The Rising Danger of the Global Submarine Nuclear Arms Race. Right now, beneath the world’s oceans, approximately 30 nuclear-armed submarines patrol silently, virtually undetectable. These submarines represent humanity’s deadliest doomsday machines: stealthy, always on alert, and capable of launching thousands of nuclear warheads at a moment’s notice. At any given time, …
Read More »Google Is Helping the Trump Administration Deploy AI Along the Mexican Border
Google is part of a Customs and Border Protection plan to use machine learning for surveillance, documents reviewed by The Intercept reveal. Five years after Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian assured employees that the company was “not working on any projects associated with immigration enforcement at the southern border,” federal contract documents reviewed …
Read More »The World Is Experiencing Big Changes But Remains Far Away from Big Solutions
A lot has happened in the first three months of 2025. For many leading countries this short period would be recorded in history as a time of big changes. Although the origin of many big changes may be traced to the USA, other leading countries were impacted in a big …
Read More »NATO Without America
How Europe Can Run an Alliance Designed for U.S. Control During its 76-year history, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has faced its share of crises, but none have been as grave as what it confronts today. Since returning to office, U.S. President Donald Trump has questioned the two core principles …
Read More »No One Wins When Nuclear-Armed States Believe That ‘We Can’t Lose’
Any conflict risks going nuclear if one of the belligerent parties choses to use their ultimate weapon rather than accept the possibility of defeat. Nations engaged in wars with conventional weapons are not likely to hold back from using their most powerful weapons if they believe they are losing the …
Read More »US Foreign Policy Was Never About Promoting Democracy
U.S. President Donald Trump may, or may not, have been joking when he promised to be dictator for a day or when he called himself “the king” or when he asserted that he is above the law or even when he has teased about seeking a third term. But in his first weeks in the White House, a contest …
Read More »What Comes After Globalization?
The world as we know it is a product of globalization . And this era of globalization might be coming to a close. Donald Trump is back in power, and, to put it mildly, he’s no fan of globalization. The president has publicly “rejected globalism and embraced patriotism” and said that …
Read More »A Jeremiad for the Working People of the United States
The prevailing issue that demands consensus is the economic exploitation and deprivation of our economic model for working people of all demographics. The oligarchs are laughing. The corporatists are laughing. They are laughing at working people as the big con continues. They are laughing at the corporate Democratic Party whose …
Read More »Appeal on Sovereign Countries: Worldwide Exit from Western-Imposed Institutions – The UN System, European Union, NATO
We are being attacked from all sides. Everybody knows it. The primary goal of the Deep State – whoever it is — is to massively reduce world population; from currently about eight billion to less than a billion. Back in the 18th century, maybe earlier, one of the world’s foremost bankers, …
Read More »Why the Rest of the World Should Boycott Trump’s America
Trump is effectively boycotting the world by withdrawing from international institutions and violating international norms. The world should return the favor. The Trump administration objected so strenuously to a recent speech by South Africa’s ambassador that it expelled him from the United States. What did Ebrahim Rasool say that was so objectionable? …
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