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By Howard Bloom We are waiting for the other shoe to drop while Iran is lining up its ducks. Hamas’ political leader Ismael Haniyeh was assassinated on July 31st, just over a week ago.  Iran’s Supreme Leader vowed to “avenge his blood” and said that Iran would hit Israel with a “severe punishment.” The head of
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Joe Biden’s Oval Office Speech By Howard Bloom Joe Biden’s Oval Office speech Wednesday, July 24th, was more powerful than those who hate him may realize.  It was powerful for a simple reason: it focused on the importance of four forgotten American virtues: truth, character, decency and democracy.  It was a speech about what Joe Biden
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By Howard Bloom, Founder and Chair, Space Development Steering Committee, Co-founder Asian Space Technology Summit, and Erinn van Wynsberghe, Founder, VanWyn Technologies NASA recently announced the discontinuation of its VIPER lunar rover project, a rover built to prospect the moon for a precious space commodity, water.  NASA cited cost overruns and launch delays. The decision to abandon
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By Howard Bloom There is a sudden movement in the Western World to take smartphones away from kids.   It started in the summer of 2022 when social psychologist Jonathan Haidt at New York University, the father of two adolescents, was writing a book about what he called “the pervasive negative effects of the internet and
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Wendy Stuart will be hosting TriVersity Talk! this Wednesday at 7 PM ET with featured guest Paul Nagle.  TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. With TriVersity Talk!, the goal is to laugh and learn. TriVersity Talk! Is part of TriVersity’s
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By Howard Bloom The current crisis over Joe Biden’s frailty has twisted Democrats like me in knots.   Wednesday morning, July 10, actor George Clooney published an opinion piece in the New York Times calling for Joe Biden to leave the presidential race and make room for a younger candidate. Clooney joined seven other celebrities asking
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By Howard Bloom We are living in a radically different America than the one we lived in last week.   On Monday, July 1st, the Supreme Court rewrote the constitution to say that a president who commits criminal acts while in office may be immune from prosecution.   Meanwhile, for years, the right has said that Joe
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By Howard Bloom The headline in a CNN story that appeared a little after noon on Wednesday, June 26th, was brutal: “Children are dying of starvation in their parents’ arms as famine spreads through Gaza.”   The details were heartbreaking. One nine year old boy, said CNN, is “clearly wasted from severe malnutrition and suffering from
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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Susan Seaforth Hayes, legendary actress, who played Julie on “Days of Our Lives”.  Susan Seaforth Hayes is a highly popular and beloved actress who is, of course, best known for her longstanding portrayal of “Julie Williams” on the hugely successful daytime drama series, “Days of Our Lives”, for
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by  Howard Bloom On Wednesday June 12th something frightening happened.  The Russian Northern Fleet naval group completed “precision missile weapons” drills East of the Florida Keys, within easy nuclear missile distance of the United States.  Then the four ships of mass destruction sailed to Cuba, only 106 miles from the beaches of Florida, anchored at Havana
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Thomas Edison didn’t invent baseball any more than Abner Doubleday did. But his interest in the game might hold the key to unlocking a surprising secret. The Deadball Era was a time when pitchers threw hundreds of innings, home runs were rare, and the game was played spikes up, a time marked by the consolidation
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By Howard Bloom In the wake of Covid, are Americans losing their minds? Sort of. We are going crazy for animal stories.  Why?   It could be because stories of insanity among humans are just too hard for us to take.  In the Associated Press’s list of the 31 oddest stories of the week, fully 16—more than
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A couple of American journalists found themselves in the midst of Merry Ole England for what was to be a holiday amongst the long storied history of the country, a culture associated with good manners, copious amounts of tea and beer, and it’s astounding landmarks including Buckingham Palace, the London Eye, Big Ben, Etc. Here
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Who else but hosts Wendy Stuart and Tym Moss could “spill the tea” on their weekly show “If These Walls Could Talk” live from Pangea Restaurant on the Lower Eastside of NYC, with their unique style of honest, and emotional interviews, sharing the fascinating backstory of celebrities, entertainers, recording artists, writers and artists and bringing their
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