It was another horrific week in Washington with President Donald Trump actually succeeding in coming out with an apparently improvised comment that equaled or maybe even exceeded his ghastly performance at the United Nations where he speculated over whether he should...
The US military announced this week that it had killed four ânarco-terroristsâ by blowing up another boat in the Caribbean. This now brings the military death toll from these types of military boat killings to 235 people. I have addressed these types of killings in...
That it is better 100 guilty persons should escape, than that one innocent person should suffer. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) The hardest decision a government prosecutor may ever face is also one of the most important tests of the rule of law: What do you do when...
The Trump administration took the unusual step of negotiating directly for the release of captive IDF soldier Edan Alexander on the grounds that he was a dual American-Israeli citizen. But a source whoâs been in contact with his family says he was not a US citizen at...
Another day and another fact-free diatribe by the president of the United States. Trump went on his Truth Social (where truth is a rare commodity) and said Democrats have closed down the nationâs refinery capacity, and this is the reason diesel and gas prices are...
Benjamin Netanyahu likes to translate Israelâs grief into American. At the United Nations last month, he took the dead of October 7 and multiplied them by the ratio of Americaâs population to Israelâs. The 1,200 Israelis killed that day, he said, were âequal to 40,000...
Ian Proudâs arrest by secret police at a London airport marks a new low in how far the deep state can go to control a false narrative. But it also shows a new level of fear. As mad as it sounds, it does appear that Western European nations at least are preparing...
We are on a path to more war. Trump could (and should) have declared victory and simply walked away from Iran, but that would have cast him as âa loserâ (a prospect that he cannot tolerate). But secondly, he is â for whatever reason â in thrall to Netanyahu and...
In March 2003, the US Empire invaded and occupied Iraq under the rubric of âOperation Iraqi Freedom.â Last week, twenty-three years later, the last US troops have been withdrawn from Iraq. I think almost every American would agree with one thing about that particular...
Itâs rather forgotten today how Washingtonâs post-9/11 imperial adventurism was not restricted to military intervention. A core component of the Bush administrationâs âFreedom Agendaâ - under the auspices of which calamitous wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere...
As the midterm election draws near, a number of Republicans in tough races are distancing themselves from President Trumpâs war. The war is unpopular because it has inflicted economic pain on the already-suffering American people. No, I am not talking about the Iran...
America, you got fooled. Again. For starters, the war on illegal immigration was never just about illegal immigration. If you fell for that, chances are youâre still falling for the governmentâs oldest trick: manufacture a crisis, identify an enemy, frighten...
President Donald Trump has gone and really done it this time. âWe had them under view for a long time, and we got them,â he said about the five British men arrested at RAF Fairford, initially said to be terrorists targeting US aircraft at the British base. It turns...
The Constitution is the law that the people of the United States have imposed on federal officials. Thatâs what makes it the highest law of the land. US officials expect American citizens to comply with federal laws that control the actions of the citizenry. By the...
Thomas Cromwell was the Lord Chancellor of England for much of the reign of King Henry VIII. He engineered the convictions and executions of many whom Henry wanted out of the way, including his two predecessors in office -- one of whom was St. Thomas More -- and even...
Past days have seen the European political classes turning up the volume to maximum on clearly concerted â and shared â speaking-notes: âWar with Russia is coming; Russia intends to strike NATO; we must prepare; stock up on bottled water, tinned food, and be ready to...
Once upon a time the United States of America was confident that it, shielded by broad oceans to the East and West and having friendly countries that it dominated economically and militarily to the North and South, was safe from any threat by any foreign nation or...
During an Oval Office interview, President Trump declared Cuba is his and he can do whatever he likes with it, the same as he does with Mar-a-Lago and Trump Turnberry. âI think Iâll have the honor of conquering Cuba,â said 47, hunched over the Resolute Desk. âThat...
âGod help the Nation when it has a President who doesnât know as much about the military as I do,â - President Dwight D. Eisenhower speaking to his White House Staff Secretary, Gen. Andrew Goodpaster. These words are quoted in a book about Eisenhowerâs foreign policy...
Most indicators suggest that the Republicans in the House and Senate are going to face a brutal backlash from the American people in November. Polling with generic ballots suggest a big win for the Democrats and likely the loss of Republican control of both houses of...
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