With his re-election, the former US president begins his administration’s transition to his January 2025 inauguration. Among first announcements as a Commander-in-Chief included the selection of Pete Hegseth to head up the Department of Defense….
Category: 2024
Election Day Thoughts
Once in a while a turn of phrase, a paragraph, a seminal thought, or a zeitgeist moment captures the temper of the times. Here, Semafor, in a memorable paragraph, places the US Election Day in focus and context. Semaforte. Yes, the US and world’s changing all around us…
November 5th, 2024, a Day to Remember
As the US prepares for Election Day, the consequences of the vote are drawing nigh. The election results, however they are reported and certified (certification itself looms in the days following the election), the nation will no longer be the same on November 6th… It is time to ask what is truly on the ballot. […]
Death of Yahya Sinwar in Gaza War — What’s Next?
News reports of the death of the Hamas leader began to leak out yesterday. Today more details are being revealed. One of his last acts, it seems, as Sinwar lay gravely injured by an Israeli tank shell explosion was… to turn toward a hovering drone monitoring him and throw a stick at it…
Is Russia ‘Bluffing’ — or About to Push the World Over a Cliff
So, are the Russians ‘saber-rattling’ or are they prepping to ‘melt’ Kyiv as Mr. Medvedev is threatening? Is Putin planning to push the proverbial button and launch a nuclear war — and face the consequences? Is his bunker prepared?
Russian Disinformation Targets US
Breaking News presented via Google Wrap Up: After the 2016 US election documented a “Great Hack” of data breaches, foreign-campaign disinformation, and online targeting, who can say that today’s headlines of “DOJ Bombshell” are anything but more of the same CyberWar. Online manipulation, cyberattacks, hacking, disinformation wars resound
Nuclear War, A Scenario
Take time out from the daily news cycle and read, listen, or watch as Annie Jacobsen brings her nuclear war story and deep research into a deep, dark world of #NuclearWarPlanners, the #EndofTimes, and the #EndGame
Netanyahu Says No to Biden, Middle East Reacts
‘No’ to a ‘Two-State’ solution is Benjamin Netanyahu’s firm position, expressed in increasingly strong language since he entered Israel’s government. Netanyahu’s refusal this week of a negotiated political settlement is not surprising, nor is US President Biden’s ‘hug’ after decades of support for Israel. A Hug with Reverberations
The US, Israel, War & Consequences
The consequences of the Gaza-Israel 2023 war are shockingly deadly… another Mideast war, on-the-ground, air-to-ground, in the courts of public opinion, and now in an international court. The US in alliance with Israel is being tested as Israel’s war grinds on with horrifying ‘collateral damage’. This must change, the war in Gaza must end
Gaza-Israel, Whence Next
Some, a few, are looking toward solutions to decades of hatred, extremism, and ongoing wars in the Middle East. Today, as 2024 arrives amid bombs, bombardments, and globally reverberating blasts, let’s look at words, pics, on-the-ground realities, and ‘off-ramps’
