The Legacies of Greed and Power-Seeking in Afghanistan and the World

First the US and its allies armed, funded, and trained the Mujahideen against the stable, pro-Soviet, secular government in Afghanistan in the early 1980s. Before the US started meddling in its government, Afghanistan was a country that had been…

**Author’s Note: This book is copyrighted as an “in progress” book. I’ll be completing it, hopefully, sometime in the next few months.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION.. xi

CHAPTER 1: THE EISENHOWER ADMINISTRATION, 1953–60. 1

The Overthrow of Prime Minister Mosaddegh of Iran. 1

Commentary: 1

The Thwarting of Democracy and…

Senator Manchin and His Billionaire Sponsors Have It All Wrong

Democratic, West Virginian Senator Joe Manchin was recently fretting about his dire prediction that passage of his fellow Democrats’ $3.5 Trillion Reconciliation Bill (only he and fellow Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona are blocking it) would result in a “welfare state.” The truth is that “promoting” and “providing for”…

No, Billionaires Should Not Be Allowed to Own Crucial, Medical Science Breakthroughs

I just read an article about Jeff Bezos investing in Altos Labs, a startup that is experimenting with reverse ageing through the reprogramming of stem cells (Ivanova, 2021). This research, as well as many other research projects being…

I recently watched the interview with Hillary Clinton in which she states that the U.S. had to fund to the Mujahedin to help them overthrow the pro-Soviet, Afghan government in the 1980s because we were in a “struggle” with the Soviet Union and because this is what ultimately led to…

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers…

When I was a child, I used to watch Star Trek regularly with my brothers. How can I ever forget the opening lyrics to the show:

Space, the final frontier
These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise
Its five-year mission
To explore strange new worlds
To seek out new life
And new civilizations
To boldly…

How dare Trump speak of Law and Order? Trump has nothing to tell the people about law and order, as he clearly know nothing and cares nothing about it. In fact, the most heinous U.S. crimes of the century have been committed by those in the highest positions of power…