News from the Quarterdecks of the Operational Space From Kuwait, we see HIMARS missiles being fired at an area in Ahvaz, southwest Iran. American fighter jets have carried out an airstrike on the Chabahar region in southeastern Iran. The firing of HIMARS missiles at Ahvaz continues. American airstrikes are also being carried out on Bandar Abbas. An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base in rural Ahvaz is said to have been hit. In response to the US attack, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has carried out new suicide attacks with suicide drones on American bases in the region, especially on a secret American base in Iraqi Kurdistan, and has also launched a new attack on the PKK and PJAK terrorist organizations near Erbil. CENTCOM announced that the second attacks on Iran have begun. American jets are carrying out airstrikes on the Baluchistan region in southeastern Iran. New attacks have been carried out on Bandar Abbas. In Bahrain, the alarm has sounded. US jets conduct airs...
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Synthesis Blog Coming soon. A Synthesis blog: Where the power of music dances with the power of the pen. Definition: https://thelastenglishprince.wordpress.com/2024/06/03/synthesis-tammy-swofford-creates-a-new-genre-for-writing/ Examples here and the first is my favorite: https://thelastenglishprince.wordpress.com/2025/01/29/hello/ Additional links: https://thelastenglishprince.wordpress.com/2024/06/04/week-xix-tammy-for-trump/ https://thelastenglishprince.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/thomas-fugate-thunder-fucked/ https://thelastenglishprince.wordpress.com/2024/11/05/synthesis-election-blog-this-is-it/ For the Synthesis blog - we will be looking at this issue. I may save the post for later in the week, but it will make an appearance. https://nypost.com/2026/07/15/us-news/canadian-woman-kaitlyn-tracey-detained-by-ice-after-allegedly-assaulting-teen-girl-wearing-trump-clothing-at-jersey-shore/ Feel free to guess which musical selection will accompany the text. smile Ta...
A Bridge Too Far I do not write because I understand the world. I write, because the world is not easily understood. I am extremely uncomfortable with the mere verbalization of this thought: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/15/trump-iran-power-plants-strike-threat-strait-of-hormuz If we are to deny Iran's citizens of necessary infrastructure, why stop at that? Maybe we should just poison the water supply too? sigh Bombing bridges violates standard conventions associated with war. https://www.military.com/feature/2026/04/05/bridge-day-and-law-of-armed-conflict-us-obligations-and-limits-of-infrastructure-targeting.html What if that solitary bridge provides the only access to a children's hospital... a pharmacy... or a student's university? War is cruel enough, without morphing into deliberate cruelty against the civilian population... who we claim to be trying to save. Drum roll. Are we reduced to mechanical vultures haunting the s...
Lydia Mahserjian Yes, Lydia. I hear you. And I added my signature to the Change.org document you generated when I found you knocking on the door to my e mail. Please understand: Your elected representatives only real interest is their self-interest. The journalism question applies: "Who Benefits?" It is what I always ask when nibbling around the edges of a story. What you can do: Run alternative representatives for Mayor and City Council. And then make sure you run the current office holders out of office. Catapult them out of their seats. You deserve better. And hopefully - they will take their short-sighted greed for a temporary financial fix and move to the Mojave Desert. You have taxation without representation. For this - our forefathers mounted a revolution. Start a legal revolution in North Richland Hills. Anger - properly deployed and without intent to bring physical harm - is a...
Majlis-a-Shura The Majlis-a-Shura met earlier today in an open session. Take note of what is in the top left corner of the second image below. Nobody is asking me, but Hell, why not put the skunk on the table? Until we offer restitution for the lives of the children and staff killed at Minab, it is doubtful negotiations will move forward. But then again - have there really been any significant negotiations? smile
The Lies of Possibilities and the Poverty of Intentions We can imagine certain possibilities which are attainable. And for the lucky few, possibilities present as a unique gift. But for the vast majority of us - the lies of possibilities end up leaving us with the poverty of intentions. Such is the case with President Donald J Trump. He imagined that with a bifurcated political-military approach the Republic of Iran could be brought to its knees. On the ground, there would be no troops. The President did not want a robust body count from "Operation Epic Fury". In January, agitation propaganda ruled the day on the ground as we worked to stir the citizen-soldiers who latched onto a promise of hope that America would help the people of Iran free themselves of the Grand Ayatollah. This was parroted from not only the White House, but by members of Congress. But hope doesn't always float, except in the emotional realm. Hope can also plummet righ...