You probably haven’t heard of the Umayyad Caliphate, which in itself is a testimony to the effectiveness of its defeat. But there was a time when the Islamic Umayyad armies had taken over a huge swath of the ancient world, reaching from India all the way to the Iberian Peninsula. That’s where Spain is. In […]
Continue reading →As if you hadn’t noticed, gas prices are plummeting. You may have wondered why this is the case. There is really one main reason, and it is shaking things up for OPEC. The US is producing far more oil than it ever has before: Opec nations are producing about 200,000 bpd more than their agreed […]
Continue reading →According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), China has just overtaken the US as the world’s largest economy. Of course, this is not in terms of overall GDP, yet. It’s in terms of purchasing power. As an article in Forbes explains: The simple logic is that prices aren’t the same in each country: A shirt […]
Continue reading →I don’t know that there has ever been a Vice President in the history of the United States that loved putting his foot in his mouth like Joe Biden. The guy has roundly surpassed clown status for his habit of saying things one day and apologizing for them the next. His most recent bout of […]
Continue reading →In an interview with Abby Martin on Breaking the Set, former Senator Ron Paul explained the rationale for what he calls our “bellicose” policy in the Middle East, and explains that the military-industrial complex is the only clear winner: Abby Martin: . . . You were put in the middle of this, where you have […]
Continue reading →We’ve found the reason why Obama is able to plead ignorance of what’s going on in the world: he has missed over half of his intelligence briefings in his almost two terms as President: A new Government Accountability Institute (GAI)report reveals that President Barack Obama has attended only 42.1% of his daily intelligence briefings (known officially as the […]
Continue reading →We just began bombing Syria on Monday. We’ve come to loggerheads with Putin’s Russia. We’re back in Iraq (though “no boots on the ground” still holds some dubious sway in Obama’s Middle East foreign policy). And it doesn’t seem like we ever really left Afghanistan, despite all the rhetoric about it. And yet, in the […]
Continue reading →At a recent dinner “In Defense of Christians” targeted at Middle Eastern Christians, Ted Cruz was literally booed off the stage when he started making comments in support of Israel. It seems that Middle Eastern Christians are less willing than Americans to endorse the Judeo-Christian alliance. There are many reasons for this, and almost none […]
Continue reading →Iraq is the problem that won’t go away. We’ve had a military presence there for nearly a quarter of a century and it doesn’t look like we’ll be leaving Iraq alone for quite some time. Obama just authorized bombings there in order to try to stem the tide of ISIS, which has been brutalizing Christians […]
Continue reading →The mainstream media has tried everything to ignore the obvious: the Israel-Palestine conflict is religious more than it is political. At least one commentator has been willing to point this out: Please tell me—in light of these passages [from the Old Testament and the Quran/Hadith] written centuries and millennia before the creation of Israel or […]
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