Author: Robert DiBlasio

Writer/Podcaster. Socialist, Pluralist, Free Speech Advocate. Born in Jersey City, NJ.
American Political Tragedy
Featured Media Politics

January 6th: Portrait of an American Travesty

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The January 6th insurrection was an American travesty and the pinnacle of Trumpism. The vile, xenophobic, reactionary effects Donald Trump and his policies had on these Far-Right hooligans came to a deadly, super-violent head that day. The riots were responsible for seven deaths, including Capitol Hill Police officers and Trump supporters. The footage of Capitol Hill Police so grossly outnumbered by the flag waiving rabble seemed too have a heavier
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Russia vs Ukraine
Featured Media Politics War

Russia vs Ukraine: War Crimes, Propaganda and the Scourge of Modern Warfare

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Russia vs Ukraine. We hear so many reports of genocide and war crimes from the iron tentacles of the Mainstream Media you'd think Mariupol is comparable to Riga, Latvia circa 1941. And folks it's certainly far from that. I've seen the footage from Bucha, whom do we believe when anyone with a camera and youtube account these days are deemed journalists? The reports from "professional" news source, Reuters are at
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Apocalypto (Poem from Junkie Spirit Collection)

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Apocalypto Currency in crypto Any day the world will break apart You won't be saved by a liberals bleeding heart. No solution from the fools on the hill Mental anguish, can't be cured by a magic pill. Environmental catastrophe, It's seems big brother's always after me. Could it be true or just another conspiracy? Every word I say they're really hearing me What's in store for 2022? More strife and
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Petro-Dollar
Featured Business Politics

Demise of the Petrodollar

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If you're not quite sure what the Petrodollar is, it's pretty uncomplicated. Back in the 1970's, at the height of the oil crisis, United States President Richard Nixon conceived an economic master plan. He offered to help defend Saudi Arabia from their burgeoning Middle East rivals. In exchange for that promise, the Saudi kingdom assured all of its oil production be traded in USD (energyandcapital.com). This strategic stroke of genius
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US Economy
News Society

Has the American Dream Become a Nightmare?

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The American Dream can be summed up currently by the jobs report in November of 2021. According to a recent New York Times piece, 4.5 million Americans wilfully quit their jobs. What could possibly compel such record numbers of people to walk out of their place of employment and into an immediate state of uncertainty? Is it reasonable to believe the human race has become so incredibly lazy and indifferent that
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Syrian War
News Politics War

The Decade of War and Catastrophe in Syria: Part 3

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The Decade of War and Catastrophe in Syria: Part 3 - Assad the Puppet, US/Israeli Bombs and No Future On March 15th, 2021 it became 10 years since a war which was born out of the Arab Spring with hopes of overthrowing dictator Bashar Al-Assad and wound up becoming something so much more complex, involving several world powers, numerous proxies and militias, as well as the most brutally barbaric terrorist
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News Health Politics

The Enigma of Covid

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The date was December 19, 2019, the location, an institute of virology in Wuhan, China, where the most significant and deadly pandemic in more than a century was released upon an unsuspecting, unprepared planet (dates courtesy of brittannica.com). The source of the Covid virus is still very much a mystery. Did it really originate and spread from a meat market in the center of the city of the Wuhan, China?
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Saudi Oil
Featured Politics War

Saudi Arabia: Human Rights, Oil and the Modern Monarchy

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2019 in Saudi Arabia, one of the richest nations in the world, to be a female today must've felt like you were back in 8th century. Despite promised reforms by the crown prince Muhammad Bin Salman (being of the opposite sex meant) you couldn't drive a car, travel without a male guardian or report sexual abuse by a spouse/ partner. According to Amnesty international, laws weren't just draconian for women.
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The Decade of War and Catastrophe in Syria: Pt 2

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The Decade of War and Catastrophe in Syria: Part 2- Foreign Interventions, Kurdish Militias and the Fall of the Caliphate The Islamic State reached it's territorial peak in the fall of 2014, ISIS controlled 41,000 square miles in Iraq and by the end of 2014 ISIS had taken over a third of Syria (according to wilsoncenter.org). The speed at which the outlaw organization was able to conquer such a large
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