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Trump Administration Lobbying Hard for Sweeping Surveillance Law
Photo: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images TRUMP ADMINISTRATION LOBBYING HARD FOR SWEEPING SURVEILLANCE LAW THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is pushing hard for the reauthorization of a key 2008 surveillance law — section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, known as FISA — three months before it sunsets in December. To persuade senators to reauthorize the law in full, […]
North Korea Claims 5 Million New Soldiers Enlisted Ahead Of “Imminent Provocation”
North Korea Claims 5 Million New Soldiers Enlisted Ahead Of “Imminent Provocation” In what is probably a “slightly” exaggerated figure, North Korea claimed on Thursday that some 4.7 million students and workers have volunteered to join or re-enlist in the North Korean army since Kim Jong Un called Donald Trump a “dotard” and vowed to […]
Trump on the Warpath
Trump on the Warpath The US suffers from an arrogance of military power disconnected from today’s geopolitical realities. The US is on this path again, heading for a collision with a nuclear-armed adversary, and it will remain on it unless other countries, other American leaders, and public opinion block the way. NEW YORK – Fifteen […]
Don’t Become a Right-Wing Snowflake
Don’t Become a Right-Wing Snowflake But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg…Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. Give a loose rein to them, they will support the true religion by […]
North Korea is the Most Predictable Regime on Earth. The Real Threat is the Erratic U.S. Government.
Photo: Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Images NORTH KOREA IS THE MOST PREDICTABLE REGIME ON EARTH. THE REAL THREAT IS THE ERRATIC U.S. GOVERNMENT. THE NUCLEAR SHOUTING between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un often seems like a maddening version of whack-a-crazy-mole, in which an unhinged comment by one of them is hastily followed by […]
In Donald Trump’s Washington, The House Always Wins
In Donald Trump’s Washington, The House Always Wins It drove me crazy throughout the 2016 presidential campaign. Hillary Clinton (with all those high-priced consultants and aides) just kept pounding away at Donald Trump’s personality, which his many followers adored, and those unreleased tax returns of his, even though Americans have always loved hucksters capable of […]
North Korea Says “Trump Declared War”, Threatens To Shoot Down US Jets
North Korea Says “Trump Declared War”, Threatens To Shoot Down US Jets Having raged at President Trump’s “suicide mission” on Saturday, North Korea’s foreign minister Ri Yong Ho called for an impromptu press conference this morning following President Trump’s extended travel ban, in which the diplomat said that Trump’s recent tweet that DPRK’s leadership would […]
Barbarism and Shame: Why the US Refuses a Korea Peace Treaty
Barbarism and Shame: Why the US Refuses a Korea Peace Treaty The Korean crisis is a powerful lens on American barbarism, past and present. Despite Washington’s self-righteousness and pretensions of virtue, the modern history of Korea is an especially powerful lesson that destroys the American national mythology. Listening to President Trump’s conceited rhetoric about wiping […]
Trump — American Gaullist
Trump — American Gaullist If a U.S. president calls an adversary “Rocket Man … on a mission to suicide,” and warns his nation may be “totally destroyed,” other ideas in his speech will tend to get lost. Which is unfortunate. For buried in Donald Trump’s address is a clarion call to reject transnationalism and to […]
Trump To Impose More Sanctions On North Korea Today
Trump To Impose More Sanctions On North Korea Today Update: According to Bloomberg, Trump won’t be declaring war (yet), and instead the announcement is sanctions related. TRUMP’S N. KOREA ANNOUNCEMENT TO BE SANCTIONS-RELATED: OFFICIAL TRUMP SAYS `WE WILL BE PUTTING MORE SANCTIONS ON NORTH KOREA” * * * Following yesterday’s anticlimatic Rex Tillerson press conference […]
Presidential Bomb Threats at the UN
Presidential Bomb Threats at the UN Photo by Nathaniel St. Clair Donald Trump denounced North Korea and its president Kim Jong-un as “depraved” before the United Nations Sept. 19, saying the nation “threatens the entire world with unthinkable loss of life.” Of course, North Korea can barely feed itself, and yet has to defend itself […]
Trump’s China-Sanctions Madness Imperils the Dollar
Trump’s China-Sanctions Madness Imperils the Dollar Last week US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin warned the US will impose new sanctions on China if it doesn’t conform to UN sanctions on North Korea: “If China doesn’t follow these sanctions, we will put additional sanctions on them and prevent them from accessing the U.S. and international dollar […]
Venezuela Bankrupt? Caracas Fails To Make Sept 15 Interest Payment
Venezuela Bankrupt? Caracas Fails To Make Sept 15 Interest Payment Exactly one week ago, we wrote that a “Venezuelan default is only a matter of time”. We said that “while debt servicing has been a government priority, declining external liquidity and a deteriorating domestic situation (three-digit hyperinflation, shortages, and a political crisis between the government […]
More Thoughts on Trump’s UN Declaration of War Against Iran and North Korea
More Thoughts on Trump’s UN Declaration of War Against Iran and North Korea Trump’s UN speech makes it clear that Trump’s presidency, in terms of his campaign promise to remove Washington from the “policeman of the world” role, exit the Middle East, and repair the damaged relations with Russia, is over. The CIA and […]
Trump Falls in Line with Interventionism
Trump Falls in Line with Interventionism Exclusive: President Trump’s U.N. speech showed that despite his America First rhetoric, his policies are virtually the same as the neocon strategies of George W. Bush and liberal interventionism of Barack Obama, says Robert Parry. In discussing President Trump, there is always the soft prejudice of low expectations – […]
