Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)

Why the Deep State always Wins

Readers with a morbid sense of curiosity can visit a web site called NukeMap that allows visitors to witness the devastation caused by nuclear weapons of varying yields on a city of their choosing.1 Herman Kahn, who was an armchair theorist from RAND during the Cold War, insisted that nuclear war was winnable.2 But a few hours with NukeMap will disprove Kahn’s folly and the baleful smiley face that h

Sweeping away Western news media goldfish bowl

 
 
Watching or listening to Western news media is a bit like observing goldfish swimming around in a glass bowl.
Scientists reckon that so short is the memory of these fish that by the time they have swum back across the tank they have forgotten that they were already there only moments before. So, lucky for these little creatures, they think that their miniature environment is a limitless universe.