John T. Reed’s news blog

I got some complaints that my new state-of-the-art website was harder to navigate. (Johntreed.com) So I changed the “John’s blogs” page. It used to have just a list of 8 blogs: my six book subjects plus headline news and military matters. Those take you to a page with the most recent five blog posts for each category. What I changed was to make that TWO columns. The right column is the same, but the left column gives you a linked list of ALL the articles on that subject. For the headline news and military articles, that takes you essentially to...

The West Point Class of the Gulf of TonkinNov 04, 2024, New Harvard coaches loses first Ivy game for lack of my clock book. Prior Harvard coach had it.Oct 29, 2024.Bills did not lose to Texans due to clock management mistakes.Oct 06, 2024 . Cal lost to #8 Miami with :26 left in the game because of clock-management mistakes.Oct 06, 2024 . The horrible five stages of a US hyperinflation crisis todaySep 20, 2024.You have been warned more about the coming hyperinflation than you were warned about any other financial crisis, yet hardly anyone is taking the protective steps that...

I endorsed Ben Carson recently, which I never do. But I just heard Richard Dawkins speak yesterday. He debated Carson on God once. He said that Carson believes the universe is 5,000 or 6,000 years old and that Satan affected Darwin when he wrote Origin of the Species. I tried to confirm that Carson said those things on the Net. The web sites saying that generally seemed to be liberal. Although some had his own words in YouTubes. He scoffed at the Big Bang Theory. I don’t believe he used the word Satan. Rather, he said “adversary,” which may be...

Copyright John T. Reed The public never seems to have figured out that terrorism is a publicity stunt. The goal of publicity stuntmen is publicity. Did al Qaeda get publicity as a result of 9/11? It may have been the most publicity anyone ever got for anything in the history of the world. Al Qaeda’s paymasters, ultimately, were the media and the folks who watched the videos of the planes going into the WTC. Did the media broadcast those images? Sure. So we can blame the media? No. Any media outlet that did not show those images would have seen...

Should we get all excited about Putin putting military in Syria and bombing some of the Muslims fighting there? Nope. Does Syria have a strategic location? Not unless you consider a land bridge between Lebanon, Israel and Jordan on the one hand and Turkey on the other important. I don’t. Is their oil strategic? Not much. They rank 68th in the world in oil. Are their people strategic? Nope. 18 million quarrelsome tribes and religions. Their border was drawn by France. Their civil war is arguably the biggest human disaster on earth at present. Now that he can no longer...