In the early morning of Wednesday, March 22nd, China’s dictator for life Xi Jinping left Moscow after three days of meetings with Vladimir Putin. The get-together was calculated to be a move in the step-by-step process of replacing America as the leader of the global order. Replacing America with, you guessed it, China. And with
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By Howard Bloom Early in the morning of Tuesday, March 14th, two Russian Su-27 jets harassed a $32 million American MQ-9 Reaper surveillance drone that was gathering information on the nearby Ukraine War from the air above the international waters of the Black Sea 75 miles from Russian-held Crimea. The two Russian jets reportedly toyed
Twenty years ago in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, four children–Latavia Washington McGee, Shaeed Woodard, Zindell Brown, and Eric Williams–were inseparable friends. According to Zindell Brown’s sister, they stuck together “like glue.” Latavia is now 33 and the mother of six children. When she decided to get her figure in shape with a three to five
By Howard Bloom March 1st, the House Foreign Affairs Committee voted on H.R. 1153, a bill to give the president “the power to ban…. TikTok.” And not just to ban TikTok. Giving the president the power to ban any app from “a foreign entity that is ‘subject to the influence of China’.” This is just one
By Howard Bloom February 24th marks a year since the troops of Vladimir Putin first invaded the Ukraine. And new developments are emerging rapidly. The war in Ukraine is becoming a piece in a new great game. A chess piece in a new faceoff between the great powers. On Wednesday February 22nd, China’s top diplomat Wang Yi[i] visited
By Howard Bloom On February 6th, a constitutional amendment was introduced in the California Legislature by Assembly Member Isaac Bryan. Bryan’s amendment would give voting rights to people in prison on felony convictions. Two days later, David Cruz, an ex-felon who spent thirteen years in state prison and then helped organize a non-profit called Initiate
By Howard Bloom Two Iranians in their early twenties have just been sentenced to a longer period of time in jail than a murderer. What in the world could they have done to deserve this punishment? Social networking. On October 26th, the two Iranians, Astiyazh Haghighi and her fiancée, Amir Mohammad Ahmadi, posted a video of
Facebook Says Trump Can Come Back. By Howard Bloom On January 25th, Meta’s president of global affairs, Nick Clegg, announced that Donald Trump will be reinstated on Facebook and Instagram. Clegg is not just any old corporate executive. He is the former deputy prime minister of England. Trump’s account was suspended for two years on January
In December, Russia’s defense minister announced the permanent expansion of the Russian army to 1.5 million soldiers. That’s 100,000 more than the American army. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s deputy military intelligence chief predicted that Russia will soon draft 500,000 new soldiers, and will ultimately shoot for a two-million-man army. And the Russian independent press source Volya Media
By Howard Bloom On January 3rd, a new study on teens and social media hit the headlines in places like StudyFinds.org and the New York Times. The headline in StudyFinds was scary: it warned of a “social disaster.” And it explained that “Children who frequently check social media face significant brain changes.” But the headline was wrong.
By Howard Bloom The Russian Defense Ministry announced on December 14th that “Russia’s Yars intercontinental ballistic missile has been loaded into a silo at the Kozelsk missile formation in the Kaluga Region in central Russia,” southwest of Moscow. With a 7,500 mile range, the Yars rocket is able to hit the United States. The Yars carries
A nation that looks up goes up. A nation that looks down goes down. The first SpaceX Starship orbital launch seems to be on pause. Why is this crucial to your future and mine? A Time Magazine article explaining that the Starship will outclass the Artemis Moon Rocket concludes that the “first uncrewed launch of
Early in the morning of November 7th, Vladimir Putin chaired an online meeting of his Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights and made some disturbing statements about nuclear weapons. But before we get into Putin’s latest nuclear end-of-the-world scenario, it’s important to understand what Putin’s Council for the Development of Civil
October has been a month of marshalling alliances. And in the ally gathering game, Joe Biden and NATO have come out on top. With the exception of one important Putin victory. There was a vote in the general assembly of the United Nations on October 12th to condemn Russian annexation of Ukrainian territories. The West won
By Howard Bloom On Tuesday, September 13, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, came out of a subway station in central Tehran, walked through a park, and in that park was arrested by Iran’s Moral Security Police. The morality policemen bundled her into their standard white and green Morality Patrol van. And, according to Amini’s
First, let me give you the hidden bottom line of this story. If you are a man or a boy, nature has cut your lifespan off at the knees. Now for the news. On August 31st, the CDC dropped some startling statistics about your probable lifespan and mine. Life expectancy in America has gone down a shocking three years