America the Terrified: What Makes This Superpower So Sensitive?

America the Terrified: What Makes This Superpower So Sensitive?

They want to meet me not because I’m Mike from Kansas, because I represent the greatest nation in the history of civilization. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo 28 February 2020 I want everyone to be reminded that America remains the world’s leading light of humanitarian goodness as well amidst this global pandemic. U.S. Secretary…

Darkness in So Many Halls of Power. The Pandemic Is Being Used to Destroy Democracy

Darkness in So Many Halls of Power. The Pandemic Is Being Used to Destroy Democracy

On March 24 the White House reported Trump’s declaration that “There’s tremendous hope as we look forward and we begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel” regarding the wildfire spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Then he tweeted it on April 6 — in capital letters, of course. But to those of…

America’s Rigged Democracy: The Oligarch Takeover of America’s Political System

America’s Rigged Democracy: The Oligarch Takeover of America’s Political System

The coronavirus and related financial crisis ravaging America have revealed the country to be the dysfunctional, borderline failed state that it is. America’s dysfunction is broad in scope but almost entirely traceable to one common origin: the oligarch takeover of the economy, media, healthcare and political system. I have already reported on the first three of these, and…