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Klitgaard’s Formula: C = M + D - A (Corruption Equals Monopoly Plus Discretion Minus Accountability)
Looking At A Slice Of California Through That Lens Ralph Vartabedian could have just as easily written “How Texas Became a New Center of...

Howie Klein
Aug 30, 20247 min read


Several Countries Are Interferring With U.S. Elections— As Always Israel Gets A Pass From The Media
If National Security rings your bell, one of the best ways to start the day is by reading Fordham University’s Center on National...

Howie Klein
Jul 30, 20243 min read


Dark Money Also Means Foreign Money Seeping Into American Political Campaigns— Are Guilty As Hell
It’s bad enough that the Supreme Court basically shredded campaign finance regulations and that it’s almost a free-for-all, especially...

Howie Klein
Jun 6, 20243 min read


Is Biden Starting A Trumpian Trade War With China Over Affordable Electric Vehicles?
Excuses For Tariffs Abound But Tariffs Are Never A Good Idea I saw my first Rivian yesterday, a spiffy R-1-T pickup truck. I haven’t been...

Howie Klein
May 28, 20248 min read


Would Taiwan Be Safe If Trump Were President And Xi Made His Inevitable Move Towards Reunification?
Japan took control of Taiwan (Formosa then) in 1895, after 2 centuries of Chinese rule. China took it back in 1945, following the...

Howie Klein
May 28, 20245 min read


Who Will Be First To Build A Church On The Moon? And A 711 And Motel 6?
I recently booked airline tickets for an overseas trip and noticed that my passport expiration date was 2037, which seems, for an old guy...

Howie Klein
May 20, 20246 min read


Donald Trump— Serious National Security Threat— Should Not Be Getting Any Serious Intel Briefings
Yesterday, Trump was in MAGAt judge Aileen Cannon very friendly Fort Pierce courtroom to watch his attorneys argue for the dismissal of...

Howie Klein
Mar 15, 20247 min read


Elon Musk's Financial Interests Are Antithetical To Ours... & He's Become A National Security Threat
Thanks to U.S. government subsidies— and a tax system that favors billionaires— Elon Musk is the richest man in the world. Some say he’s...

Howie Klein
Feb 26, 20246 min read


The US Isn't The Only Country On The Brink Of Default--Although It's The Only One Doing It To Itself
The Others Are Being Pushed Over The Fiscal Cliff By China Yesterday, Jeff Stein and Rachel Siegel reported that the world is watching in...

Howie Klein
May 20, 20236 min read


Has The Republican Party Reverted To Isolationism & Xenophobia As The Basis For Its Foreign Policy?
I don’t think most Americans under the retirement age knew anything about Charles Lindbergh before Phil Roth’s alternative history novel,...

Howie Klein
Mar 29, 202310 min read


Bannon Ally With More Aliases Than George Santos Arrested By FBI In Billion Dollar Scam Case
Thousands Of MAGAts Were Cheated-- Why Should Anyone Care? If the government rounded up every billionaire in America, shot them and...

Howie Klein
Mar 15, 20232 min read


Midnight Meme Of The Day! A Useless Bag Of Hot Gas Named Trump!
by Noah Admit it, you knew the above is exactly what that Chinese spy balloon looked like up close! Well, at least if I was the Chinese...

Noah
Feb 6, 20231 min read


Who Could Possibly Want War With China? No One Remotely Sane
You may be too young to remember, but Curtis LeMay haunted the lives of kids growing up in the early 1960’s. He was an extreme right-wing...

Howie Klein
Jan 29, 20235 min read


Last Week's Biggest News That Didn't Make The Headlines
Remember How Trump Started A Trade War With China? Biden's Going To Finish It Let me see if I got this right— Biden told American...

Howie Klein
Oct 16, 20224 min read


Republicans Seem To Want To Let Chinese Spy Li "Cindy" Yang Off The Hook...That's Worth Looking Into
NeoCon former Wall Street Journal editor-in-chief Gerard Baker describes himself as a “right-wing curmudgeon,” one of the few statements...

Howie Klein
Sep 28, 20225 min read


U.S. Pushing Japan Towards Militarization-- Don't We Ever Learn?
Last week, Bloomberg reported that Japan is set to become one of the world’s biggest military spenders. Pushed by the U.S., the Japanese...

Howie Klein
Sep 1, 20224 min read


Who Lives? Who dies?
The following is excerpted from a recent interview with Peter Talbot, my father-in-law and a survivor from the Weixian Japanese...

Nigel Best
Aug 5, 20227 min read


How Will American Oligarchs Keep Control? There Aren’t Many Choices
People forget that at the end of the Roman Republic, the Republic did end.

Thomas Neuburger
Jun 7, 20224 min read


Is COVID Finally Catching Up With China?
China's being surrounded. COVID cases are all around them. The country with the most daily new cases in the world is South Korea...

Howie Klein
Mar 14, 20225 min read


A New New World Order?
As much as the general public knows anything at all about Francis Fukuyama, it's probably for his role (now firmly repudiated) in the...

Howie Klein
Mar 13, 20226 min read
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