Bill Bonner: Trump’s Not Like Ike
"Was it General Eisenhower who saw more clearly than any of us?"
A Wider World of War: U.S. Special Forces Deployed to 149 Countries in 2017
"It’s a jump of nearly 150% from the last days of George W. Bush’s White House."
A Year Later, A Veteran Still Sits In Jail, Denied Bail For Leaking Now-Public Docs
"The first leak case of the Trump era, the first head on a pike."
Trump and the Deep State: Is Everyone Getting It Wrong?
"One side claims the Deep State is a figment of our imagination. Another thinks of Trump as a fearless crusader against it. Both sides are missing something very important."
The Real Revolution Has Nothing To Do With Donald Trump
"Trump is not fighting the US deep state by advancing longtime US deep state agendas, and anyone who thinks that he is has had some very bad luck with thinking."
Dictator for Life: The Rise of the American Imperial President
"No matter who sits on the throne, the office of the president of the United States has, for all intents and purposes, become a unilateral power unto itself."
Selective Outrage Will Not End Government Abuses
"Whether collectivists realize it or not, they voted to put those kids in cages separated from their families. They voted for Trump to inherit the Obama era powers."
The Bill To Let The President Imprison U.S. Citizens in Military Detention Forever
"Thanks to a combination of sloppy drafting and clear reluctance to take the executive branch head-on, Corker and Kaine’s proposed AUMF could do the opposite, handing genuinely tyrannical powers over to the president."
Your Tax Dollars Bankroll Afghan Child-Molesters
"Doctors, teachers, and social workers can be jailed for failing to report child abuse here at home. But, 6,000 miles away, U.S. troops risk their career for protesting pederasty."
James Bovard: Washington secrecy is creating a know-nothing democracy
"The sharpest plunge in America’s press freedom rating occurred during the Obama administration — thanks in part to its zealous prosecutions of journalists. Trump is continuing policies started by earlier presidents."