School of Diplomacy The world's leaders have taken their measure of Trump and found that rather than a yardstick, a 12-inch ruler will do. 
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Friday, May 17, 2019What if Iran Attacks in America? How long will it be before one of America's victims realizes that it's more picturesque to derail a train than sink an aircraft carrier? 
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Thursday, May 9, 2019Iran Pulls Out: The Start of Big Things to Come With all the heavy weather knocking about in the international arena, thank goodness the sure hands of Don Trump and his crew are at the wheel: guys who can put Humpty Dumpty back together and drink a piña colada doing it. 
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Wednesday, April 24, 2019Pompeo's Full Iran Sanctions Will Backfire How far does Pompeo think he can push Europe before it fights back? If he fines just one country over sanctions on Iran, he'll find out. 
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Friday, April 5, 2019What Happened When Joe Biden Wanted to Sit down at the Democratic Table Nobody pulled his chair out from under him -- that was fake news. The truth is that the chair, table, and room had all moved to the left. No problem: Joe stood up, grinning as always. 
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Friday, March 22, 2019What if The Second Coming is Fake News? The Second Coming of Christ is likely to be taken as the latest bout of fake news. 
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Wednesday, March 13, 2019Nukes for Saudi Arabia: It's a GREAT Idea Why not sell nuclear-power plants to Saudi Arabia? NOTHING is going to happen: the guys in good suits say so. And these are guys who have been around the block, passed a football, shot at terrorists, and eaten greasy pizza: salt-of-the-earth types. And I for one trust 'em. 
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019AOC Should Announce for the Republican Nomination She's not old enough? No prob: it's like kids who lie about their age to get into the Marines. She's not a Repub? Chill: only her hairdresser knows for sure. 
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Thursday, February 14, 2019Ten Years for Climate Correction? Try Twenty. Or Thirty. Once we've goone through these ten years or so to correct climate change, don't worry. We'll get ten more. 
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Saturday, February 9, 2019Running for the White House? Buy the Pack Tulsi Gabbard! Your campaign for president isn't going anywhere if you don't invest in some bots. 
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Monday, January 28, 2019Guaido, the Self-Proclaimed/Made Man There's nothing like a self-proclaimed president to answer the prayers of American diplomacy. 
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Wednesday, January 16, 2019Will the Shutdown Go 60 Days? Nobody's backing down and nobody's going to back down, and nobody's thinking about backing down. Here's advice to Democrats: back down. 
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Saturday, January 5, 2019Nancy Pelosi is Off the Table If the re-election of Nancy Pelosi is a sign of where the Democrats are headed, the Establishment is leading America to another 1968. 
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Thursday, December 20, 2018Trump on Syria: Christmas Really Does Bring Miracles A broken clock is right twice a day, and a broken president about once every four years. Yes, it was a no-brainer, but how many no-brainers have the foreign-policy mandarins figured out in the last 20 years? 
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Thursday, December 13, 2018Santa's Heavy Washington Wish List Why did President Trump ask the Saudis to invite Robert Mueller to their consulate for a Christmas cocktail? Hmmm.... 
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Sunday, December 2, 2018This Wonderful World Awash in Capital Meet Timmy the lawn-mowing kid, hustling employee of Chad the Lawn Bard, a division of Scrooge Inc., part of Groupe Sluice, which has contracts with the Pentagon. 
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Monday, November 19, 2018Is Sustainability Really Sustainable? I'd like to believe in sustainability, but it looks more and more like a fool's game. You can't have development and eat it too. 
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Friday, November 9, 2018If Don Calls You Rude, Does it Mean You're Rude? The Acosta-Trump fracas is Washington in a nutshell: bad manners, aggression, throbbing egos, and posturing hotheads. 
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Friday, November 2, 2018Should You Vote for the Clean Bathrooms Party? There are some minor parties in the election that don't deserve to be ignored like the fat kid in gym class. These are the true believers in democracy.
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Friday, October 19, 2018How to Collect on a Bet Against Trump President Trump does pay off some bets. But being such a great man, he feels that he's obligated only to pay off on those that demonstrate his greatness. ![Image taken from page 423 of '[A History of England for the Young.]', From FlickrPhotos](https://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2018/09/2018-09-70183-349-Images-populum_uploadnic_FlickrPhotos_349_70183_farm6_static_flickr_com_11095389035_fcc73e083b_413.gif "Image taken from page 423 of '[A History of England for the Young.]', From FlickrPhotos")
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Wednesday, September 26, 2018What if Obama Was a CIA Agent? Perhaps the distortion of history is the CIA's greatest crime. How can we know what has really happened in American history post-WWII? 
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Saturday, September 8, 2018The "Anonymous" Op-Ed is the New Chaos When in history - any time, any place - has a top aide published an article like the "Anonymous" op-ed in the Times this week? As a sign of the times, it dwarfs Trump's antics. 
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Tuesday, September 4, 2018Don't You Just Love Trump Endgame Scenarios? Scenarios left, scenarios right. There's nothing like a good end-of-Trump read to ease the pain. 
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Thursday, August 16, 2018I've Been Censored Too! The censorship movement against the tellers of truth just came home to me. Here's the sad, sad story. 
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Tuesday, July 31, 2018Whaddaya Mean, "There's no There There"? What can one say about this hunt for "there"? Aren't we there yet? And once we get there, will we know where we are? After all, there can't be theres just anywhere. I for one find this issue very distressing.
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Wednesday, July 18, 2018When Reporters Call a President "Traitor," That's News Mainstream reporters speculating that Trump had been "bought" by Putin? That used to be Alex Jones's style, but maybe he's turned into a role model. 
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Tuesday, June 26, 2018The History in an Amazon Box To receive an Amazon package is to play your part in history. It is the story of our time. 
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Tuesday, June 12, 2018MLK, RFK, JFK, or Why We Need Conspiracy Theorists What would history be without conspiracy theorists? These three men must certainly be grateful to them. 
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Friday, May 18, 2018What Trump and Obama Learned, and Hillary Knew This just goes to show this ain't a democ', But more a volcano at which we but gawk. 
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Sunday, May 6, 2018Mueller and Trump and the Hypnosis of Story The Mueller investigation goes on and on and on -- yet we're still hooked on it like kids at story time. Why? 
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Thursday, April 19, 2018Nuclear War Avoided! NBA Playoffs Begin! It was nice to see nuclear war avoided so that we could all get on with our day. 
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Friday, March 30, 2018War with Iran Means Your Flight to JFK Gets Diverted to Boca War with Iran means that the draft is reinstated, your lights get turned out, your phone bill is wacky, and air transport stops after the first few incidents. War against a modern society is easy. 
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Wednesday, March 14, 2018Does the News Have a Future? Probably not, but this is going to be a lot more fun for those of us who know nothing about journalism. 
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Sunday, February 25, 2018America in the World: Less a King than Odd-Man-Out At the Munich Security Conference 2018, America's lead speaker, General McMaster, sounded not so much like a diplomat as a football coach giving his team a halftime pep talk. 
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Saturday, February 3, 2018Trump Remakes America in his Image Meanwhile America gets greater and greater/As we spring out of our cultural crater/And politics reaches a John Adams level/ Renewing democracy in which we revel. 
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Tuesday, January 23, 2018Facebook's "Counterspeech" Campaign Hammered my Website Facebook's "counterspeech" program to censor websites has cut my weekly readership from 5 to 3: 40 percent! 
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Thursday, January 11, 2018Roosevelt for President, not Oprah The last type of person we need in the White House is another billionaire TV star. 
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Tuesday, December 26, 2017What if North Korea Turns off the Lights in America? What if North Korea has some power lines knocked out, water works shut down, and more forest fires started? Easy to do, and plenty of bang for the buck. The playing field of war just got more level. 
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Saturday, December 9, 2017Let's Hear it for a New Cold War People who moan about the new Cold War ought to remember the last one. It was great! 
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Friday, November 17, 2017My Life as an Influencer It's tough to be a top influencer, balancing trends and tweets, pols and plugs. Read all about it. Sympathize with me. Follow me. Live with me. Be me. 
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Thursday, November 9, 2017Afghanistan: Buying Peace by the Pound War has proven ineffective against Afghanis. We should have simply bought the country. 
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Saturday, October 21, 2017Catalonia's Declaration of Independence: Not Exactly a Jefferson-Hancock Moment The President of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, declared independence and then suspended it. Don't count on him to pledge "our lives and sacred honor." 
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Wednesday, October 4, 2017No countdown clock means no event A countdown clock is now a necessity for any public event, unless you want to be a wind sock. 
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Saturday, September 16, 2017Catalonia: Independence, man, that'd be like so cool As one who has lived in Spain for 30 years, I can tell you that the independence movement in Catalonia can hardly be taken seriously. 
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Wednesday, September 6, 20179-11 Started the Last Phase of Empire A wide-lens historical perspective on 9-11 in the continuing drama of American empire. 
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Thursday, August 17, 2017Will Saturday Night Live Have Don Trump on Again? SNL had Trump on their show after his racist remarks about Mexicans in 2015. After his remarks about Charlotte, I wonder if they'll have him on again. 
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Saturday, August 5, 2017The Inevitable Ying and Yang of Internet News The line between fake news and the truth is getting thinner as truth-tellers, especially progressive ones, are under attack. 
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Tuesday, July 25, 2017Saudis: From 13 Demands to Six Principles to One Trending Topic Everyone loves a success story, but Crown Prince Salman, who pushed his cousin out of the job, is starting to look as clumsy as Donald Trump. 
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Sunday, July 9, 2017Power's Just Another Word for Nothin' Left to Lose Is a country's power the same as its strength? it seems to me there's a big difference. 
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Friday, June 30, 2017Buy Qatari War Bonds Today! (tomorrow might be too late) If Prince Salman intends to stick to his demands on Qatar, we might well start to live in interesting times. 
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Wednesday, June 14, 2017Trump to me: "Could I take a bad fall?" It didn't happen to Obama or Bush, but it's happening to Trump. But that's what too big a Trumpet will get you. 
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Saturday, June 3, 2017Waiting for the Afghan McNamara Who will step up in ten years and tell the U.S. that in Afghanistan and Iraq, "We were wrong, terribly wrong"? 
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Saturday, May 20, 2017Why does Europe Follow a Trumped-up America? Stranger than the election of Trump is Europe's continued loyalty to America. 
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Sunday, May 7, 2017How I Got my Job at Trump's State Dept. Here's a how-to on how to get a job in the Trump Administration: posts there for the taking! 
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017I've Been Watching How the Ol' Cookie Crumbles That distant crepitation is the rumbling of history. 
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Saturday, April 8, 2017Vlad and Bashar: They Can't Beat the Rap, and They Can't Fight City Hall Some advice to Putin and Assad about countering the fake news: if you can't beat'em, join'em. ![.Alexander the Great on horse. - Bronze of the Roman period (1st century BC) from the original by Lysippos (4th century BC) - Exhibition .Charles of Bourbon [Carlos III] and the diffusion of Antiquities: Naples, Madrid, Mexico. up to March 22, 2017 - Napl, From FlickrPhotos](https://farm1.static.flickr.com/746/32629361234_87ced14191.jpg ".Alexander the Great on horse. - Bronze of the Roman period (1st century BC) from the original by Lysippos (4th century BC) - Exhibition .Charles of Bourbon [Carlos III] and the diffusion of Antiquities: Naples, Madrid, Mexico. up to March 22, 2017 - Napl, From FlickrPhotos")
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Tuesday, March 21, 2017Trump's Quiet Steps Down the Path of Empire The latest phase in the decline of empire: when the military nudges aside the establishment. 
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Sunday, March 12, 2017Wikileaks: Allegations the Way Mom Used to Make 'em Me, I like my allegations with documentary support, but there's nothing written about tastes. 
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Thursday, March 2, 2017Trump: Godzilla with Soupcons of Dracula The Russian peace initiative over, all that's left of Trump is the full Godzilla. 
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017Been Mulling Lindorff on the end of the World... The big Methane Hen is going to get us in the end. Is it time to stop paying your mortgage? 
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017If You Ain't for "Normalcy," You Ain't in the Game "Normalcy" is creeping back into Washington's foreign policy. Too bad. 
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Friday, January 13, 2017A Coup in Slow-Mo The Shakespearean power play against the new administration will be something the world has never seen in America. 
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Wednesday, December 21, 2016Russians, Al Qaeda, Saddam, and back to Russians So we're back to the Russians as bad guys. Is that the best we can do? 
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Thursday, December 8, 2016Propornot: I Get no Respect, no Respect at all! There are 200 websites on Propornot's list of Russia-backed propagandists -- and mine's not there. What kind of deal is that? 
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Thursday, November 24, 2016Why is Everybody Trashing Fake News? The real reason for the fall of the Empire State Building. 
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Sunday, November 13, 2016A sick people sick of themselves Trump's revolution doesn't cover even half of the rage rolling across America. 
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016Obama's legacy: more chaos or more order? Calling all pundits: Which has prospered more under the Obama presidency: chaos or order? 
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Thursday, October 13, 2016Trump brings back the power of the word Trump's big mouth has lost him the election, but he's blazed a trail that a smarter Trump will soon follow. 
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Friday, September 30, 2016Helpless Assad faces the Fates - as we do Assad has no more control over his fate than we do over the neocons. 
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Thursday, September 1, 20169-11 Why the comb-overs who planned it knew they'd get away with it. History will have a good word to say for the 9-11 Truth Movement. 
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Thursday, August 18, 2016The Media giveth, and the Media taketh away The media has finally as one turned on Trump, though it certainly took them long enough. 
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Monday, August 8, 2016That day is almost here The Obama Administration is very soon going to look like the good ol' days. 
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Wednesday, July 27, 2016War just ain't what it used to be After a long easy run, now war is coming home to us. 
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Saturday, July 2, 2016Why do conspiracy theories abound nowadays? When reporters neglect their work, conspiracy theorists step in. The more neglect, the more theories. 
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Monday, June 20, 2016Was the Orlando shooting real? Too many massacres share the same pattern: actors as witnesses, big money, invisible blood, etc. 
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Tuesday, June 14, 2016Hillary the bleeding-heart peacenik Why are most conservatives so hard on Hillary Clinton? 
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Thursday, May 26, 2016Rubes cross Rubicon! Washington calm! The rubes cross their Rubicon and elect Donald Trump. Results delicious. 
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Thursday, May 5, 2016Yowza, yowza: The Rassling Blond v. the Queen of Wall Street Hillary v. The Donald puts a new spin on the phrase, "the lesser of two evils." 
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Friday, April 22, 2016The world is NOT ending, They said so on TV. Worried about the end of the world? Read this. 
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Monday, April 4, 2016Do guns have a future? Guns will cede their place to a much worse general-usage weapon. 
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Monday, March 28, 2016Donald Trump and his Debate Rope-a-Dope Trump will do to Hillary Clinton what Ali did to Foreman. 
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Saturday, March 19, 2016Republicans try to stop the Revolution of the Rubes On the spectacle of Republicans trying to head off the anti-government movement now led by Donald Trump 
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016Is the FBI's problem with Apple for real? Some speculation regarding the FBI's problema with Apple encryption. 
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Friday, March 4, 2016Hillary to bankers: "That just cost you 500 mill." This is how Hillary and Bill made so much money from bankers.
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Sunday, February 28, 2016I wanna be Trump's running mate Nobody can support Don Trump like me.
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Wednesday, February 17, 2016Why are the Russians so aggressive? A satirical comment on Russian-American relations. 
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Saturday, January 30, 2016Why spy on Israeli drones? Seemed like the thing to do... There are lots of top-secret Intel people in America, and like it or not, they all have to eat. 
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Monday, January 18, 2016Obama: the man who gets up as JFK and lies down as Cheney The Jekyll-Hyde nature of Barack Obama is fascinating. 
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Saturday, January 9, 2016Planning to think about trying to work? Not so fast! The 300K jobs created last month ain't all it's cracked up to be. 
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015My Anti- (and I mean Anti!) Washington Campaign A satirical look at the anti-Washington political fervor. 
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Thursday, December 17, 2015Syria explained in 300 words Everything you need to know about Syria in 300 words. 
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Monday, December 7, 2015Two degrees C? Try more like four! Don't listen to scientists on global warming. Listen to Uncle Phil. 
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Friday, November 27, 2015How the Republicans will retake the White House in 2016 The race is shaping up to be decided in the House. 
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Wednesday, November 11, 2015Saturday Night Low with The Donald SNL was a sorry attempt to wash Trump's image. He's still a racist. ![Yellow safety hat [transparent], From FlickrPhotos](https://www.opednews.com/populum/visuals/2015/10/2015-10-70183-300-Images-populum_uploadphotos_s_300_farm8_static_flickr_com_70183_6676098623_a9dcdf3fc4_n_747.gif "Yellow safety hat [transparent], From FlickrPhotos")
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Saturday, October 31, 2015A total unknown throws his hat in the ring A new presidential candidate on the Republican side who has great chances to win - seriously. 
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015Beware the "Final" in Final Reports Whenever I see those words "final report," I find my credulity coming up short. 
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Saturday, October 10, 2015The World is a Traffic Jam Like it or not, we're dependent on government to organize society. 
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Monday, August 17, 2015Israel digs tunnels too Israel has prospered more through brain than brawn. 
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Friday, July 24, 2015Hillary, let me count the ways... Ms. Clinton doesn't offer much for president except her gender. 
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Saturday, June 20, 2015President Donald Trump to Xi and Putin: "You're Fired!" Donald Trump is just the guy to take on America's rivals. 
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Thursday, June 4, 2015Does Anyone Else Miss Muammar Gaddafi? Now that he's gone, Colonel Gaddafi's legacy doesn't look so bad. Overthowing him was a bad mistake, for which the Mediterranean world is paying the consequences.
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Thursday, May 28, 2015Was Osama bin Laden really there? (Part Two) The bin laden documents do more to obscure than to enlighten, more for the legend than the reality. 
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Wednesday, May 20, 2015Was Osama bin Laden really there? The big questions about bin Laden remain unanswered. 
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Saturday, May 16, 2015Do computers have a future? Computers are getting too big for their britches. 
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Sunday, May 10, 2015Three Whistlers, One Tune This is why Assange, Snowden, and Manning rightly deserved a statue in their honor. 
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Sunday, May 3, 2015Drones: Coming soon to a strife near you The future of drones makes for an ever-more unstable world. 
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Sunday, April 26, 2015The Ted Cruz Blues A poetic analysis of Ted Cruz's candidacy for president. 
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Saturday, April 18, 2015Obama does Cuba - Halfway President Obama has done the right thing in Cuba, but has left unfinished business: making amends. 
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Saturday, April 11, 2015Russia and The New Rome A satirical comment on America's dangerous provocation of Russia. 
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Sunday, April 5, 2015The World According to the Anchorman A satirical take on TV network news anchors. 
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Sunday, March 29, 2015What if an agreement favors Iran? A satirical take on a posible U.S.-Iran agreement. 
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Monday, March 23, 2015C.S.I. Ferguson A satirical poem on the difference between TV detective shows and the reality. 
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Monday, March 16, 2015Venezuela's threat to my sweet land of liberty A skeptical take on President Obama's declaration that Venezuela is now a "national security threat." 
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Sunday, March 8, 2015The world consists of bumpkins and hicks A satirical take on bumpkins in the globalized world. 
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Saturday, February 28, 2015Exceptional, and proud of it A satirical take on American "Exceptionalism." 
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Friday, February 20, 2015"Now that we're shooting, is it okay?" A satirical comment on the upcoming vote in Congress to authorize the president to go to war against ISIL. 
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Saturday, February 14, 2015Amidst all this security, why do I feel so insecure? It's funny how all this security isn't making me feel more secure.
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Sunday, February 8, 2015I've always felt sorry for Vladimir Putin A satirical comment on Vladimir Putin and his trouble with the West.
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Saturday, January 31, 2015How America went to the Ukraine A satirical take on America's dangerous entry into the Ukraine.
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Saturday, January 24, 2015On FBI Entrapment: The Horrible Case of Joe's Bar A funny take on the silly spectacle of the FBI stopping its own terror ops.
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Thursday, January 15, 2015Charlie: Leave Islam alone with its prophet A poetic comment on Charlie Hebdo's bad manners with Islam. 
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Thursday, October 30, 2014Lemonade with sugar, or sugar with lemonade? A reflection on how narrow the American political debate is. 
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Sunday, June 29, 2014Who lost Iraq? The amoral 'Who lost Iraq?' is a less important question than 'Who destroyed Iraq?'.
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014A good old American tug on the fraying fabric of peace A comment on how helpless observers of the international scene are in the face of so many bad American decisions.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014Yet another failure of the U.S. policy elite The Ukraine-Crimea matter is another failure of a foreign-policy elite that can do almost nothing right.
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Saturday, February 8, 2014Is Sochi the "Sarajevo Moment"? An observation of how President Vladimir Putin's dream of the Sochi Olympic Games is going up in smoke, and the dangerous repercussions his anger might have. 
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Thursday, December 19, 2013The year everything got worse On America losing prestige and Obama's expectations turning to dust. Not even Lazarus could come back from this one. 
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Friday, September 20, 2013Toothless policies and toothy publics This is about the growing gap between governing elites and the public, mainly with regard to America, but also Europe.
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Monday, August 26, 2013Syria and sarin: such is politics On the nonsense surrounding the UN investigation into the use of chemical weapons in Syria. 
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013Edward Snowden and the Gentlemen's Trash Talk Fareed Zakaria, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Richard Haas, and Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal all ganged up on Edward Snowden last weekend. i thought these gentlemen of the establishment needed to be answered.
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Saturday, June 8, 2013The Dark Side of Obama's Government This article is about the Faustian bargain that, somewhere along the way, Obama has struck with the military-security complex.
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Monday, April 22, 2013The Terror Next Time What if the Boston bombers were two Pakistani kids whose family had been wiped out by an Obama drone strike? Americans might finally get an idea of the horror they've been responsible for.
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Monday, March 4, 2013Zero Light Thirty (or Twenty, Whatever) A very different take on the raid on Abbottabad, questioning the veracity of the event. The article starts with the observation that in seven months, the CIA neither saw nor heard OBL.
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Monday, December 26, 2011The Touchy-Feely Propaganda of 60 Minutes A reflection on propaganda, American-style. I discuss President Obama's interview on 60 Minutes after the raid on Osama bin Laden's residence in Pakistan.
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Saturday, December 24, 2011The touchy-feely propaganda of 60 Minutes This is a reflection on propaganda, American-style. I talk about the nature of propaganda, comparing how the North Korean anchorwoman tearfully read the death announcement on President Kim Jong Il, and the 60 Minutes interview with President Obama last May, after the raid on Osama bin Laden's house.
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Saturday, September 24, 2011It must be strange to be Israeli This article points out that since the Palestinians will not leave their land, just what does Israel intend to do? There seems to be national denial on this question, and national denial is an odd but global poltical phenomenon. I compare it with the 30 years of deficits in America.
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Thursday, September 8, 2011NATIONAL PATRIOTIC SPLURGE WEEK This is a follow-up article to my earlier one, "9-11 WAS A NATIONAL JOB." In it I recap that guilt for 9-11 extends not just to those who committed the deed but to those who help to cover it up and those who have no stomach for the truth. So there will be no new investigation beyond the books and article on the Internet.
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Thursday, September 1, 20119-11 was a national job This is a wider perspective on 9-11, starting with the widespead belief that the event was not brought about by Al Qaeda but Americans. The responsibility for the event, therefore, extends across the nation, not with a small coterie. |
