President Donald Trump told Al Jazeera on Wednesday, August 26th that we are on the brink of “achieving a very great victory” in Iran. But that does not appear to be true. In fact, we have entered a great stalemate. We’ve gone for 28 days without major attacks in the Iran War. We’ve lost
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To understand why we are going crazy, you have to understand a basic principle. Parents love to trash the technologies their kid’s flash. In the 1990s, gory, blood and guts videogames were booming. And adults blamed those games for the violence and crime in society. In 1992 and 1993 there were Senate hearings about
It all started on Sunday of last week, July 26th. Iraqi militias under the control of Iran rained missiles down on critical oil and energy facilities in Saudi Arabia. In 72 hours the Iraqis launched a reported 70 rockets and drones. By Tuesday July 28th, the Saudis had had enough. They joined us in attacking the Iranian-backed mini-armies.
This is a World War III minute. A minute when the wrong move could kick off the sort of domino effect that led to World War I. And this time the war would be nuclear. But this is also a minute when we can’t stop fighting. Why? The war with Iran is a war we must win. There’s a reason.
Tuesday July 14th, the House of Representatives passed a bill to let states choose Daylight Saving Time as a permanent, year-round thing. It’s called the Sunshine Protection Act. The bill passed by an astonishing 308 to 117. Now it has to go to the Senate and then to the president. The president has already let
This is the week that the Iran war is transforming. The conflict appears to be going from an American and Israeli blitzkrieg to a long-term tit for tat. It’s going to a they-hit-us, we-hit-them-back, low level war. And the prize over which America and Iran are fighting is the Strait of Hormuz, the 21 mile
The two biggest issues on the table in our negotiations with Iran are a do or die for the world’s economy—the Strait of Hormuz– and a possible do or die for humankind– Iran’s nuclear program. How are the Iran talks going this week? Lumpy, bumpy and confused. Thursday of last week, June 25th, Iran struck a
It’s time to be careful, very, very careful. And it’s time not to let our domestic politics blind us. As the Iranians and their allies, the Chinese, see it, a new balance of power is taking over the world. And the United States is no longer the dominant superpower. Far from it. In fact, a Hezbollah official, Wafiqu Ṣafā, says that
Wednesday afternoon, June 17th, the president and his administration released a document they had been teasing for close to a week: a 14-point memo of understanding bringing the war with Iran to a close. Is that memo of understanding, that MOU, a victory or a defeat for the United States? Is that MOU a cause for
Donald Trump has now told us for the 38th time that we are on the brink of a peace deal with Iran, a Memorandum of Understanding in which we both agree to turn the Strait of Hormuz back into a free passage zone, in which we agree to stage a next level of negotiation on Iran’s
On International Women’s Day, the world celebrates women whose dedication and vision help make life better for others. One such woman is Lorraine Silvetz, whose work focuses on improving emotional well-being and bringing awareness to the growing issue of stress in modern society. As the founder of the Global Stress Initiative (GSI), Lorraine has devoted
Once upon a time the idea of a genie in Aladdin’s lamp was a fantasy. That genie was conjured in prose sometime before 1704 in the Arabian Nights. But it couldn’t be conjured in reality. Now with the advent of AI, that fantasy is about to come true. Yes, within less than a decade we may well have
In a world that often rewards conformity, Howard Bloom has built a life — and a legacy — on defying it. To call Bloom a publicist would be accurate, but insufficient. To call him an author would be true, but incomplete. To call him a thinker barely scratches the surface. Howard Bloom is an anomaly — a
The Howard Bloom Institute isn’t built for soundbites, hot takes, or intellectual comfort. It exists for people who want to understand why the world behaves the way it does—not just what’s happening on the surface. Founded by Howard Bloom, the Institute operates as a home base for deep thinking about human behavior, evolution, power, belief systems, and the future of
If you’ve spent the last few years binge-watching documentaries about human behavior, doom-scrolling think pieces about why society is unraveling or listening to podcasts that start with “what if everything we know is wrong…” — congratulations. You’re already halfway inside Howard Bloom’s brain. His latest book, The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Wanted to Know About Nature Is
Early Wednesday morning, December 3rd, the AARP, the nation’s leading organization for those over the age of 55, released a report with a radically unexpected revelation. You would think that the loneliest Americans among us would be teenagers who are leaving their families, going off to college, and being forced to build an entirely new
Frankly, I was horrified by the coverage of Israel’s retaliatory strikes on October 29th. Horrified by the headlines claiming, “strikes kill more than 100 in Gaza.” And horrified by the mainstream media’s coverage of this entire Gaza war. The mainstream media has been hijacked by Hamas. Hijacked by Muslim movements that want to see Israel exterminated
This is not the same world it was on January 20, 2025. Things we are accustomed to are being yanked away. And things we were taught to believe are true are now being called false. Plus some of the things we’re being told are not true at all. The trend in governance is turning upside down. For 90 years,
In September, when Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine, sat down for nearly an hour in a private session with Donald Trump at the UN General Assembly, Zelensky asked for American Tomahawk missiles. Then, two days ago, on October 6th, Trump told reporters that before making a decision he wanted to clarify exactly how the
We may be closer to World War Three than we have been in 42 years. World wars happen when giant alliances face off against each other, with each nation pledged to come to the defense of the other. World War I happened when there were two giant alliances facing off against each other. Those alliances had