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Nov 15, 2016, 11:19 PM

Is Trump Taking the U.S. Down a Banana Republic Path?

The people have spoken, and while Donald Trump lost the popular vote and only won in the electoral college with tiny margins in a few key states, he did win. He will be president of the United States. Which has...

Jun 1, 2016, 1:26 AM

Remembering what Americans Should Have Been Remembering on Memorial Day

The U.S. has just celebrated Memorial Day. And notwithstanding that the United States has continuously been in combat for almost 15 years now, including but hardly limited to two major wars, the original idea of the holiday is steadily...

May 14, 2016, 3:35 PM

Donald Trump’s tough guy problem

“Mike Tyson endorsed me,” GOP Presidential Candidate Donald Trump told a crowd in Indianapolis shortly before the primary. “You know, all the tough guys endorse me. I like that, OK?” He added, “When I get endorsed by the tough...

May 12, 2016, 10:41 AM

Zika virus (hysteria) claims another victim

It’s a common theme of mine that the American spirit is growing steadily weaker. Americans want lots of goodies from the government but don’t want to pay for them. They like foreign wars; but don’t want to serve. Among...

May 25, 2015, 11:27 AM

Don’t write off air war against ISIS – it hasn’t been tried yet

“The Cemetery of the Americans.” That’s what graffiti said in the western Iraq city of Ramadi when I first embedded there in 2006. Indeed, my two journalist predecessors in Camp Corregidor were both shot be snipers. Within weeks the first...

May 4, 2015, 11:22 PM

Ramadi and Obama’s phony air war against ISIS

The Obama Administration continues to show complete incompetence in dealing with ISIS. Case in point: It’s decided that Ramadi, the capital of Anbar Province in western Iraq, is expendable – thereby showing it understands nothing about the value of...

Mar 17, 2015, 8:44 PM

The Real “American Sniper” from One Who Was There

Few Americans these days will admit to supporting the 2003 Iraq invasion, especially given we now know it helped give rise to IS. But the forerunner and current ally of IS was al Qaeda in Iraq , bad people...

Jan 23, 2015, 11:37 AM

Death of the Ebola epidemic and the lessons unlearned

Despite doomsday predictions, the epidemic is on the wane, and anyone with Web access could have predicted it

Dec 15, 2014, 11:47 PM

No Polite Way to Say it, We Were Lied to on Ebola

The current Ebola outbreak is “the most severe, acute health emergency seen in modern times,” Ian Smith, the World Health Organization’s executive director, announced at a mid-October press conference. Huh? Worse than the “Spanish flu” of 1918-19? Extrapolated to today’s...

Nov 11, 2014, 8:15 PM

Those You Leave Behind in Combat Whom You Can Never Leave Behind

It’s Veterans Day in America, yet there are progressively fewer to venerate. Most of the World War II generation is gone and even the older Vietnam vets are reaching average life expectancy. Relatively few Americans have served in Iraq...

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About Me

Michael Fumento is an attorney, author, and photo-journalist and US Army Airborne veteran who saw combat as a photo-journalist in Iraq and embedded in Afghanistan as well. He thus has no stomach for sissies. He is author of five published books and over 800 articles for major publications worldwide, and for many years was on staff at several US think tanks. He currently resides in Colorado, USA.