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June 17, 2020

Emperor Trump Now Stands Partially Naked

A child exposing the nakedness of the emperor by speaking truth to power? Not these days. More than half of the United States — not just liberals and the left but also the mainstream media and some Republicans — has been shouting at Emperor Trump for months on end that he has no clothes. These declarations have fallen on deaf...

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March 27, 2019

Empire of Chaos in Hybrid War Overdrive

Is this the Age of Anxiety? The Age of Stupidity? The Age of Hybrid War? Or all of the above? As right populism learns to use algorithms, artificial intelligence (AI) and media convergence, the Empire of Chaos, in parallel, is unleashing all-out hybrid and semiotic war. Dick Cheney’s Global War on Terror (GWOT) is back, metastasized as a hybrid mongrel....

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February 10, 2019

Has Donald Trump Been Forced To Give Up?

Since the mid-term elections on 6 November 2018, President Trump has been under extreme pressure. Federal administrations have been closed since 22 December (the shutdown), because of parliamentary opposition to a budget proposition which included the financing for a Wall at the Mexican frontier. The crisis only came to an end 35 days later, on 25 January 2019, when President...

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February 10, 2019

Pussy John Bolton and His Codpiece Mustache

American government has become a collection of sordid and dangerous clowns. It was not always thus. Until Bush II, those governing were never lunatics. Eisenhower, Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Obama, Clinton had their defects, were sometimes corrupt, and could be disagreed with on many grounds. They weren’t crazy. Today’s administration would seem unwholesome in a New York bus station at...

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February 2, 2019

Trump vs. the Spy Chiefs: Who's Right?

To manifest his opposition to President Donald Trump’s decision to pull all 2,000 U.S. troops out of Syria, and half of the 14,000 in Afghanistan, Gen. James Mattis went public and resigned as secretary of defense. Now Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, in public testimony to Congress, has contradicted Trump about the threats that face the nation. Contrary to...

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January 16, 2019

The US Media has Lost One of Its Sanest Voices on Military Matters

I hate television “experts”, the infamous “analysts” who know all – and support all – about the military, the televisual ex-generals with vain presidential ambitions and the infamous American “think tank” personnel whose right-wing, pro-Israeli beliefs are carefully shielded from viewers by the US networks who employ them. I always characterise the antiseptic and pseudo-academic institutions to which they belong...

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December 25, 2018

Was Jim Mattis the Last ‘Adult’ in Trump’s Room?

The idea Mattis was the “adult in the room,” the moral and intellectual restraint on Trump’s evil wishes, is tired. We’ve been recycling that one for two years and more now, as various “adults” were christened as such and rose and fell in the eyes of the media — Flynn, McMaster, Tillerson, Kelly, and now Mattis (the media regards Pompeo...

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December 25, 2018

Send the Mad Dog to the Corporate Kennel

Outgoing Defense Secretary Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis was famous for quipping, “It’s fun to shoot some people.” It remains a supreme irony that Mattis was widely considered the only “adult in the room” in the Trump administration. Compared to whom? John Bolton, the rabid neocon serving as national security adviser? That would be the epitome of “condemning with faint...

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Emperor Trump Now Stands Partially Naked

Empire of Chaos in Hybrid War Overdrive

Has Donald Trump Been Forced To Give Up?

Pussy John Bolton and His Codpiece Mustache

Trump vs. the Spy Chiefs: Who's Right?

The US Media has Lost One of Its Sanest Voices on Military Matters

Was Jim Mattis the Last ‘Adult’ in Trump’s Room?

Send the Mad Dog to the Corporate Kennel