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Gut Feelings Make for Strategic Errors – U.S. Lured Into Battlescape in Gaza, Yemen, and Now Iraq

China and Russia have been remarkably quiet, watching carefully the global tectonic plates shifting around in response to the ‘two wars’ (Ukraine and Israel’s ‘multiwar’). Really it is not surprising; both states can sit back to simply watch Biden and his team persist with their strategic mistakes in Ukraine and in Israel’s multiple wars.

The interlacing of the two wars will, of course, shape the new era. There are substantive risks, but for now they can observe with comfort from afar as a clima...

Self-Reliance, Taoism, and the Warring States

Because the best protection isn’t a 30-room bunker; it’s having 30 people who care about you.

This week’s focus is on self-reliance, a more complex topic than it may seem. Today’s essay was first posted here on Of Two Minds on June 27, 2008, and it has elicited quite a bit of commentary over the years. I’ve edited it slightly for today’s post.

I’m not trying to be difficult, but I can’t help cutting against the grain on topics like surviving the coming bad times when my experience runs counter t...

If You’ve Just Started Paying Attention to US Foreign Policy

If you’re among those who have only just begun paying attention to US foreign policy and western media bias in light of Israel’s destruction of Gaza and Biden’s act of war against Yemen, it’s important to understand that none of the depravity you’re seeing is new. The lies. The insane double standards. The murderousness. The western political/media class always does this.

Every war the US involves itself in is always facilitated by lies promulgated in one voice by the official government in Wash...

Two Big Risks in 2024-20225: an Economic Slowdown and Expanding Hegemonic Conflicts

“When every country turned to protect its own private interest, the world public interest went down the drain, and with it the private interests of all.“  Charles Kindleberger (1910-2003). American economic historian, (in his book “The World Depression 1929-1939”, 1973)

“The world is a dangerous place to live—not because of the people who are evil but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” Albert Einstein (1879-1955). (As quoted in the book by Josep Maria Corredor “Conversations ...

There Is Hope After All

From time to time I receive a message from a reader that he or she has been reading my analyses for years, is convinced that what we have known as Western civilization is in collapse, but wishes to see some hope.  What can we do to resurrect our civilization, integrity, moral behavior, and respect for truth?

My position has been that nothing can be done unless the people are aware of their plight.  My job is to bring awareness.  Nothing can be done until the people seek awareness and become awar...

The Little House Down the Street

Driving through my neighborhood, I am daily reminded that my house is getting old. Neighboring homes are renovated even though they’re already luxurious by most people’s standards, or they’re torn down altogether to make way for an even more imposing home with heavier stone and copper finishes. House by house, all the way down the street, beautiful homes are made finer; and mine still sits in its brown-trimmed Tudor stare.

A few years ago, another home down the street regularly caught my eye. It...

Jews and Antisemitism at Harvard University

Even as the Israel/Gaza conflict has roiled the Middle East and raised fears of a much wider regional war, some of the political reverberations have also been felt across the American academic landscape.

With graphic images of devastated Gaza neighborhoods and dead Palestinian children so widespread on Twitter and other social media outlets, polls have revealed that a majority of younger Americans now favor Hamas and the Palestinians in their ongoing struggle with Israel. This is a shocking reve...

A Philosophical View of Immigration and ‘Open’ Borders

“The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not.”

~ Friedrich August von Hayek

The single idea of ‘immigration’ is one of the most misunderstood subjects argued today. It is downright embarrassing to witness and listen to all the whining, bawling, complaining, preaching, blaming, political maneuvering, and stupidity, that consumes the so-called ‘immigration’ problem. Real immigration is not an...

Congress Asleep as Biden Makes War on Yemen

Late last week President Biden started a new US war on the tiny country of Yemen. US warships and fighter jets launched more than a hundred missiles at the country in a massive escalation that the Administration bizarrely claimed would “de-escalate” tensions in the Red Sea.

Taking the US to war without a Congressional declaration of war is a grave crime against the Constitution. Not only did Biden show no interest in coming to Congress for a war declaration, he didn’t even ask for authorization....

More Lunatic Legal Coverage

Reporters keep plunging to bizarre new lows in coverage of Donald Trump. The new jam: his lawyer argued presidents can assassinate rivals. Except he didn’t, at all.

Trump’s “election interference” criminal case is on hold, pending an appeal heard by a trio of judges this week. Citing a traditional interpretation of Article II of the Constitution, the former president is asserting he must be impeached and convicted in the Senate before he can be criminally tried for any official act.

MSNBC, in an...