Trump
A Lawless Presidency
The United States invasion of Venezuela and kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro, the domestically recognized Venezuelan president, violated the US Constitution and international law. The Constitution makes clear that only Congress can authorize a foreign invasion. In the...
One Down, Two to Go. The US Has Invaded Venezuela to ‘Fight Drugs.’ Are Colombia and Mexico Next?
On Saturday, United States President Donald Trump held a press conference to boast about his sending the US military hours earlier to bring destruction in Venezuela and drag off the leader of the nation’s government to America for incarceration and prosecution. It was...
NY Times Expose: CIA Fights Russia – Trump’s Peace Deal Runs on Illusion
Today the NY Times published a long piece on the relations between the Trump administration and the government of Ukraine. The Separation: Inside the Unraveling U.S.-Ukraine Partnership (archived) – NY Times, Dec 30 2025 There is a lot of gossip...
Trump Caves To Bibi – Agrees To Backstop New Israeli War On Iran
Americans who Love their Country should adopt America First as their New Year’s Resolution
Gary Heavin and Mike Adams discuss MAGA divided between Israel First and America First. It is distressing, but true, that Israel not only controls America’s media and publishing, entertainment, financial sector, Middle East foreign policy, but also the Republican...
Trump and Netanyahu Meet Again
As has been reported, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will yet again be in Washington on Monday December 29th. It is a visit that initial media reports claimed had been requested by Trump, which would underline the value of the relationship to the US...
Trump Morphs From Asset to Liability for Israel
Leading Israeli commentator, Anna Barsky, in Ma’ariv (in Hebrew) writes: “Let [Trump’s] plan in Gaza – fail.” An Israeli ‘waiting ploy’ is being formulated: not to hurl out a frontal rejection … [but rather] to bet that reality in the region will take its...
US Seizes Tanker Carrying Chinese Oil…Beijing Not Amused
Netanyahu Wants To Attack Iran Again, Will Lobby Trump In Mar-a-Lago Visit
Many analysts agree that the last round of fighting between Israel and Iran last June was not the final conflict the two regional powers will face. Despite President Trump having declared that the Islamic Republic's nuclear program had been completely obliterated in...
A Battered America Awaits Trump’s Next Move
President Donald Trump’s end of year speech to the American public that took place on December 17th was full of conceits over how the United States under the new regime in power is moving ahead on all fronts to benefit the American people. The reality is somewhat...
What Was Said – And Wasn’t Said – In Trump’s TV Speech
Trump’s Geo-politics: Correcting the Imperial Model & Shaping the Incoming Economic Architecture
In his speech in Riyadh in May, President Trump set out his rationale to his transactional mode of policy formulation – making peace through commerce, rather than war. The language in the 4 December US National Security Strategy (NSS) takes this several steps further:...
Gunboat Diplomacy: Trump Declares Full Naval Blockade Of Venezuela
President Trump’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ Moment
Unless President Trump reverses course, the “Lower Prices Bigger Paychecks” banner that hung behind him at his “affordability” speech this month will be remembered as being to economic policy what President George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” banner was to foreign...
President Trump’s Drug War Bad Math
You may have heard President Donald Trump declare once or more his often repeated claim that the United States government has saved the lives of 25,000 Americans each time its military has blown up a purported drug trafficking boat over the last few months in the...
‘Kill Them All’
Does anyone know where the love of God goesWhen the waves turn the minutes to hours? -- Gordon Lightfoot (1938-2023)“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” As we learn more about the events on Sept. 2, 2025, in international waters 1,500 miles from the United States, the...
Donald Trump On A Roll All Week
There is always something new and exciting coming out of Washington. Last week’s big story centered on the presumed prerogative of the United States to kill people anywhere in the world without necessarily having to make the legal or moral case that they deserved...
Summarily Murdering Venezuelan ‘Narco-Terrorists’ is Profoundly Un-American
President Trump said on Tuesday that in addition to the airstrikes on Venezuelan boats suspected of trafficking drugs to the United States, the U.S. military would begin hitting targets on land. Not only are all these strikes unconstitutional by any...
Trump Pardons Drug Smuggler, Threatens Venezuela
Trump’s South America policy is getting more ridiculous by the day. Yesterday he announced a pardon for the former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernández, who is serving a 45-year sentence for partnering with drug traffickers who had allegedly shipped...
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