By freezing enforcement of the FCPA, he risks reopening the door for more corruption in the domestic arms industry On February 10, President Trump issued an executive order that directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to pause the enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. The FCPA was the first law in modern history to …

The massive curbs on workers’ rights that have occurred during the first month of the Trump administration signal it’s likely that plenty more will follow during his tenure in office. Only a month into his second term as president, Donald Trump is well underway toward destroying crucial rights of American workers. Currently, …

“Oh, what a tangled web we weave with our own hands when we begin to lie.” ~ Sir Walter Scott 1771-1832 in his famous poem “Marmion” This paper aims to illuminate the multiple circumstances that Western thought has produced before and after the two world wars, so that we can discover what happened, …

Trump’s attempt to incite a coup in 2021 and his subsequent victory in the 2024 presidential election speak volumes of the democratic decline in the United States. We must admit exactly where we are at this point in time. Over the past few years, there has been an alarming surge of …

The Trump team seems to be repeating the same mistakes and may actually end up harming national security rather than helping it. “Guys and gals of my generation have spent decades in foreign countries guarding other people’s borders. It’s about time we secure our own,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said during …

Let’s briefly retrace one of the fundamental steps in reaching the current status quo: the dissolution of the order that reigned in Europe. First rule, conquer The choice to promote a global order dominated by the collective hegemony of the West after the Cold War had profound consequences for European …

How serious is Trump’s Orwellian effort? Can it really succeed in reshaping public discourse? We can hope not. But can we be sure? “If we feel that there are lies being pushed by outlets in this room, we are going to hold those lies accountable. And it is a fact …

President Trump says he wants to work with China and Russia on the issue of “slowing down, stopping and reducing nuclear weapons.” Trump went on to declare that “there’s no reason for us to be building brand-new nuclear weapons…We already have so many you can destroy the world 50 times …

Over $21 trillion were blown on wars. Think what alternative uses for those trillions might have been, and weep. Dedication: to the Declaration of Independence; it is worth re-reading. What do we have to show for more than 20 years of war and trillions of dollars spent, since that prophetic …

Though Trump may not make America great again, he will go a very long way in retaining America’s role as the world’s top thug. The middle of nowhere is the best place from which to begin understanding Trump’s game plan for global domination. Well, not quite the middle of nowhere …