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The Definition of Insanity

The Definition of Insanity

by | Sep 1, 2026 |

Albert Einstein is credited with saying, "the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." Whether he actually said it or not, the definition stands. This definition also very well describes the Trump Administration’s war with Iran. According to media reports, President Trump was cajoled by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu that this would be an “easy war,” like Venezuela. Just assassinate the Iranian leadership, he promised, and the...

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Trump’s Stolen Venezuelan Crude Oil Sent to Israel

Trump’s Stolen Venezuelan Crude Oil Sent to Israel

by | Sep 1, 2026 |

On August 29, President Trump went on social media and boasted about stealing Venezuelan oil. The theft, according to Trump, “more than doubles American oil reserves.” He said there was “no cost” to American taxpayers, although there will obviously be a huge cost to the people of Venezuela who will see little if any benefit from Trump’s plunder. Trump went so far as to claim the brazen theft will benefit the Venezuelan people. The profits are expected to enrich oil company executives...

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Trump Censorship Machine Loses Again in Court

Trump Censorship Machine Loses Again in Court

by | Sep 1, 2026 |

The Trump administration’s crusade to crush campus criticism took another wallop on Friday in a California courtroom. Federal judge Noël Wise ruled that the Trump administration’s “ideological-deportation policy” brazenly violated the US Constitution. The Stanford Daily—one of the best-known college student newspapers in the nation—sued the Trump administration for changing its “immigration policy and pattern of enforcement, namely by arresting, detaining, and deporting students...

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The CIA’s John Ratcliffe Goes to Moscow

The CIA’s John Ratcliffe Goes to Moscow

by | Aug 31, 2026 |

Last Monday the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Director (DCI) John Ratcliffe and his retinue boarded a US Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport plane at Joint Base Andrews airfield in Maryland, stopped presumably to refuel at the Riga airport in NATO member Latvia, and then flew on to land at Vnukovo International Airport, one of the four airports that serve the Russian capitol Moscow. The plane touched down on Tuesday at 9 am local time. The trip had been unannounced and its purpose was...

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Trump Must Not Let Washington’s Korea Hawks Intimidate Him Again

Trump Must Not Let Washington’s Korea Hawks Intimidate Him Again

by | Aug 29, 2026 |

One of the great foreign policy disappointments of Donald Trump’s first term was the failure to advance his initial promising initiative to begin normalizing relations with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).  Trump had abandoned the threats and bluster toward Pyongyang that marked his early months in office.  Instead, he moved to open a personal dialogue with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and facilitate productive negotiations on several important issues. ...

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The Bunker State: The Government Will Survive, but Will the Constitution?

The Bunker State: The Government Will Survive, but Will the Constitution?

by | Aug 28, 2026 |

What began publicly as Donald Trump’s lavish, taxpayer-funded vision of a gilded White House ballroom is now being justified by the administration—in and out of court—as a matter of national security. To President Trump, it seems, a ballroom by any other name is a bunker. And what a bunker it is. Court documents indicate the massive subterranean military complex being constructed five stories beneath the White House grounds will include bomb shelters, a hospital, “top...

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Welcome Home Stalin

Welcome Home Stalin

by | Aug 27, 2026 |

I’ve been all over the world and have seen both its good and sordid countries. One of the best run, most decent and honest nations I’ve seen is Canada. As George Bernard Shaw noted, Canada is a wonderful country, but it has nine months of winter and three months of fall. It has vast forests, beautiful lakes, lots of beautiful animals and birds, lavish natural resources, and people, as I’ve found, who are the kindest, most honest and thoughtful in the world. As an American, I have always...

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Twilight’s Last Gleaming

Twilight’s Last Gleaming

by | Aug 27, 2026 |

There is a point in the decline of republics when the problem is no longer that government breaks its own laws. Governments will always behave unlawfully. The deeper problem comes when the constitutional machinery designed to prevent those acts stops functioning -- when spending becomes detached from arithmetic, presidential power becomes detached from law, and Congress and the courts become detached from the Constitution. That’s where America is today. The fiscal warning could hardly be...

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Marcus Licinius Trump

Marcus Licinius Trump

by | Aug 27, 2026 |

Even the richest man in Rome was relegated to the shadows of his contemporaries. Before allying with Pompey and Caeser to form the First Triumvirate, Marcus Licinius Crassus amassed his wealth through shady real estate deals. Often bargaining for pennies on the dollar (or asses on the sestertius), victims of house fires were presented with the choice to sell quickly or watch their future go up in flames. Before, of course, Crassus sent in his private fire brigade to extinguish the blaze lest...

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More Military Murders on the High Seas

More Military Murders on the High Seas

by | Aug 26, 2026 |

The US military has just announced that it has carried out two more murders on the high seas near South America. This now brings the military’s high-seas murders to more than 200 people. Mind you, in its announcement, the military did not use the term “murder.” The announcement stated that the military is simply enforcing the US drug war. But make no mistake about it: What the military is doing is engaging in state-sponsored murder, which is ordinarily a felony offense. Will the military...

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All It Takes Is One Crack In The Lie We’ve Been Sold

All It Takes Is One Crack In The Lie We’ve Been Sold

by | Aug 26, 2026 |

I saw a clip going around from the Netflix series “1899” where a woman discovers a crack in the screen of what she had taken to be her world, causing her entire understanding of reality to crumble before her eyes. Someone had captioned the clip, “Every awakening begins with a fracture in the lie.” Yeah. It does tend to happen like that. You start pulling on one thread and then the whole thing unravels. Maybe you start with the Iraq war lies. Maybe 9/11. These days for a lot of folks...

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Trump Mulls Raising the Stakes to Force Iranian Capitulation

Trump Mulls Raising the Stakes to Force Iranian Capitulation

by | Aug 25, 2026 |

The 60-day MoU has expired. The framework of Iranian pre-conditions for any start to negotiations nonetheless lingers on in its comatose state. Instead of the endlessly touted “Iran deal,” the picture is almost the complete opposite of what President Trump sought to create when he adopted the MoU framework (even if it is not clear whether he really intended to pursue the framework through to some sort of real agreement, or whether the framework was simply a device that Trump sought to leverage...

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Sanctioning the Dollar Iran Already Left: Why Bessent’s ‘Economic D-Day’ Is Toothless

Sanctioning the Dollar Iran Already Left: Why Bessent’s ‘Economic D-Day’ Is Toothless

by | Aug 25, 2026 |

There was one sentence in Scott Bessent’s Monday sanctions announcement that gave the whole game away. Anyone who launders money for the Iranian regime, the Treasury Secretary warned, “will be removed from the US dollar system.” He meant it as a threat of annihilation. It is, instead, a confession of the policy’s central weakness. The entire architecture of what Bessent has branded “Operation Economic Outcast” rests on a single assumption — that Iran and its trading partners need the U.S....

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The Gloves Are Off: ICE, Electric Shock Weapons and Secret Police

The Gloves Are Off: ICE, Electric Shock Weapons and Secret Police

by | Aug 24, 2026 |

This is what comes of giving a lawless agency unlimited funds to build detention centers, terrorize communities, and act as a secret police force. Anything goes. Masked raids. Unmarked vehicles. Warrantless arrests. Racial profiling. Sweeping surveillance. Detention camps. Excessive force. Citizens dragged off the streets. Protesters targeted. Congressional oversight obstructed. Now add electric shock gloves to the arsenal. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing...

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Dumb and Dumber

Dumb and Dumber

by | Aug 24, 2026 |

As I have observed in the past, it is possible to be entertained nearly every week by the antics of President Donald J Trump, though one’s amusement often changes to annoyance or even to disgust when the consequences of the behavior become clear. To be sure, it would be difficult to top the just surfaced account of February’s chickenhawk parade involving the Air Force One plane-switching in Ankara after a NATO meeting. It was unparalleled for its sheer me-first Trumpean disrespect for the poor...

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The Definition of Insanity

One Bad Week

by | Aug 24, 2026 |

It took around two hundred years for US government debt to reach one trillion dollars. By contrast, in less than half a year a trillion was added to bring the debt total to the 40 trillion dollars it reached last week. According to the Peterson Foundation, US government debt is on a path to reach 50 trillion dollars within the next six years. Despite promising to reduce government spending in all three of his presidential campaigns, President Trump, with the assistance of congressional...

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