Get Your Geopolitical Fix at Route 66

On By TRF

Here are my 66 articles about geopolitics (to include Islam/the Middle East, terrorism/counter-terrorism, foreign and military affairs) published at The Stream in the last few years (out of 153 total). Yes, I use cultural references, some tongue-in-cheek–but embedded in solid analysis of each topic.

  1. “Must Our Leaders Always Lie about Islamic Terrorism,” 1.7.25
  2. “Syria: How Did It Come to This?,” 12.12.24
  3. “The Past, Present and Future Dangers of the Islamic Belief in the Mahdi,” 10.22.24
  4. “The Three Religious Reasons Iranian Leadership Hates Israel,” 10.7.24
  5. “Wars and Rumors of Wars,” 8.22.24
  6. “Whose Turban is in Iran’s Ring, Post-Raisi?,” 5.24.24
  7. “What Has Been Accomplished So Far in Space Force’s Five-Year Mission?,” 4.30.24
  8. “America’s Military: The Spirit is Willing, but is the Flesh Too Weak…,” 4.23.24
  9. “Make No Mistake: Israel is the Good Guy in the New Fight with Iran,” 4.14.24
  10. “A Jihadist by Any Other Name is Still a Killer,” 4.1.24
  11. “Murder Most Foul–But How Strange and Unnatural?” [on assassinations as policy], 2.18.24
  12. “Who Really Wants Forever War in Ukraine…?,” 2.13.24
  13. “What Game is Iran Playing?,” 1.22.24
  14. “Seeing No Ecclesiastical Evil in Ukraine,” 11.2.23
  15. “Israel’s Near and Far Enemies,” 11.17.23
  16. “A Jihad on the Term ‘Islamism,'” 11.23.23
  17. “Hamas, Iran’s Bloodthirsty Sock Puppet,” 10.9.23
  18. “What Osama Wrought, 22 Years On,” 9.11.23
  19. “Biden’s National Intelligence Strategy: Using Power to Shape Truth,” 8.16.23
  20. “A Hungry Leviathan: Do We Really Want a More Poweful United Nations?,” 6.13.23
  21. “The New Cold War: How to be In It to Win It,” 5.18.23
  22. “Twenty Years after Invading Iraq–the Blind Still Lead in Washington,” 3.20.23
  23. “Is Iran Bound by an Apocalypse Vow?,” 3.7.23
  24. “Is ‘Ill News Always an Ill Guest?‘” [on Putin], 2.28.23
  25. “Ukraine: Our Elites are Gaslighting Us to the Brink of Nuclear War,” 2.13.23
  26. “Spy or Trial Balloons? China Draws on History to Test the West,” 2.6.23
  27. “Ukraine: Fault Line or Potential Nuclear Conflict?,” 2.1.23
  28. “A Tale of Two National Security Strategies” [Trump v. Biden], 11.2.22
  29. “‘Talkin’ World War II Blues’–Then and Now” [Ukraine v. Cuban Missile Crisis], 10.14.22
  30. “The False Shadow of Domestic Extremism,” 9.14.22
  31. “The Armenian Genocide: Not the Only Legacy of the Ottoman Empire,” 5.2.22
  32. “Our Government: Gone to the Dogs?” [on the “white supremacy terrorism” myth], 4.11.22
  33. “Why the Spying King’s Eyes were Fixed on Trump” [on weaponizing the IC internally], 2.28.22
  34. “The Spies Who Hate Us” [also on weaponizing the IC internally], 2.25.22
  35. “Is Russia Playing Chess or Poker?,” 2.11.22
  36. “We Didn’t Start Islam’s Fire. But Can We Put It Out?,” 2.6.22
  37. “A Tin-Plated Dictator? Yes, but a Smart One We Can Do Business With,” 1.26.22
  38. “Gaslighting the Gullible: The Latest Biden Administration Counter-terrorism Plan,” 1.18.22
  39. “Sgt. Pepper and the Fall of the Soviet Union,” 12.27.21
  40. “9 A.D. and 9/11,” 9.10.21
  41. “The Last State of Afghanistan: Worse than the First,” 8.30.21
  42. “From Kabul to Kitchener,” 8.20.21
  43. “From Khartoum to Kabul,” 8.16.21
  44. “A Guide for the Misled–on Islam,” 7.11.21
  45. “Biden’s New Counter-terrorism Strategy: A Lying, Dog-faced, Pony Soldier of a Document,” 6.30.21
  46. “Iran’s New President: The Mahdi’s Mini-Me,” 6.24.21
  47. “White Supremacists Our Most Dangerous Threat? A Whiter Shade of Tall Tale,” 5.4.21
  48. “The Boulder Blunder: Ignorant Real Terror Sources to Chase Phantom Threats,” 3.25.21
  49. “Goodbye to Trump’s Results-Oriented Middle East Policies,” 2.11.21
  50. “The Daft Bigotry of Woke Expectations about Islam,” 1.26.21
  51. “9/11: 19 Years On,” 9.11.20
  52. “From Eastern Arabia with Love: the UAE Makes Peace with Israel,” 8.19.20
  53. “Mumbling toward Mecca,” 7.21.20.
  54. “Who Can Blame Erdoğan for Going Back to the Future?,” 7.14.20
  55. “How Middle-earth Can Help Us Deal with the Middle Kingdom,” 5.24.20
  56. “Let’s Leave the Afghan Desert and Just Call It Peace,” 3.2.20
  57. “Hotels v. Missiles: the Palestinians Chose…Poorly,” 2.7.20
  58. “Radicalized by the Quran? A Former ISIS Wife Shares Her Story,” 1.11.20
  59. “After al-Baghdadi,” 10.30.19
  60. “Trump’s Kurdish Policy: Sympathy for the (Turkish) Devil?,” 10.14.19
  61. “White Terrorists v. the Sultans of Slaughter,” 8.13.19
  62. “Do Iran’s Leaders Want to Hotwire the Apocalypse?,” 7.8.19
  63. “Contain Iran, Don’t Invade It,” 6.7.19
  64. “Trump’s Policies toward the Islamic World are a Triumph,” 5.4.19
  65. “ISIS is Not a Dead Parrot,” 4.8.19
  66. “Mohammed’s Koran: the Book Amazon Won’t Let You Buy,” 3.20.29