(Above: Oil Tanker "Front Altair.")
Two oil tankers are currently on fire in the Gulf of Oman, to the east of the Straits of Hormuz at the entrance to the Indian Ocean.
The incidents are variously described as “attacks” or “explosions” and though...
Shinzo Abe is no fool and God knows he went out of his way to stroke Trump and ingratiate himself to him, even going along with being called “Shinzo,” and rhapsodizing about chocolate cake. And Trump led him on,...
Harley Davidson started out as a Trump poster child for “building things in America” a “true American icon.” All that has changed since they announced they’re moving some of their production overseas. Now he’s using emotional blackmail to deride...
It's a shame Gerald Ford died in 2006, because if anybody could empathize with Joe Biden, it would be he. They both succeeded a lunatic Republican rogue president, they both fell on the steps of Air Force One and...
Ukraine used to have nukes. They gave them up having gotten assurances of protection from the West if Russia decided it wanted Ukraine back. Zelensky and others have mentioned this in their calls for a No Fly Zone and...
Here's a good stat to have handy when you run into people wringing their hands, oh woe is me, Afghanistan is a disaster, quelle disaster.
https://twitter.com/MGwin46/status/1429925858928627714
The Afghanistan media narrative is the bodies falling off the planes and jamming into the...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said that “peace with Iran would be the mother of all peace and war with Iran would be the mother of all wars.” This was Trump’s mature response.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1021234525626609666
Unsurprisingly, they’re laughing at him. Washington Post:
Iran’s state-owned...
Kudos to Jerry Brown for being the voice of reason. Dubya should have gotten us out of Afghanistan and likely would have if he had actually listened to the intelligence of the day. But then this was a day...
Theresa May was the first leader to visit Donald Trump when he was elected President but relations have since soured. Soured so much that it is reported that he is refusing to speak with her at all at this...
Ten miles off the coast of Maine lies a 20 acre, treeless Island, named Machias Seal Island. The only people who live on the island are Canadians who operate the lone lighthouse, Canada inherited the island from Great Britain when...
