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One photo just confronted every American with a question they cannot escape

by | Jul 28, 2025 |

A child's hollow eyes stare back from your screen. His name is Mohammad Al-Motawaq, and he is dying of starvation. And those who see it will never be the same. "Behold, we did not know this" In a tent by the Mediterranean Sea, 30-year-old widow Hidaya Al-Motawaq cradles what remains of her 18-month-old son.¹ https://twitter.com/Medo198518/status/1949090160320131332 As NPR's Anas Baba reported, Mohammad "is a year and a half old and nearly all bone. His eyes protrude, as does his swollen...

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Militarized Law Enforcement Reaches a New Level under Trump

Militarized Law Enforcement Reaches a New Level under Trump

by | Jul 28, 2025 |

Law enforcement in the United States has exhibited an exceptional degree of harshness, if not outright brutality, during the initial months of Donald Trump’s second term in the White House.  A majority of the most flagrant examples have involved enforcement actions by the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division.  Numerous stories have appeared in the news media about ICE agents appearing at workplaces and schools to...

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Here’s What Gabbard’s Russiagate Report Missed

Here’s What Gabbard’s Russiagate Report Missed

by | Jul 28, 2025 |

"An easing of tensions and improved relations with Russia -- from a position of strength -- is possible. Common sense says this cycle of hostility must end." Candidate Donald Trump said that on April 27, 2016. At first glance that might sound rather irrelevant to Gabbard's Russiagate revelations. But let me connect the dots for you.The first point is that Russiagate has inflamed US-Russia tensions. That action actually had a number of beneficiaries. Their interests would be harmed by Trump's...

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Nobody for Fed Chairman

Nobody for Fed Chairman

by | Jul 28, 2025 |

President Trump has recently suggested that, unless Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell cuts interest rates, the president might revert to his The Apprentice days and tell Powell, “you’re fired.” President Trump backtracked on firing Powell after the president’s comments caused stock markets to fall. However, it is almost certain that President Trump will not reappoint Powell when Powell’s term ends in May. Media reports indicate the leading candidates to replace Powell include Treasury...

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To Enforce the Laws Faithfully

To Enforce the Laws Faithfully

by | Jul 25, 2025 |

When the IRS announced two weeks ago that it would not enforce a section of federal law commonly called the Johnson Amendment, many clerics rejoiced. The Johnson Amendment -- named for its author, then-Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson -- strikes a bargain with charities. You accept tax-free dollars, you stay out of the political arena. The amendment is the federal law, codified in the IRS Code at 501(c)(3), that permits the IRS to grant tax-exempt status to qualifying charities. The tax exemptions...

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From Hero to Zero

From Hero to Zero

by | Jul 24, 2025 |

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, in February 2022, Volodymyr Zelensky has been elevated to the status of a hero King, pure in thought and deed, interested only in saving humble Ukraine from the onrushing hordes of Russian Orcs. Like Aragorn from Lord of the Rings, but short, thin-skinned and with a gravelly voice. He has been completely immune from any criticism in the west, with all allegations dismissed and labelled as Kremlin talking points. Yet, in an instant, that illusion has been...

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NATO Expansion — The Root Cause of the War in Ukraine

NATO Expansion — The Root Cause of the War in Ukraine

by | Jul 24, 2025 |

I know there is a lot of interest in the Jeffrey Epstein story and the new revelations from Tulsi Gabbard about Barack Obama and his team’s efforts to fan the flames of Russiagate. I have been all over the Russiagate matter since 2017. Here is the link to a piece I published on December 18, 2018 with the nifty title, The Trump Coup Is a Threat to Our Republic. I am glad the information is finally coming out, but I knew this seven years ago. What took them so long? While...

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An Offensive Shield — for Impunity, and Genocide: The Iron Dome and U.S. Complicity in Slaughter of Gazans

An Offensive Shield — for Impunity, and Genocide: The Iron Dome and U.S. Complicity in Slaughter of Gazans

by | Jul 23, 2025 |

The House of Representatives has approved giving Israel an additional $1.3 billion in “emergency defense assistance” for its Iron Dome missile defense program, another installment of countless billions sent from the United States to intensify a one-sided war against the Palestinian people. The Iron Dome system intercepts short range rockets (launched from 2.5 to 43 miles) through the joint work of the IDF, Israeli contractors, and U.S. weapons manufacturers like Raytheon. Radar batteries...

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The Untouchables: The Sexual Predators Within America’s Power Elite

The Untouchables: The Sexual Predators Within America’s Power Elite

by | Jul 23, 2025 |

“Now by coming in and being part of the cover-up, the Trump administration has become part of it.”—Alex Jones, InfoWars Once again, the American police state is choosing to protect predators, not victims. Jeffrey Epstein—the hedge fund billionaire/convicted serial pedophile and sex trafficker—may be dead, but the machinery that empowered and protected him is still very much alive. You see, the Epstein case was never just about Epstein—it was about the entire edifice of power that shields the...

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Get Ready for a Big Foreign Crisis

Get Ready for a Big Foreign Crisis

by | Jul 23, 2025 |

With President Trump’s MAGA supporters in full rebellion over his refusal to release all the records relating to the Jeffrey Epstein pedophilia investigation, get ready for a big crisis in foreign affairs designed to distract attention from the Epstein scandal. It certainly wouldn’t be the first time a ruler engaged in such a strategy. In fact, it’s a time-honored way to get people to set aside their rebellion and instead “rally ’round the flag.” Consider the immortal words of James Madison,...

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Did Trump Expose the DC Sham on Waste and Fraud?

Did Trump Expose the DC Sham on Waste and Fraud?

by | Jul 22, 2025 |

On January 24, President Trump fired 17 inspector generals working for a wide array of federal agencies. Trump’s action jolted Washington because most of those officials could supposedly only be removed for cause — specific misconduct or other abuses. Trump also scorned the federal law requiring giving Congress 30-days notice before terminating such officials.  Some of the inspector generals that Trump axed had done good work exposing government abuses while others had defaulted to the lap dog...

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Not Knowing The ‘Enemy’

Not Knowing The ‘Enemy’

by | Jul 22, 2025 |

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. Sun Tzu, Art of War, III.18 I am always amazed how little western governments are aware of their own (lack of) capabilities as well as of the nature and capabilities of their 'enemies'. They tend to not know the basic economic...

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Nobody for Fed Chairman

America’s Syrian Civil War

by | Jul 21, 2025 |

As Syria descends into full-scale civil war, with more than a thousand people killed in just the last few days, it may be a good time to remember the phrase, “Assad must go.” That was the slogan the regime-changers rolled out some 14 years ago during the “Arab Spring” that was supposed to usher liberal democracies into power throughout the region. From Tunisia to Egypt to Libya and on to Syria, the plan was to remake the Middle East according to the will of Washington’s “master planners.” The...

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The CIA Initiated an Intelligence and Terrorist War on Russia Based on a Lie

The CIA Initiated an Intelligence and Terrorist War on Russia Based on a Lie

by | Jul 21, 2025 |

Foreign Policy published an article last week by Tim Weiner, author of Legacy of Ashes, with the title, When the Threat Is Inside the White House: What CIA insiders make of the MAGA moles and toadies now in charge of U.S. national security. While the intent of the article is to paint Trump and his team as a bunch of Russian toadies, Weiner unwittingly paints a picture of the CIA’s leadership as biased operators with no understanding of Russia… They still think they are...

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What’s Going On In the ‘Honeypot?’

What’s Going On In the ‘Honeypot?’

by | Jul 19, 2025 |

What goes on in Washington is underappreciated for those of us who like a bit of humor mixed in with our politics. This past week we have been treated to a whole series of malapropisms coming out of the mouth of President Donald Trump, including the questioning of the president of Liberia Joseph Boakai by Trump over how he speaks such excellent English. “Such good English,” Trump said. “Where did you learn to speak so beautifully? In Liberia? That’s very interesting. Where were you...

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Just Six US House Members Vote Against Sending Israel Another Half Billion Dollars in Military Aid

Just Six US House Members Vote Against Sending Israel Another Half Billion Dollars in Military Aid

by | Jul 18, 2025 |

Special interests are continually finagling to gain more support from the United States government that oversees a vast trove of money and power. A vote just after midnight Friday morning in the US House of Representatives suggests that the government of Israel is at the top of the heap of special interests when it comes to being able to extract benefits from the US with very widespread support from American legislators. The vote was on an amendment Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) offered...

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