It will be a few weeks before the fallout of the Trump guilty verdict can be properly assessed. But what won’t change are the fundamental problems facing President Biden’s re-election campaign. Of course, Team Biden remains in the denial stage about “misinformed” voters, unfair media and the whole typical menu of excuses …
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Immigration group to the press: It’s the mass deportations, stupid
A top immigration advocacy group is pushing the press to focus immigration coverage on former President Trump’s promise of mass deportations, a series of proposals they say would wreak havoc on immigrant communities and the economy in general. In a memo to the country’s editorial boards, America’s Voice Executive Director …
Read More »Criminalizing people living in the street doesn’t work
A Los Angeles construction worker injured his back, leaving him unable to work. He and his wife lost their home and ended up living outdoors. They diligently signed up for lists to get subsidized housing and waited for years with no progress. The police repeatedly would wake them early in …
Read More »The lies and duplicity of 2024 echo history’s lowest presidential campaigns
It was a vicious campaign. The Republican challenger to the incumbent Democratic president hurled scurrilous accusations that he was conspiring with others to alter the election outcome. No, this was not 2024, but the campaign of 1940. The Republican nominee for president that year, Wendell Willkie, accused Franklin D. Roosevelt …
Read More »US Must Accept Spheres of Influence To Preserve Peace
U.S. leaders once understood and accepted that strong powers would insist on a security zone and broad sphere of influence in their immediate geographic region. An especially persistent feature of international affairs has been the existence of spheres of influence. Major powers routinely seek to shape the international system to …
Read More »Government’s addiction to contractors is creating a data crisis
Even as artificial intelligence is booming and there will be reportedly 200 zettabytes of data in the world, “we are in another crisis of research access to data,” a former reporter said at Harvard this May. The culprit in that crisis is the double-headed monster of government and the private sector. The effects …
Read More »ON ROCKIN’ IN THE FREE WORLD
The US Celebrates $95.3 Billion In Military Funding For Israel, Taiwan, Ukraine, And The US. We unpack the US Indo-Pacific strategy and what’s at stake. On the evening of 14 May, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken climbed onstage at Barman Dictat in Kyiv, Ukraine, to pick up an electric …
Read More »Are Workers Just Too Stupid to Understand Inflation?
It might be wise to stop hyping how wonderful the economy is for working people who know one thing better than any so-called expert: the economic strain they and their families feel each day. The pundits are at it again, fretting over the latest poll numbers showing that President Biden is losing …
Read More »The American Empire Is Crumbling Under Its Debt
This is part 3 of Washington DC: The Unaffordable and Unnecessary War Capital of the World. Read part 1 and part 2. The pivot from Republic to Empire circa 1949 remains evident even today – fully one-third of a century after the Cold War ended and the Soviet Empire was swept into the …
Read More »The Vietnamization of Ukraine
As Ukraine’s defeat in the war moves closer, the neocons are desperate to draw the US further into the fight. Over the weekend, former US State Department official Victoria Nuland told ABC News that the US must help facilitate Ukrainian missile attacks deep inside Russian territory. The Biden Administration has …
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