The Collapse of Civility: A Historical and Psychological Analysis of “Civil War” (2024)

The 2024 film “Civil War,” directed by Alex Garland, offers a dystopian glimpse into a near-future America torn apart by internal conflict. Through the eyes of a group of journalists, the movie explores the rapid psychological transformation that occurs when citizens are thrust into violent opposition against their former friends and neighbors.

There Is Only One Crime in War, and That’s Losing

One of the most controversial episodes of the television show Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is “In the Pale Moonlight,” in which Captain Benjamin Sisko, plagued by the mounting casualty lists in the interstellar war between the United Federation of Planets and Klingon Empire against the Cardassian Union and the Dominion, concocts a plan to …

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Going to War Based on Intelligence Estimates? We’ve Done That Before!

In 2002, President George W Bush started pushing for military action against Iraq, which the Central Intelligence Agency had told him was building and holding ‘weapons of mass destruction,’ WMD, in violation of United Nations’ sanctions after President Saddam Hussein al Tikriti had sent his Republican Guard to conquer and annex bordering Kuwait. President Hussein’s …

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Cyrus Force – Iran A New Iran

We, the Iranian Americans of CYRUS FORCE, left our birth country, Iran, due to a Constitution that was imposed upon our countrymen by the Ayatollahs. We bring this to your attention today because we ask for a voice in the Senate. We believe that, with the help of the American government, Americans can facilitate the …

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The Iranians are crying for the United States to help them

Their candy asses having been thoroughly kicked, Iran wants the “Great Satan” to help them out against the evil “Zionist regime” in “occupied Palestine.” I am wryly amused. From The Wall Street Journal: A Battered Iran Signals It Wants to De-Escalate Hostilities With Israel and Negotiate Messages passed by Tehran through intermediaries seek a return …

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