The Killing of Henry Nowak

“I can’t breathe.”The last words of George Floyd. “I can’t breathe.”The last words of Henry Nowak. Henry Nowak was an 18-year-old Englishman, a student of Polish descent, and was studying for a degree in Accounting and Finance at Southampton University, England. On the evening of December 3,…

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Reflections in a Petri Dish

It appears to me that disturbance-creating and violence-generating rays are being focused on certain segments of the population for specific purposes, which should be self-evident. I am wondering if these rays really are being directed at… or generated on the inside of fast food joints, department stores, cruise ships,…

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The Slipperbeaten German

Smacked upside the head everywhere he goes by his Jewish hausfrau. The German word for “henpecked husband” is Der Pantoffelheld, which literally means “slipper hero.” Such a man is living “under his wife’s slipper.” It apparently derives from the older German idiom unter dem Pantoffel stehen (“to stand under the…

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And the War Goes On

Well, the “almost done deal” apparently isn’t. Is anyone surprised? By now, everything that Trump says is generally taken by most sane people as either a lie or evidence of early-onset dementia (maybe tertiary syphilis). For instance, his statement the other day that gasoline is “low” and “not…

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Bolivia’s Dramatic Shift Toward Israel

Israel finds another South American country to prey on. Bolivia is experiencing its deepest political and economic crisis in four decades, and the responses from Washington and Jerusalem have been striking in their similarity. Since early May 2026, a massive wave of protests led by indigenous communities, miners,…

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The Democrats’ Bottomless Weaponization Fund

Guess who paid rioters for attacking cops. Of all the appalling things President Trump has done recently, from slapping his name on the Kennedy Center, to starting a disastrous war that has accomplished nothing other than drive his approval ratings into the dirt, Republicans have finally drawn…

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Gitmo and Torture Revisited

On the eve of America’s 250th anniversary, we are asked to accept government at its worst. America’s longest current criminal prosecution is in its 15th year, on its fifth judge, and still has no trial date. The defendants are Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four alleged mass…

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Discipline

Another admirable human trait that has gone the way of the Dodo. It certainly disappeared from my life early on—if it was ever there to begin with. If I had to pick the number one thing that has gotten in the way of my goals, I’d say it’s…

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Iran Takes Its Chances With War

The US war with Iran has moved beyond its initial phase to an emerging new one — one in which Iran implicitly stakes its chances on the next phase being war. Most likely this will be in abbreviated episodes of limited war, but possessing nevertheless a potential to widen regionally,…

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Donald Trump Believes Iran Has the Bomb

No, I have not been given access to NSA Sigint, but I have confirmed that the phone call last week between Iranian President Pezeshkian and Pakistani Prime Minister Shariff was over a non-secure line. I am reliably informed that this was done deliberately by the Iranians and Pakistanis…

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