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One Agency That Trump Shouldn’t Nominate Anyone To Lead

One Agency That Trump Shouldn’t Nominate Anyone To Lead

by | Dec 12, 2024 |

President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be the administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has withdrawn. This is one agency that Trump shouldn’t nominate anyone to lead. The selection of Florida Hillsborough County sheriff Chad Chronister was opposed by many Republicans. Chronister “has a long and sordid history of making the exact sort of decisions that have contributed to widespread distrust in law enforcement. He arrested a pastor who defied the lockdowns during the...

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Will Donald Trump Stop Domestic Spying?

Will Donald Trump Stop Domestic Spying?

by | Dec 12, 2024 |

During the course of an FBI written response to a Freedom of Information Act request asking about the trade names and suppliers of surveillance software the FBI had purchased, the government has yet again quietly acknowledged its antipathy to constitutional provisions that all of its employees have sworn to uphold. Since we are dealing with software used to spy on Americans in the U.S. and abroad, the constitutional right being transgressed is the right to privacy. This is the ancient natural...

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Al-Qaeda Rides Again…in Syria

Al-Qaeda Rides Again…in Syria

by | Dec 11, 2024 |

As Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Christmas, a hell has been unleashed inside Syria with the seizure of the country by the re-named "al-Qaeda in Syria" now called Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Its leader is a former deputy commander of ISIS, Abu Mohammed al-Julani.  While neocons and the mainstream media in the US and Europe celebrate the overthrow of the Assad government - a priority since the Obama Administration - as with previous US "liberations" in Libya and Iraq the...

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After US ATACMS Strike On Strategic Target Russia Announces To Retaliate

After US ATACMS Strike On Strategic Target Russia Announces To Retaliate

by | Dec 11, 2024 |

Just five days ago I postulated that the U.S. Has Stopped Ukrainian ATACMS Strikes On Russia. Today that claim turned out to have been premature: Status-6 @Archer83Able - 13:24 UTC · Dec 11, 2024 The remains of a US-made MGM-140 ATACMS ballistic missile lying on the street in the Russian city of Taganrog following Ukrainian strikes last night. Image AFAIK the target was the 325th Aviation Repair Plant located in the vicinity of the Taganrog-Tsentralny Air Base. Taganrog, on the...

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Cowboy Cartels and Drug-War Inanity

Cowboy Cartels and Drug-War Inanity

by | Dec 11, 2024 |

Having watched the great drug-war Netflix documentaries Narcos and Narcos Mexico and the excellent drug-war drama La Reina del Sur, I wasn’t too interested in watching another drug-war-related series. But when I realized that the Apple TV+ documentary “Cowboy Cartel” revolved around my hometown of Laredo, Texas, where I lived almost half my life and practiced law for 8 years, I couldn’t resist watching it. While I can recommend Narcos and Narcos...

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How the Neocons Won the Transition

How the Neocons Won the Transition

by | Dec 11, 2024 |

One of the least competent administrations in recent American history is now currently giving way to one of the least impressive presidential transitions. It is hardly a stretch to observe that the Trump transition, co-chaired by Howard Lutnick and Linda McMahon, seems to have set for itself the goal of ensuring that the incoming president will receive the narrowest range of policy alternatives possible. What is emerging is a far cry from either the conservative “America First” nationalism...

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Congressional Committee Condemns (Nearly) Every Feature of the Covid Response

Congressional Committee Condemns (Nearly) Every Feature of the Covid Response

by | Dec 10, 2024 |

Are there words in the English language that fully describe what happened during the Covid years that are not already overused? Calamity comes to mind. Disaster. Cataclysm. Ruin, devastation, catastrophe, unprecedented debacle, fiasco, and utter wreckage – all fine words and phrases but nothing quite captures it.  Given that, there is probably no report on the thing that can properly characterize the whole of it. On the other hand, it’s worth trying.  Meanwhile, the results of Covid...

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When Rights Become Privileges: Is the Constitution Becoming Optional?

When Rights Become Privileges: Is the Constitution Becoming Optional?

by | Dec 10, 2024 |

Disguising its power grabs in the self-righteous fervor of national security, the Deep State has mastered the art of the bait-and-switch. It works like this: first, the government foments fear about some crisis or threat to national security, then they capitalize on it by seizing greater power and using those powers against the American people. We’ve seen this play out over and over again. The government used its so-called War on Terror to transform itself into a police state. Then the police...

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Peace Plans, Schmese Plans: Key Path to Ukraine Peace Long Ignored by All

Peace Plans, Schmese Plans: Key Path to Ukraine Peace Long Ignored by All

by | Dec 10, 2024 |

Politico ran the headline, "Ukraine Peace Plans Galore." Ukraine, Russia, and China each have a peace plan. Trump is developing one. The Alliance of Democracies has one. It looks a lot like Ukraine's plan at first glance. There's talk of a Demilitarized Zone between Ukraine and Russia. There's also the suggestion of imposing a frozen conflict. They seem like an open invitation for continued stress between the countries, not real peace. So, what's the ignored key path to peace I'm talking...

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Winners and losers in Syria

Winners and losers in Syria

by | Dec 9, 2024 |

Iran and Russia are the two big losers in the ouster of Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday by the Sunni Islamist groups affiliated to al-Qaeda. Assad fled in the nick of time  after giving orders that there be a peaceful handover of power. The likelihood is that he is in Russia. At any rate, a rollback of the Islamist takeover in Syria is out of the question. The Arab oligarchies of the Gulf region are full of trepidation over the surge of a variant of political Islam that may...

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‘This is Not the Time for Balance’: LA Times Columnist Resigns in Protest . . . Over Balanced Commentary

‘This is Not the Time for Balance’: LA Times Columnist Resigns in Protest . . . Over Balanced Commentary

by | Dec 9, 2024 |

When now President-Elect Donald Trump was convicted, the thrill-kill atmosphere around the courthouse and the country was explosive, but no one was more ecstatic than liberal columnist and former prosecutor Harry Litman. The then L.A. Times columnist told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace that it was a “majestic day” and “a day to celebrate.” A lawfare advocate, Litman excitedly laid out how Trump could be barred from office, declaring that the raid in Mar-a-Lago was the “whole...

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The Real Scandal of Hunter‘s Pardon

The Real Scandal of Hunter‘s Pardon

by | Dec 9, 2024 |

Politicians and pundits spent much of last week commenting on President Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter for lying on a federal gun purchase form, failing to pay taxes, and any other offenses he may have committed over the past decade. Much of the controversy is because President Biden repeatedly pledged that he would never pardon his son. Some have also observed that the pardon’s timeline starts the year Hunter Biden joined the board of the Ukraine energy company Burisma. This has led to...

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What’s Going on in Syria?

What’s Going on in Syria?

by | Dec 7, 2024 |

Syria is the mother of all mysteries. Even the Romans couldn’t figure out all the intrigues, plots, factions, coups and assassinations that were common there. Nor could they understand or deal with its hotbed of religions and weird sects. Two thousand years later, not much has changed. This week, irregular forces of a former al-Qaida outfit named Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) appeared out of the countryside and seized Syria’s second most important city, Aleppo. Syria’s dormant 14-year-old civil...

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Biden’s Nuclear Going Out of Business Sale

Biden’s Nuclear Going Out of Business Sale

by | Dec 7, 2024 |

Has the world forgotten the real danger of nuclear war? Do we live in a fantasy world where we think we can escalate tensions and put entire portions of the world under threat by using Ukraine as a sacrificial pawn (in what is classically sold as providing humanitarian and ally support) in a decades-long psychopathic foreign policy play to destroy Russia? According to the laws of war, NATO, the U.S., the U.K., and France have determined to become “direct participants” in Europe's deadly...

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‘Target is Damascus,’ Erdogan Hopes ‘Smooth March’ Toward Toppling Assad

‘Target is Damascus,’ Erdogan Hopes ‘Smooth March’ Toward Toppling Assad

by | Dec 7, 2024 |

After Friday prayers in Ankara, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan issued an unexpected statement which for many is tantamount to a full-on admission this his intelligence services are behind Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's capture of Aleppo, and ongoing blitz south.  "The target is Damascus," he said bluntly. "I would say we hope for this advance to continue without any issues." Thus the president of Turkey has just issued over approval for a jihadist-led regime change...

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After US ATACMS Strike On Strategic Target Russia Announces To Retaliate

US Has Stopped Ukrainian ATACMS Strikes On Russia

by | Dec 7, 2024 |

As further ATACMS strikes on Russia seem to have stopped this timeline is of interest. November 18: U.S. allows Ukraine to use ATACMS missiles against targets within Russia: The reversal of policy, nearly 1,000 days since Russia started its full-scale invasion on Ukraine, comes largely in response to Russia's deployment of North Korean troops to supplement its forces, a development that has caused alarm in Washington and Kyiv, a U.S. official and a source familiar with the decision...

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