An American with relatives in Iran embarks on a tour of the country after graduating from MIT with a degree in computer science. On his first day, hours after landing in Tehran, he is kidnapped. They take him to a place euphemistically known as The Center. Several days earlier, a father and daughter are kidnapped and taken to the same place. Simultaneously, a Stanford graduate in mechanical engineering is offered a job at a Silicon Valley startup, and the head of construction and permits a...

An Iraqi stonemason drives his family to a construction site to celebrate the project’s completion. On the way, he gets a flat tire delaying him for an hour, after which he gets back on track and works his way to the site. As he nears, he notices military troop carriers and a bulldozer driving to the site. He doesn’t stop. He drives to a hilltop nearby from where he could witness the activity. He couldn’t believe what he saw. His colleagues and their families were all dead. The bulldozer w...

On a beautiful sunny Sunday in Monterey California, Jason, Henry, their families, and a group of friends are enjoying a BBQ. They center their conversations on the outages caused by killer heat waves hitting the East coast and global warming. After much talking, some deep digging on the internet and through forums, they realize an EMP caused the outages. The news and the facts on the ground did not add up.That day splits the story into two parts.A friend deep in th...

The final, most recent (June 2017), UN-redacted, and complete set of documents as pertain to the U.S. involvement in Iran, from 1951-1954, with a specific focus on the engineered coup that resulted in the ouster of the democratically elected Prime Minister, Mohammad Mossadegh. This is an important corner stone, in American history, which sets the table for all that has occurred since tha...