I submit that Trump appears to be suffering from a peculiar variety of Stockholm Syndrome, a psychiatric diagnosis that describes when a captive or abuse victim forms a mindlessly slavish bond of loyalty toward their captor or abuser. In this case, the abusive captor is Israel, which holds Epstein-style kompromat on Trump.
John Carpenter’s classic 1988 movie is a parable of the times we live in today. The fact that it symbolically and prophetically depicts what we are confronted with today only adds weight to what many might otherwise dismiss as “B-grade science fiction”
When humanity… en masse… departs from a conscious relationship with The Divine, it sets in motion a series of events that are designed to… eventually…bring humanity’s attention back to The Divine. From one direction, it would be overpowering love. For those resisting, it would be recurrent trauma.
Former Chief of Staff to U.S. Secretary of State, Colin Powell, Col Lawrence Wilkerson argues that the Trump administration and Pete Hegseth have been lying about U.S. casualties and battle damage sustained by U.S. forces ever sine the way with Iran began
America would need at least another million soldiers to invade and secure Iran. There may be a solution to this manpower shortfall though. Writing in the Jerusalem Post, AJ Jaff suggests, “The average American aged 18 to 34 carries more than $40 thousand” debt. Enlistment in the US armed forces could free them from this burden
Not only does the U.S. lack the capacity to carry on the war with Iran, Trump hasn’t followed-up with more strikes because U.S. regional allies in the gulf informed him that Iran was on the brink launching strikes on their desalination plants, power and oil infrastructure that would have crippled them as viable nation states.
Attack comes on the heels of the U.S. bombing of a girl’s school and a sports complex earlier in the war
Former US Special Forces Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar on how Iran is producing far more missiles than the US is producing interceptors. While an analysis of recent US strikes suggests that they are to prepare the way for US naval operations INTO the Strait of Hormuz
This is how it always starts. You get occasional natural disasters, and in times when order is being restored, these disasters begin to increase so that there is less and less distance between occurrences. At a certain point, they will be going off without respite. Reflections in a Petri Dish explains
The more that Trump does internationally, the more of a joke he becomes around the world. He has become a comic figure – a clown who amuses world leaders who are embracing a new multipolar world which has found a new system of global trade that bypasses the U.S. altogether
Tech and AI giants are reportedly buying up antique books and manuscripts and feeding the pages into high-speed scanners. Once the contents are digitised, the original manuscripts shredded. Giving the AI companies the opportunity to rewrite history. All the more amazing then is the fact that this was foreseen more than fifty years ago in Rollerball, a science fiction film starring James Caan.
Everyone tells you to “live in the moment” but no one tells you how