Incorrigible war-monger, Donald Trump, just can’t help but say the quiet part out loud. When interviewed on March 29 by the Financial Times, he confessed:

To be honest with you, my favorite thing is to take the oil in Iran, but some stupid people back in the US say: “why are you doing that?” But they’re stupid people.

It’s difficult to find much of anything we might call “good” coming out of the current US-Israel war against Iran. Yet, one positive development has been the fact that Israel’s deceitful practice of pretending it has no nuclear weapons program is now untenable. 

The renewal of the discussion around Israel’s nuclear arms program was prompted in part by Iranian missile strikes in the area of Dimona, a city in southern Israel known to house Israel’s nuclear research facilities. 

The current world crisis has its roots in the hypocritical Western insistence on so-called “universal values.” Originally from the Enlightenment, these included such laudable concepts as juridical equality, political freedom, natural rights, and religious tolerance. But these political values have been interpreted in myriad ways by Western thinkers, and only rarely in the strict sense; as protection of private property.

Duke University is perhaps best known for its very successful men’s basketball program, which is always ranked each year among the best collegiate teams. Unfortunately, a number of Duke faculty members 20 years ago, along with its president, board chairman, and other Duke administrators encouraged a corrupt district attorney to file false rape, kidnapping, and sexual assault charges against three members of its highly-ranked lacrosse team and did everything possible to try to prop up his case.