Category: World News

Bookworm Beat 6/18/25: A special Israel-Iran War illustrated edition

Posted on June 18, 2025June 18, 2025 by Bookworm

This one doesn’t need an introduction, other than to say Am Israel Chai!

Bookworm Beat 10/11/23: A special Israel illustrated edition

Posted on October 11, 2023October 11, 2023 by Bookworm

What happened in Israel is a declaration of war and a war crime. The West’s inability to distinguish between the moral and the immoral is also a war crime. Some of these memes and videos may help clarify things.

What happened to Nigel Farage is England’s ultimate betrayal of its principles

Posted on July 6, 2023 by Bookworm

The English banking system has betrayed Nigel Farage and, in doing so, also betrayed everything England once represented.

How do British subjects like their new king?

Posted on May 9, 2023 by Bookworm

I did not write the following post. Instead, it is by Christopher Monckton of Brenchley and originally appeared at American Thinker. As you can see, it has lots of pictures. However, to avoid overloading the server, AT purges pictures after six weeks. Because this is a photo essay, I volunteered

When it comes to China, I blame the giant panda bears

Posted on October 11, 2022October 11, 2022 by Bookworm

I know this sounds crazy, but I think China’s identification with giant pandas leads too many to think the CCP is as harmless as those cute bears.

Down Under, a world asunder thanks to COVID and leftism

Posted on September 14, 2022 by Bookworm

This is a guest post from “Nodrog,” my Australian friend, bemoaning the state of his home country.

What’s happening in Ukraine is not genocide

Posted on March 11, 2022 by Bookworm

What’s happening to Ukraine’s civilian population is terrible and tragic, but it’s not genocide. You’ve probably noticed the word “genocide” being thrown around with abandon in Ukraine. President Zelensky, who is Jewish and whose grandfather lost his family to the Holocaust, used it just recently: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on

Still further thoughts on Ukraine

Posted on March 2, 2022 by Bookworm

A lot of information ends up in my lap and it is confusing me about Ukraine, rather than clarifying things. I’m not evolving on Ukraine, I’m de-volving. The more information comes my way the more I know only two things with certainty: I’m deeply confused and I’m being manipulated. At

Biden, Ukraine, and Al Capone’s vault

Posted on February 27, 2022February 27, 2022 by Bookworm

If Biden looks weak regarding Ukraine (and, boy, does he), he did it to himself, plus a few other thoughts. (Note: This site is going to look funny and function badly for a day or two as I go through the plugins trying to find which is the one messing

Revised thoughts on Ukraine *UPDATED

Posted on February 26, 2022February 26, 2022 by Bookworm

Watching Putin’s blitzkrieg, I realize that I have to revise my whole view of things. My fundamental principles have remained unchanged: America shouldn’t be the world’s policeman and it’s absolutely horrific to think of sending America’s young men to war with Biden as the Commander-in-Chief and his woke Pentagon calling

Cost Plus World Market’s hypocritical virtue signaling

Posted on September 27, 2021 by Bookworm

The hypocritical climate-change virtue signaling at Cost Plus would be funny if it didn’t weaken America and strengthen China. I grew up as a Cost Plus child. We used to shop at the original store in Fisherman’s Wharf (where it opened in 1958), although beginning sometime in the 1960s, we

A sad letter from England

Posted on September 25, 2021 by Bookworm

A friend says England is quite a bit the worse of COVID wear. I believe that because no country can survive endless, cyclical lockdowns. One of the joys of the internet is that I’ve reconnected with a very dear friend of mine from England. She is an incredible letter writer

Questions, please, for interviewing an Iranian physician

Posted on September 25, 2021 by Bookworm

I may have an opportunity to ask questions of a physician from Iran. He’s willing to talk about COVID as well as medicine in general. If this comes to anything, I need to use this opportunity wisely and ask the most intelligent questions I can. To me, figuring out how

It’s not just that wokeists are evil; they’re also terribly uninformed

Posted on September 9, 2021 by Bookworm

As a North Carolina professor shows, wokeists aren’t merely evil (although they are very evil). They are also grossly ignorant. The University of North Carolina, a taxpayer-funded institution, teaches a course called “Global Whiteness.” That’s wrong right off the bat and illegal under the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It’s hate-filled

Afghanistan v. Abortion: What really riles Democrats

Posted on September 3, 2021September 3, 2021 by Bookworm

Having the Texas abortion issue arise on the heels of the Afghanistan debacle has been illuminating, to say the least. I haven’t written for a while because I find myself with surprisingly little to say. I’ve always written to share information and, to the extent I occasionally have them, insights.