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By Howard Bloom Here’s what the media is not telling you about the new Israel-Hamas peace deal.   On Sunday, January 19th the new cease-fire will hopefully go into effect.  The  media is euphoric.  A hostage deal, they say, has been reached between Israel and Hamas after 467 days of fighting and 459 days of negotiating.  Peace is on the

By Howard Bloom CNN says The Washington Post just laid off 100 people.   In reality, it’s worse than that.  The Post has signed 240 people to voluntary separation agreements. It has gotten rid of a whopping 10% of its entire staff.  And those on the left fear that freedom of the press and free speech are at

By Howard Bloom How you feel about America’s hopes for 2025 depends on the party you belong to.  That’s the bottom line of four polls on Americans’ expectations for the coming year, polls from Gallup, Reuters, AP-NORC, and CBS News.   In reality, these polls are a referendum on the upcoming Trump administration.  Republicans’ expectations are sunny.  Democrats’ expectations

Sunday December 8th the world was hit with a massive surprise.  The government of Syria had fallen.  Syria’s dictator for life, Bashar al-Assad, had fled to Moscow.  In a mere eleven days, rebels had swept through the cities of Aleppo and Hama and had taken Syria’s capital, Damascus.  Syria had been in the hands of dictators from

By Howard Bloom Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election.  In a landslide.  How did he do it?  And what will it mean to the country?  First, how did President-elect Trump pull off this triumph? He used three levers.  Lever number one is publicity.  Trump began to seek publicity 50 years ago. His mentor, the mastermind of

By Howard Bloom  The headlines say that as of October 30th’s polls, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are running neck and neck.  But is that true?   In FiveThirtyEight’s Recent Polling Average Update, which pulls together roughly a hundred national and state polls, Harris leads Trump, even though her edge is a slender 1.8%. In the Cook Political

By Howard Bloom This is the most abnormal election of your lifetime and mine.  At this moment, a mere eleven days before we go to the polls, Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are running neck and neck.  A Wall Street Journal poll issued Wednesday night, October 23, says Trump is leading by two percent.  In England,

By Howard Bloom  Iran has mounted the biggest ballistic missile attack in history.   It claims it launched 200 ballistic missiles at Israel Tuesday night, October 1st.  181 appeared in the night skies over Israel.  They were shot out of the heavens by Israel’s Arrow3 missiles, a part of Israel’s remarkable air defense system, the Iron Dome.  There

By Howard Bloom Joe Biden’s nightmare of a wider war in the Middle East is coming to pass.  But the war is not widening because of Israel.  It is widening because of Iran.  On October 7th, 2024, Hamas broke a cease-fire deal and started the Gaza war with the rape, torture, and slaughter of 1,200 Israeli civilians.

                                                                         By Howard Bloom Tuesday the world was shocked by one of the strangest war stories of the century.   Between 2,800 and 4,000 pagers went off in the hands or pockets of Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon as the fighters went about their daily lives.  Yes, pagers, old fashioned pagers, exploded. In fact, pagers blew up from