“The job of the president, goes the message from all the insiders, is to PRETEND to be in charge but not actually do anything meaningful.” —Jeffrey Tucker CBS’s 60-Minutes show was at it again Sunday night in the most prime primetime weekend news slot on the old broadcast spectrum — Sunday at 7:00, the power-hour of national […]
Rep. Massie was the only Republican to vote against the budget plan, which has been backed by President Trump House Republicans on Tuesday passed a budget blueprint that would raise military spending by $100 billion, a plan backed by President Trump despite his suggestions that Pentagon spending could be cut. The budget plan also extends $4.5 trillion in […]
There is history worth remembering as Trump is lauded in certain circles on the so-called “right” and “left” as a peacemaker with Russia over the US/NATO proxy war against Russia via Ukraine: President Richard Nixon, who ran as the peace candidate in 1968 with a “secret plan” for peace in Vietnam that was actually a […]
Phase one of the deal is due to expire this Saturday The Gaza hostage and ceasefire deal is on the “brink of collapse” due to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hardening his stance, an Israeli source has told the Israeli news site Walla, according to The Times of Israel. Netanyahu has delayed the release of over 600 Palestinians who were […]
QUESTION: You said that the US was going to invade Iran after Iraq. Was that classified? I never heard of that. You also said that the Neocons pulled off a coup and seized control of American foreign policy, and the press prints their narrative. I respect your sources, which appear to be remarkable. Lira was the […]
The Trump administration, pushed by the Department of Government Efficiency and deployed by the Office of Personnel Management, has sent another email to all federal employees with a normal request to present five tasks accomplished in the last week. It’s an easy task. It takes 5 minutes. In the service industry, this is entirely normal, […]
I was asking this question recently when the nightmare of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians greatly disturbed my reflections and took me in another writerly direction. Now I wish to return to this matter that seems perpetually pertinent, a pertinence, of course, not unconnected to the dead in Gaza, Ukraine, and everywhere else. There are […]
The Ukrainian leader said President Biden and Congress agreed to provide aid to Ukraine as grants, not loans On Sunday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pushed back on the terms of the rare earth minerals deal that the Trump administration wants him to sign, insisting Ukraine was not in debt to the US. President Trump has previously said […]
Israeli tanks are now operating in the occupied West Bank for the first time since 2002 Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Sunday that the Israeli military has forcibly displaced 40,000 Palestinians in the northern occupied West Bank and that they couldn’t return home as the IDF will be operating in the area over the next year, raising fears of a […]
Washington’s 180 degree turn on its previous official UN position regarding the conflict in Ukraine marks a major break from its European allies. The U.S. UN vote has sent tremors of this seismic shift and also rocked the Zelensky regime in Kiev amidst the Russia-Ukraine War. With the Trump administration making concerted moves to repair […]