Scene 29. INT. BASEMENT - DAY

Vernon and Carl are sitting and talking.

VERNON
What did you want to be when you
were young?

CARL
When I was a kid, I wanted to be
John Lennon...

VERNON
Carl don't be a...

"The existing set of reserve currencies, including the US dollar, have failed to perform their functions." - Dmitry Medvedev, 6-17-09, Yekaterinburg, Russia

"The international capitalist order is retreating." - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, 6-17-09, Yekaterinburg, Russia

"We don't have any problems with US investment." - M.A. Khatibi Tabatabaei, Iran's representative on OPEC's...

"Come on baby won't you show me what you got, yeah; I want your salvation, whoa." - Rancid, 1994

Wha, wa, wait...what just happened?!?

One second there were faces of smiling, enthusiastic kids in the streets wearing green scarves and Chachi Arcola-style leg bandanas for CNN and...

One of the potentially more daring and unique foreign policy mandates of the Obama Administration involves a pivotal shift in U.S./Iran relations (or lack thereof). The core reasons for said shift are not limited to America's political interests in the Middle East. More so, they entail intricate long-term geostrategic considerations...