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Kharg Island and Global Oil Supply

Kharg – The Bleeding Black Pearl

Kharg – The Bleeding Black Pearl of Persia

By Calvin P. Tran

On the one thousand and second night, when the oil lamps in the palace had burned low and the desert wind drifted through the cold stone corridors, she bowed before the king and began once more:

“Your Majesty, tonight’s tale begins on a small island in the Persian Gulf, where the sea is deep blue, yet the earth beneath is as black as tar.
That island is called Kharg Island.”

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When the Courts Must Defend

When the Courts Must Defend the Independence of the Fed

By Calvin P. Tran

A federal judge blocks subpoenas targeting the Federal Reserve, raising deeper questions about political pressure on monetary policy.

For decades, the independence of the U.S. central bank rested less on court rulings than on an unwritten political norm: presidents do not pressure monetary policy.

This week, that tradition had to be defended in a courtroom.

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Read Trump, a Curious Tale

Trump, a Curious Tale

An Unusual Tale of Power — Calvin P. Tran
Book Cover Trump a Curious Tale

This book tells a curious tale — one that resists easy judgment.

In Trump, a Curious Tale, Trump is not presented for reverence, but for observation. What emerges is less a figure of reverence than something far more peculiar: a moment when power steps forward without disguise and politics sheds much of its inherited solemnity.

Every era has its stories of power. Not every era allows power to speak so openly about itself.

The central figure here is not a symbol or a myth. He is a man entering politics with theatrical instinct, unwavering confidence, and a belief that rules exist to be tested.

When President Donald J. Trump signed his first executive orders, the world did not collapse. No alarm sounded. History did not turn overnight. Yet within that calm, a different rhythm surfaced — one in which speed outweighed consensus, volume displaced precision, and institutions struggled to match acceleration.

This work does not argue morality. It examines how power is exercised, displayed, and legitimized through public emotion. Here, promises need not be fulfilled — only compelling enough to sustain belief. Truth need not be denied — only drowned in louder proclamations.

This tale moves through institutions attempting to hold their ground, allies adjusting, opponents waiting, and a public both skeptical and captivated.

Trump does not stand outside his era. He is both its product and its catalyst — revealing existing fractures with unusual clarity.

A reminder appears at the threshold:

“Power rarely limits itself.
It stops only when people remain lucid enough to recognize what they are giving it.”

— Trump, a Curious Tale

The cost of that offering is borne not only by the present —
but by the memory of the future.

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