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Apocalypse Now and Francis Ford Coppola were rejected by the Pentagon when they asked for production support. A decade later...
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Opening battle sequence.  Religious symbolism.  Chronically terrible screenwriting.  All this and more as Henri invites me onto Fortress on a...
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In 1986, during the filming of Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam War tragedy Gardens of Stone, his eldest child Gian-Carlo died...

There has been a large drop in white recruits in the US armed forces, especially in the US Army. Critics blame demonization of white people, lack of advancement opportunities due to DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) policies, immoral wars over resources, and vaccine mandates.

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator In the immediate aftermath of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israeli soldiers and civilians, the US President Joe Biden, and all the American allies repeated the same mantra on cue: ‘Israel has the right to defend itself’.  Much later, the UN human rights expert pointed out that in […]

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator On October 7, Israel was attacked by Hamas, an armed Palestinian resistance group inside Gaza. The group killed 1,405 people, and kidnapped over 200 in Israel. Hamas was a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, a global terrorist organization which is outlawed in many countries, but not in the US, […]

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator   The President of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has stated “this is not a war; this is genocide” when referring to the Israeli attack on Gaza. Secretary of State Antony Blinken wrote a note to the US State Department staff on October 19.  He was aware of […]

By:Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator   On October 7, Hamas, the group that controls Gaza, launched a rare surprise attack on Israel that led to massive retaliatory airstrikes on Gaza and other punitive measures, including power outages.  Huge casualties and humanitarian disaster This new round of Hamas-Israeli conflict has pushed the Palestinian death toll […]

Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator   On October 12, additional US Air Force aircraft arrived in Europe and in the Middle East, at a time of open warfare between US ally Israel, and the Gaza strip, where 3 million unarmed civilians are being targeted by Israel because of the unprecedented attack on Israeli civilians […]