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While the media elevates the release of one Israeli hostage, it’s ignoring a man-made famine killing thousands of Palestinians. In this latest post on iPINIONS Daily, I explain how Netanyahu isn’t just permitting this suffering; he’s engineering it. From starvation to scorched earth, he’s turning Gaza into a graveyard to bury the two-state solution once… Read more.
As fate would have it, Trump just announced a “full and immediate ceasefire” between India and Pakistan. That’s welcome news — but no reassurance that the next crisis won’t be just as sudden… or just as explosive. This post remains essential reading because it explains how we got here, why the ceasefire won’t hold, and… Read more.
On April 17, The Atlantic published a provocative essay by former world chess champion Garry Kasparov titled “The Putinization of America.” Arguably, The Atlantic borrowed the idea for that title from an essay by New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser, published just weeks earlier (on February 20) under the headline “Trump’s Putinization of America.” Kasparov… Read more.
Today, Trump raised the stakes in his trade war with China, slapping tariffs of 145% on its exports to the United States. It didn’t just retaliate; China trolled him with AI-generated videos mocking his strategy. The videos show “co-presidents” Trump and Musk, alongside an army of morbidly obese Americans, working at sweatshop stations, stitching Nike… Read more.
By now, everyone knows China plays the long game. While Westerners obsess over the next election cycle, Chinese leaders map out five-year plans like dynastic lords plotting for generations. But waiting centuries to exact revenge for the Opium Wars by peddling fentanyl across America? That shows the patience of a stone Buddha — and a… Read more.
Trump: Everybody wants to be my friend Suddenly, everyone is kissing ass with MAGA America, thinking it will help them thrive. That explains billionaire Jeff Bezos greenlighting a propaganda biopic on Melania Trump, sports commentator Stephen A. Smith gushing to MAGA’s chief propagandist Sean Hannity about their friendship, and liberal comedian Bill Maher sounding more… Read more.
AIDS in America The CDC reports that 1.2 million people in the United States are living with HIV. Blacks, only 13% of the population, account for 42% of new infections. Whites, 76% of the population, account for 25%. Latinos, 18% of the population, account for 27%. Perhaps that explains why Blacks dominate commercial ads for… Read more.
Kemi Badenoch has become the first black woman to lead a major UK political party but can she reunite the Conservative party? She’s hailed Margaret Thatcher as her inspiration and says she’s flattered by the comparisons to Thatcher. (Good Morning Britain, November 4, 2024) Badenoch channeling Thatcher too literally No doubt, Kemi Badenoch is as… Read more.
Russia calls in North Korean cavalry Russia has been waging a genocidal war in Ukraine for nearly three years. Now it’s bogged down. In fact, Russian troops are so beleaguered that President Putin has reportedly bartered with fellow pariah Kim Jong-un for North Korean reinforcements. Kim offered tens of thousands of his soldiers for the… Read more.
