I’m back in the United States after 24 years of living in Asia and Europe, and already, there’s been no shortage of political drama. When I left, 9/11 had not happened, there was no Iraq War 2, no Afghanistan War, no Hurricaine Katrina, no First Black President, no Trump. Back in those days, when […]
Most likely we are in World War 3 or a major re-ordering of the entire global world order. The catalyst was the 2008 economic collapse and since then, democracy has been in retreat, major wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine, and now Palestine/Israel have left old alliances fractured, and new unholy alliances forming. From here, […]
The fight between Hamas and Israel may be an age-old, continuing feud over land, religion, and ancient cultural grievances; but for other nations such as China and Russia, this is part of the greater battle of rejecting American-led globalization and American power. But first, a question: How do empires and civilizations fall? There tends to […]
ISRAEL HAS NO GOOD OPTIONS (3 Bad Options): By massively attacking Israel out of Gaza, Hamas has forced Israel to decide between 3 terrible options. Let’s look at each one: OPTION 1: Bomb Gaza into oblivion the way the Russians destroyed Grozny or destroyed Mariupoul, Ukraine. Gaza is a tiny little walled in corner of […]
When did World War II start? Americans usually answer that it started in December of 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked. Europeans say it began in 1939 when the Nazis invaded Poland. But for Asians, the date is July 7th, 1937 when Japan attacked China in the Marco Polo Bridge Incident which started WWII on […]
Last night, I decided to watch a movie I knew absolutely nothing about. I just saw that it had received good reviews. It was called “The Fallout” and boy was I surprised when it turned out to be a drama starring Jenny Ortega about a group of American high school kids dealing with the fallout […]
As we head toward a world that is increasingly dominated by technology, we should expect a rise in people who are atheists. Science, technology, and the “rational” material world will seem far more logical and promising to many than the superstitious realm of religion. However, we should also expect to see a counter-action of people […]
America doesn’t just love socialism for corporations…Heck, for most of my lifetime, America has been having a mad, dirty, XXX-rated, porn-hub posting love affair with Socialism…FOR CORPORATIONS. Corporations and banks can behave recklessly (overspend, underperform, gamble) and go into massive bankruptcy. They become “too big to fail” if they screw up and then they get […]
There have been a number of high-profile teen suicides in the U.S. news lately as well as a couple of different surveys showing that kids are more depressed and suicidal than in previous generations. But this is not just an American phenomenon. Teenagers around the world are facing uniquely stressful situations that other generations have […]
Recently, at our 3WLN event in Switzerland, my wife Jamie and I had the opportunity to interview millennial and Gen Z young people from the Middle Eastern countries of Egypt, Morocco, and Lebanon. This was particularly interesting because all three Islam-dominated countries have large populations of youth (as does the entire Middle East), and one […]