The ‘Vandenberg Coalition’ wants Trump to prioritize Israel and maintain Iran as enemy number one A leading neoconservative for most of the last half century has released a comprehensive series of recommendations on Middle East policy for the new Trump administration nearly all of which are ideas that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and …
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A Republic of Spies
In 2021, to his credit, President Joe Biden warned the American public against the dangers of zero-click spyware manufactured by an Israeli corporation. Zero-click is unwanted software that can expose the entire contents of one’s mobile or desktop device to prying eyes without tricking one into clicking on to a …
Read More »Trump’s Tariff Threats Could Destabilize The Global Economy
Trump’s protectionist policies threaten to radically unbalance the balance of payments and exchange rates throughout the world. They are preventing debtor countries from earning the dollars needed to pay their foreign debts. This makes a financial rupture inevitable. The 1940s saw a series of movies with Bing Crosby and Bob …
Read More »American Voters Need to Care About Foreign Policy Again
Foreign policy is not truly foreign; it remains a domestic issue, not some abstract concept that does not affect the average American’s everyday life. Voters do not realize this, but they need to. At the start of 2024, in an AP-NORC poll, only 4 out of 10 Americans mentioned a foreign policy …
Read More »To Confront Oligarchy, Build Power At The Community Level
Wrong way world. A consistent theme through my life has been to understand our world, to assemble a comprehensive picture the best I can, respecting the world’s boggling complexity and the limits of any one mind to grasp it all. What has long been clear to me is that our …
Read More »2025 – Endless Chaos Towards a One World Government or Vicious Confusion? Towards a One World Tyranny.
Aren’t we all so happy as chaos is upon us – planned chaos for confusion and destruction, and for those who see through it, evoking a smile? It is like a run for the end game that will never end and they will never reach. Chaos is exacerbated by unidentified …
Read More »Spending 5% of GDP on military now would be absolutely nuts
The system cannot accommodate such growth, and even more, it’s not necessary to defend the country — unless Washington wants WWIII As a brand new Congress and administration settles in, the groundwork is being laid for a historic increase in military spending that could lead to catastrophic implications for the …
Read More »‘We Must End Citizens United,’ Progressives Say as Ruling Turns 15 Amid ‘Growing Oligarchy’
“As long as Citizens United remains the law of the land, our democracy will remain broken,” said one campaigner. As President Donald Trump triumphantly returned to the White House thanks in part to a tsunami of campaign cash from oligarchs and corporate interests, democracy defenders on Tuesday marked the 15th anniversary of the U.S. …
Read More »Alarm Bells Sound as Trump Gets to Work on ‘Extreme Authoritarian Agenda’
“Trump isn’t king, but if Congress capitulates, he could be,” warned the leaders of Popular Democracy. Since U.S. President Trump’s return to office on Monday—at an inauguration ceremony full of American oligarchs—as the Republican has issued a flurry of executive orders and other actions, progressive leaders and organizers have expressed alarm …
Read More »How the US Uses and Abuses Latin America
On January 10, 2025, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) posted a $25 million reward (up from a paltry $15 million) for information leading to the arrest of “former” Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and associates, just as he was taking the oath of office in Caracas for his third term as President. Maduro had …
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