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Methanol-Tainted Liquor and Xylazine-Tainted Fentanyl Illustrate the Same Prohibitionist Peril: While the Lethal Effects of Iran's Booze Ban Are Widely Recognized, Politicians Ignore Similar Consequences From US Drug Laws Jul. 24, 2023
When the celebrated Iranian artist Khosrow Hassanzadeh died of methanol poisoning this month, everyo... Read More
Methanol-Tainted Liquor and Xylazine-Tainted Fentanyl Illustrate the Same Prohibitionist Peril: While the Lethal Effects of Iran's Booze Ban Are Widely Recognized, Politicians Ignore Similar Consequences From US Drug Laws Jul. 19, 2023
When the celebrated Iranian artist Khosrow Hassanzadeh died of methanol poisoning this month, everyo... Read More
Jimmy Carter's Legacy Feb. 24, 2023
In 2015, at the age of 90, former president Jimmy Carter released a statement saying that he had met... Read More
'Holy Spider': Death on Wheels Oct. 28, 2022
These are difficult times for the mad mullahs of Tehran. There they were last month, quietly going a... Read More
Trump Isn't Dangerous; This Administration Is Oct. 13, 2022
Ever since Donald Trump descended the escalator in 2015 to announce his run for the presidency, ever... Read More
Protests in Iran: The Silence of the 'Feminists' and 'Progressives' Oct. 13, 2022
Where are the American feminists and "progressives" when we need them? You know, the men-versus-wome... Read More
Reckless Disinterest: Iranians Get Oppressed as Their Regime Gets Coddled Oct. 11, 2022
Nineteenth-century French politician Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin is remembered for only one thing... Read More
Iran's Latest Rebellion, In Context Sep. 28, 2022
On Sept. 13, Iranian Islamic dictatorship "morality police" in Tehran arrested a 22-year-old Iranian... Read More
What the Media Could Learn From Oriana Fallaci Sep. 23, 2022
A few weeks after Iran's "president," Ebrahim Raisi, promised stricter enforcement of his nation's m... Read More
Putin's Dirty War, Geopolitical Adjustments and Prospects for Future Wars, Part IV Aug. 27, 2022
U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS If we think of the 1970s U.S.-China rapprochement as a video, it began to play ... Read More
Rushdie Stabbing Reminds Us That Iran Is Still the World's Leading Terror State Aug. 19, 2022
Last week, a man stormed the stage at the Chautauqua Institution and stabbed British author Salman R... Read More
Salman Rushdie, Iran and Joe Biden Aug. 17, 2022
In October 2018, agents of the Saudi Arabian government murdered columnist and Muslim Brotherhood fe... Read More
Saudi Arabia Is a Bulwark Against Iran. So, Who's the Bulwark Against Saudi Arabia? Jul. 15, 2022
The Washington Post recently published an op-ed purportedly written by President Joe Biden that trie... Read More
Reviving The Iran Deal Is More Than Another Display of Chronic Biden Ineptitude and Weakness Mar. 23, 2022
Even when the issues are terrorism and the threat of nuclear war (in the Middle East and Europe), el... Read More
The Strategic Costs of Hunter Biden's Ukrainian Corruption Feb. 16, 2022
Often a bribe is more destructive than a bullet. In Afghanistan the U.S. and NATO could never defea... Read More
Putin, Ukraine and The RUBK: Old News Is Current Bad News Jan. 19, 2022
Fail to study the past (history), from energizing grand aspirations to how-it's-done tactics, and yo... Read More
2022's Four Strategic Challenges Jan. 05, 2022
As 2022 begins, four strategic challenges to the post-World War II international order generate the ... Read More
What Will the Taliban Do? It's up to Us Aug. 27, 2021
How will the Taliban govern Afghanistan? It may be up to us. The U.S. is out, but what the Biden adm... Read More
The At-Sea Cyberhack Hijack Is Now a Real Threat Aug. 13, 2021
On Aug. 9, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken promised to punish Iran for attacking an oil tanke... Read More
A Tonkin Gulf Incident in the Gulf of Oman? Aug. 06, 2021
A week ago, the MT Mercer Street, a Japanese-owned tanker managed by a U.K.-based company owned by I... Read More
