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Reagan Adviser: Why Trump Won’t Cut Taxes
Reagan Adviser: Why Trump Won’t Cut Taxes The mules of Wall Street were back at it again, buying the dips after the overnight whoosh downward in the futures market. Apparently, it will take an actual two-by-four between the eyes to break a habit that has been working for 96 months now since the March 2009 […]
Did The EPA Just Go Rogue Again
Did The EPA Just Go Rogue Again In late January, days after Donald Trump became president, various government workers employed by the EPA “defied” the president with what at the time appeared to be rogue twitter accounts emerging from the environemntal agency, most notably the Badlands National Park which slammed Trump’s climate change proposal. “Today, […]
Is George Soros Behind This Plot to Topple Trump?
Is George Soros Behind This Plot to Topple Trump? The Establishment is setting up Donald Trump. The mainstream media hates him. Hollywood hates him. The “Intellectual Yet Idiot” academia class hates him. Most critically, the CIA hates him. So does the rest of the Deep State, or the permanently entrenched “national security” bureaucracy. They did […]
The Overlapping Crises Are Coming, Regardless of Who’s in Power
The Overlapping Crises Are Coming, Regardless of Who’s in Power No leader can reverse the dynamics of mutually reinforcing crises. Commentators seem split into three camps: those who see Trump as a manifestation of smouldering social/economic ills, those who see Trump and his supporters as the cause of those ills, and those who see Trump […]
Why Free Trade is Officially Dead
WHY FREE TRADE IS OFFICIALLY DEAD G20 Finance ministers meeting in Baden Baden last weekend agreed, on America’s insistence, to drop the long-standing commitment to free trade from the final communiqué. It is hard to know to what extent America’s position is driven by her autarkic view on world trade, or to what extent it […]
Start Dealing
Start Dealing Empires have one historical constant: they fail. President Trump likes deals and campaigned on his deal-making prowess. Negotiation requires parties who respect each other enough to bargain in good faith. It is a lost art in US foreign policy, replaced by imperatives: we tell you what to do and you do it. This […]
Loose Cannon
LOOSE CANNON Back in the days of sword and sail, warships mounted heavy cannon on their decks in such a way as to maximize their range of fire. Out of necessity, this meant the cannon were not permanently fixed in place and needed to be properly lashed to the deck during high seas or violent […]
Trump Administration Moves to Approve New Arms Sales to Saudi Arabian War Criminals
Trump Administration Moves to Approve New Arms Sales to Saudi Arabian War Criminals This week’s episode of “Empire Gone Wild” features our freshly inaugurated dear leader, Donald Trump, who appears determined to enthusiastically continue the Obama administration’s policy of recklessly arming Saudi war criminals. First, here’s a little background from The Washington Post: The State Department has […]
The Real Nuclear Threat
The Real Nuclear Threat On January 26, 2017 the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board has moved up its Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to metaphorical midnight, and it now stands at just 2.5 minutes to midnight. Why did the Board decide to make this change? Essentially, “because Donald Trump.” In other news, […]
Welcome to Totalitarian America, President Trump!
Welcome to Totalitarian America, President Trump! Trump vs. the Deep State If there had been any doubt that the land of the free and home of the brave is now a totalitarian society, the revelations that its Chief Executive Officer has been spied upon while campaigning for that office and during his brief tenure as […]
Fresh Doubts about Russian ‘Hacking’
Fresh Doubts about Russian ‘Hacking’ Exclusive: The gauzy allegations of Russia “hacking” the Democrats to elect Donald Trump just got hazier with WikiLeaks’ new revelations about CIA cyber-spying and the capability to pin the blame on others, reports Robert Parry. WikiLeaks’ disclosure of documents revealing CIA cyber-spying capabilities underscores why much more skepticism should have been applied to […]
Republican insider: Trump is creating Deep State 2.0, but it might crash the economy (EXCLUSIVE)
Republican insider: Trump is creating Deep State 2.0, but it might crash the economy (EXCLUSIVE) Former GOP staffer says American president is a ‘mutation’ of unaccountable oligarchy pulling the strings of Democrats and Republicans alike Mike Lofgren is a former Republican Congressional aide who spent 28 years as a Congressional staff member before retiring in […]
A Mess 30 Years in the Making
A Mess 30 Years in the Making Promises of Slop “We have assembled a best-in-class team of policy advisors to drive President Trump’s bold plan for job creation and economic growth.” – Gary Cohn, Chief Economic Advisor to President Trump The art and science of spending other people’s money is not an occupation suited to […]
