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This Is What Tyranny Looks Like Now: No Crowns. No Coups. Just Unchecked Power.
In January 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a pamphlet that gave voice to the discontent of a nation struggling to free itself from a tyrannical ruler who believed power flowed from his own will rather than the consent of the governed. Paine’s...
The Rubicon crossed – Team Trump’s nihilistic anti-values paradigm
So, finally an act of unvarnished predatory action by Trump and his team – the abduction of President Maduro in a lightning night-time military strike – has launched 2026 into a pivotal moment. A pivotal moment not just for Latin America, but for global politics. The...
Will Trump Use US Military For Iran ‘Regime Change’ Operation?
The CIA/Mossad Operation to Spark a Color Revolution in Iran has Failed
The CIA/Mossad plan to spark a color revolution in Iran, which has attracted global attention and a tsunami of propaganda pieces portraying the Iranian protests as a massive, unstoppable popular movement, has failed. Yes, protests continue in some parts of the...
What Does Venezuela Have to Do with Israel?
It is interesting to observe how United States foreign policy, such as it is, often appears to have an Israeli back story that explains at least in part how Donald Trump’s mindless aggression against much of the world is driven by Zionist imperatives rather than...
When it Comes to Venezuelan Oil, Trump is Drilling a Dry Hole
I was wrong. I believed that controlling Venezuelan oil was the primary objective behind Donald Trump’s decision to order the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro. After reviewing the actual numbers it is clear that the belief that Venezuelan oil would...
Empire-Mania: Trump Wants $1.5 Trillion Military Budget
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:...
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