Eve Ottenberg

The latest crime thriller from acclaimed local author E.A. Aymar mixes dark humor, brutal violence, and the realities of immigrating to the U.S. for a fast and furious read.

Photograph Source: Geraldshields11 – CC BY-SA 3.0 With SpaceX in the lead, a group of very rich corporations, some headed by billionaires

Lots of people have been blamed for the frenzy to ban TikTok, from the CIA and FBI, to the mainstream media, to political elites, to AIPAC, to competitors like Facebook.

Havana Syndrome, it turns out, is a figment of lots of overheated imaginations. There are no death-ray microwaves aimed at American heads in the U.S.

Photograph Source: 15th BRICS SUMMIT – Public Domain Long bullied on the Western playground, Serbia finally may acquire a big, strong

Photograph Source: Asamblea Nacional del Ecuador – CC BY-SA 3.0 The U.S. puppet in Ecuador, President Daniel Noboa, is on quite a roll.

How will Biden conceal the inflation rampaging throughout his term? The latest scheme appears to be draining the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to the last drop. It’s already down to 17 percent, because Biden opened the spigot when his idiotic sanctions on Russian energy back in 2022 boosted prices at the pump into the stratosphere, always a terrifying development for homo politicus. Biden tamed gas prices by emptying most of the SPR. Now he may finish it off, because no, he can’t have gas prices rising before the election, not they way they did back two summers ago, when filling your tank cost almost as much as a new laptop.

Photo by Maksym Kaharlytskyi You know the White House has wrapped itself into a pretzel, when it beseeches its Ukrainian attack dog to stop

The UAW is on a roll. After winning stupendous contracts at the Big Three automakers this past year, the union then organized Volkswagen in Tennessee April 20. What’s eye-popping about this is that the UAW succeeded not only in the South, but also with a foreign car manufacturer – a twofer. Now as the union zooms in on a May vote by 5000 workers at Mercedes in Alabama, the larger implications of Shawn Fain’s still relatively new union presidency have become clear, namely, a change in workers’ culture in the anti-union, right-to-work South; because if the UAW racks up more wins in the region, that will alter the local political ecosystem. Politicos will find themselves in an environment that includes a growing union presence, something they have sought to extirpate for generations.

It's now been about four weeks since Iranian missiles filled Israeli skies, as humanity held its breath for nuclear war and possible extinction.