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We are accustomed to being the leader of the global order, the big kahuna on planet earth.  But our preeminence is slipping.  And your media, whether it’s Fox News or CNN, is not telling you about it. Tuesday night, a two-day summit wrapped up that will slowly but surely have...

The Iran War may be backfiring on us.  It may be losing us our towering position with the oil-producing countries of the Middle East. On February 28th when the United States and Israel mounted a surprise strike on a meeting of Iran’s top leaders in the hope that the Iranian...

Wednesday afternoon, June 17th, the president and his administration released a document they had been teasing for close to a week: a 14-point memo of understanding bringing the war with Iran to a close.  Is that memo of understanding, that MOU, a victory or a defeat for the United States? Is...

Donald Trump has now told us for the 38th time that we are on the brink of a peace deal with Iran, a Memorandum of Understanding in which we both agree to turn the Strait of Hormuz back into a free passage zone, in which we agree to stage a next...

Two surprising things happened in the Iran War on Wednesday, June 3rd.  Congress passed a War Powers Resolution.  And our president announced about Iran’s supreme leader that “we seem to be getting along quite well” and that he would like to sit down with him in person. Meanwhile, our president has proclaimed...

Our president believes we’ve won the Iran war.  Decisively.  He might be surprised to discover that Iran believes he’s lost. Yes, Iran thinks it has won.  And that the US and our Israeli partner have suffered many “strategic defeats at the hands of the Islamic Revolution” and have “failed to...

Howard Bloom has built a career on asking big, unsettling questions about how the world works. In The Case of the Sexual Cosmos, he delivers one of his most expansive visions yet—an argument that challenges conventional ideas about evolution, physics, and the very direction of the universe. This is not just a...

Who the Hell Is Howard Bloom? Howard Bloom is one of those wildly eclectic thinkers who refuses to be pinned down — he’s part science theorist, part cultural provocateur, and part cosmic storyteller. Born in Buffalo in 1943, Bloom started off as a science-obsessed kid, digging into microbiology and cosmology...

Howard Bloom has never been interested in safe ideas. His work lives in the uncomfortable space where science, culture, psychology, and history collide—and where most thinkers politely stop asking questions. Bloom keeps going. For decades, he’s built a reputation as a radical systems thinker, futurist, and cultural critic who doesn’t just...

On Monday December 8th the Oxford University Press Journal SLEEP Advances made a startling claim: that, as one headline put it, getting less than seven hours of sleep is linked to shorter life expectancy. In other words, get less than seven hours of sleep per night and you shorten your life....

The big question in astrophysics right now is whether our solar system has been penetrated by a giant spaceship.  A spaceship from a distant solar system. And from a distant civilization. A spaceship that deliberately cruised past three separate planets, then hid behind the sun.  Why swing behind the sun? Says Harvard...

We are witnessing an attempt to destroy America’s constitutional democracy. Something has happened that is very useful to the constitution destroyers:  the murder on September 15th in Utah of high profile MAGA promoter Charlie Kirk, leader of the movement Turning Point USA. Thanks to that murder, as Fox’s News’ Jesse Watters says,...

Wednesday, April 29th, in New York State’s capital, Albany, Governor Kathy Hochul and the leaders of the New York State Assembly and the New York State Senate announced an agreement on a whopping $254 billion state budget—a budget that still requires approval by the New York State Legislature. Buried in...

The evening of April 22nd at 7:08 pm the Washington news publication Axios revealed the hidden details of Donald Trump’s peace plan for the Ukraine, his “final offer.”  What did our president’s peace plan require? That Ukraine recognizes as Russian a key piece of Ukrainian territory that Russia seized by force...

In the wake of Covid, are Americans losing their minds? Sort of. We are going crazy for animal stories.  Why? It could be because stories of insanity among humans are just too hard for us to take. In the Associated Press’s list of the 31 oddest stories of the week, fully...

The Internet has been under constant attack for the last 20 years as the source of all of our emotional woes, from depression, cyberbullying, and suicide to negative body image. The anti-Internet attack has been so fierce that nine states have tried to ban social media access for kids under...

Two days ago a story showed up in the New York Post, AOL, Yahoo, The Indiana Gazette, Reddit, and a dozen more media outlets announcing that 38% of American workers never felt more uninspired at work.   Yes, uninspired. And the pollsters recommended refreshing workers by providing them with exercise...

On Wednesday, April 24th, the Senate passed a TikTok bill. And Joe Biden signed it into law. The new law says that ByteDance, the company that founded and owns TikTok, must sell TikTok to an American purchaser within nine months or TikTok will be banished from the Apple and Google...

Thomas S. Dee, an education professor at Stanford University, has just released the results of a study he carried out in partnership with the Associated Press.  The study’s topic is student absenteeism in 40 states, and the results are disturbing. The Dee study concludes that 6.5 million students are chronic absentees.  They...

Howard Bloom, a scientific thinker on "a quest for the dark underbelly where new myths and movements are made," worked with Michael Jackson in 1982 and 1983 and found Jackson to be "the most astonishing human I have ever met." Bloom wrote up his experiences in his book “Einstein, Michael...

According to a headline from England’s Daily Mail, “American adults now spend more time watching Netflix and other digital platforms than viewing traditional TV for the first time ever.” The information for this story and a dozen others like it come from a press release put out on the morning...

Early in the morning of November 7th, Vladimir Putin chaired an online meeting of his Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights and made some disturbing statements about nuclear weapons. But before we get into Putin’s latest nuclear end-of-the-world scenario, it’s important to understand what Putin’s Council...

On Tuesday, September 13, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, came out of a subway station in central Tehran, walked through a park, and in that park was arrested by Iran’s Moral Security Police. The morality policemen bundled her into their standard white and green Morality Patrol van.  And, according...

TAE Technologies, a company co-founded in 1998 by Harry Hamlin, co-chair of the Howard Bloom Institute’s Why Save Western Civilization Initiative, has now raised $1.2 billion for its clean nuclear fusion effort in collaboration with Google. TAE has breakthrough approaches that it believes can allow it to deliver clean electricity...

In most of the United States, hospitalizations and deaths from Covid seem to be way, way down. Covid deaths nationwide are 522 a day, a tiny fraction of the nearly 3,900 a day in February. But things are not as quiet as they look. In Los Angeles County, Covid is...

On June 8th, the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society published a Harvard study of 159,255 women. That is a huge number of study subjects. The Harvard research revealed a simple fact. Whether you are black, white, or Hispanic, optimism can help you live longer and reach beyond the age...

The NFT Stars team just sold the incredible “REO Plaque” Celebrity Drop created by The Howard Bloom Institute. Howard Bloom played a huge role as a music publicist, particularly in how the story of REO Speedwagon unfolded. At the time of their collaboration, REO Speedwagon released the Hi Infidelity album...

A crime is taking place before our very eyes. Three Supreme Court justices have committed perjury. All three tried to give the impression in their Senate confirmation hearings that if elevated to the highest bench in the land, they would not overturn Roe v. Wade. All three of them deliberately...

Howard Bloom Guests on The Mike Wagner Show on iHeart Radio. Howard Bloom has been called Einstein, Darwin, Newton, and Freud of the 21st century by Britain’s Channel 4 TV. He’s been published or given lectures at scholarly conferences in twelve fields, from quantum physics, cosmology, and evolutionary biology, to...

Howard Bloom will be a featured guest on The Happy Hour Podcast on Sunday, August 8th, 2021 at 7 PM EST.   Howard Bloom, the author whose latest book Einstein, Michael Jackson & Me: a Search  for Soul in the Power Pits of Rock & Roll, has been called "next...