Mexican drug cartels, Colombia drug cartels, Afghan drug cartels - these exist for one reason: to supply the American demand for drugs. And of course we know that Mexican government, army, and police are thoroughly corrupt. Maybe the solution is not wiping out cartels that will soon be replaced but moral improvement in the United States? Is that possible?


The government declared “War on Drugs” about 40 years ago. How has that worked out? We have engaged in a useless war against the suppliers. How about doing something about the demand side? Of course, that might require Christian input which the federal government cannot tolerate, preferring liberal therapeutic solutions that don’t work.


By the way, have you noticed lately how the “War on Terrorism” and the “War on Poverty” are going?


I find it a little interesting that the government and media emphasise Mexican drugs but pay little attention to something that is much more horrific - human trafficking. It is reported by some that tens of thousands of children have had their lives destroyed in this way. And I fear that a major cause of this also is demand by depraved Americans. Why no U.S. interest in rescuing these victims?


We are showing more and more the decadence of Roman decline. People rightfully question the reason for non-disclosure of the Epstein files. Our elites have long been free from facing any responsibility for their conduct. George W. Bush launched an illegal and greatly destructive war on the basis of deliberately concocted lies. When this came to be understood he was re-elected and shrugged it off with “So what.” Bush did more long lasting damage to America even than Biden.
Power fortified by lack of responsibility for consequences, which has been enjoyed for long now by Presidents, Congress, judges, bureaucrats including those who head the military, billionaire NGO masters. One of the major temptations for irresponsible power is breaking the strong taboo against pedophilia.


With Epstein and some earlier issues we have considerable reason to suspect that some of our rulers have been tempted into this abomination. Are we ever likely to find out and see justice done? There is reason to doubt.


Democracy? Thomas Massie, the wisest and bravest member of the U.S. House of Representatives, recently suggested cutting of aid to Israel. The next day three out-of-state billionaires supplied millions in funds to prevent his re-election. Something that the Founding Fathers and earlier Americans could not even imagine. Something would not even be thought of before WW II. Democracy? 

A while back I wrote that I would really believe in Donald Trump when I saw the Arlington reconciliation monument go back up. Almost hard to believe, it looks like it’s happening.


It seems also that immigration is being seriously addressed, and I am happy about that too! Although I fear it is far too late to repair the damage caused by Third World alteration of the American population.


Make no mistake, Americans should be eternally grateful for Trump’s appearance on the scene. Remember, he was the ONLY national figure to bring serious issues into discussion. The entire Republican Party, executive and legislative, a club of smug, shallow, self-serving office-holders, never had sufficient courage and patriotism to address the issues that Trump raised. In fact, the Republicans are deeply implicit in abetting our decline.


Alas, Trump is showing some signs that are dubious and sometimes obviously bad. He has attacked his own people, been incomprehensible on the Ukraine question, and failed to explain clearly why he is doing what he is doing. I admit not in the least understanding this tariff business, but if it helps the American working class, then I am for it.


Those who expected him to quit military bullying, cut spending, and expose ruling class corruption have been disappointed and are feeling betrayed.


Trump’s callous stand on the Gaza genocide is deeply deplorable. But it is a simple fact that no President or Congress can oppose Zionism without paying costs that almost no one is willing to pay. If there is any justice in human affairs, Americans will be paying a heavy price in the future as accessories to crime.


We are, I think, seeing proof that being President of the U.S. has grown into a job that no one can do. The federal monster is so large and powerful that control is impossible unless a President and Congress are united and determined and willing to act against the media and the judiciary. And able and determined people are employed to enter the bureaucracy with fire and sword.


​Trump has made a start, at least, on the last mentioned. I think he is trying to do more than is possible and has lost his way, His personality is not an asset in this situation. Almost everyone I know is now or always has been doubtful of Donald Trump. But we must exist in the real world and take what we can get.

Review of Andrea Nolen, Lincoln’s Counterfeiters: The Wisconsin Gang that Funded the Union and Started the Chicago Mob. History Press, 2025.


In the late 19th century and through the 20th there was a widespread impression that the Democratic Party operated corrupt big city machines and the Republican politicians were respectably sober and honest.


​This author makes clear, chapter and verse, that mass corruption began with Lincoln and Grant’s Republicans. Ms. Nolen started with an interest in the local history of her little Wisconsin town of Monroe. She soon found that the town was a major center for counterfeiting of U.S. banknotes. And the crimes were carried out by “respectable” prominent locals, all of them Radical Republicans and abolitionists and members of local groups that suppressed antiwar people. Most of them were born in New England, including a Unitarian clergyman.


The counterfeiting business got even better when the Republicans passed the National Bank Act in 1863, allowing rich Republicans to establish “national banks,” which increased the opportunities of counterfeiting.


“The Union waged for to free the poor suffering black people of the South.” That’s the story told these days. It is a lie. The Republican Party, a minority of the American electorate, got control of the federal government and carried out a cruel invasion and conquest of the South, followed by a decade of military occupation, in order to maintain their economic control of the continent.


Ohio Senate John Sherman, brother of General Sherman, declared frankly that establishing to National Bank system was more important than emancipating the slaves. The blacks were always marginal to the Republican program, except where they might be used to advantage.


The U.S. government was quite restrained at the time in investigation of the crooks. After all, they were good Radicals. Secret Service men were pressured to weaken their reports. It would seem that Lincoln’s incompetent foreign spymaster Pinkerton was part of this.


A number of cities harbored Republican crooks. One group, from Louisville, moved into Chicago and established a corrupt machine that flourished in the 1860s and 1870s under Lincoln and Grant. They engaged in every sort of gang criminality including prostitution.


​Democratic machines rose up in opposition to Republican corruption. The economic crimes and crony capitalism carried out by the Republican party are still with us to this day. There is an abundance of ignored documentation that supports this. Lincoln’s Counterfeiters is a valuable contribution to the truth. 

Interesting facts. The first session of the U.S. Supreme Court was held on Wall Street. Alexander Hamilton’s law office was on Wall Street as is his grave at the little Episcopal church, one of the oldest preserved buildings in Manhattan. Wall Street housed the strongest voices urging Lincoln to a violent attack on the South. Given the decisive unelected power of big financiers on our country one is tempted to say that the strongest power in the U.S. is located on that same street.


We South Carolinians have longed and hoped for a strong challenger to Lispey Graham in the next Republican Senate primary. Andre Bauer has announced his candidacy. This is not what we hoped for. Bauer is a deep-dyed Establishment Republican, although he now claims to be “a conservative fighter for President Trump.” In the last Republican primary for governor he got 12.4 % of the vote. A conspicuous lack of charisma and of anything other than a mainstream Republican record.


The destruction of Confederate monuments is not only an atrocity against history, it is an atrocity against American art. And carried out by mob rule and by politicians who have never done anything constructive even for their own people.


America’s big cities are now corrupt and deteriorating. Nobody who knows anything about the true history of “Reconstruction” should be surprised.


The world I grew up in was very far from perfect. But we have since added evils that could not even been imagined then:

• Phones constantly rigging with Hindus speaking incomprehensible singsong English.
• Cars rear-ended by unlicensed and uninsured Mexicans.
• Sodomites, instead of staying prudently quiet, dancing in the streets.
• Scatological words routinely used almost every minute in the media and everyday conversation

We can never fail to thank him for the courageous change he has made in American politics and public discourse. He spoke openly about threats to the American people that every Republican congressman and presidential hopeful was too shallow and cowardly to even acknowledge the existence of. This is a revolutionary event in U.S. history that we can hope will have long lasting effects.


He seems to have made a start toward correcting the immigrant crisis and reducing the monstrous federal bureaucracy. We don’t really know how far these reforms have gone and how far they will be able to go. We actually do not know what is happening now with these reforms. Can they really be solved definitively? We already see opposition by the “mainstream” Republicans, wedded to government spending and avoidance of real issues.


The issue of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” seems strange and incomprehensible. Has he sold out to the Establishment Republicans (always his greatest obstacle) and abandoned his populist base? What is he after? Is there something we don’t understand going on? Trump’s defect in personalising disagreements has caused him to attack some of the strongest and most important figures that have inspired his movement. This is bound to bring confusion to his base. It has certainly lowered my estimate of his capacity for statesmanship.


And, of course, most saliently is the “forever war” question. Trump’s stand on this accounted for much of his support, but we now find him making criminal and unconstitutional attacks on another country on flimsy evidence - just like his predecessors. It is like George W. Bush’s dishonesty if not stupidity again. Has he sold out completely to the Zionists? Or is he trying rash acts in hope of bringing them under control, something which is likely not possible for any U.S. President?


And what about the deceitful suppression of the Epstein material? Why? And will the administration prosecute the crimes committed by the CIA and other government powers? Or will these crimes be forgotten from the Republican desire to keep the government respectable?


Trump brought decent America some hope. At this date we do not know whether we were conned once again. We do know that MAGA and its promise of reform has been seriously damaged. If Trump does not fulfill his declared mission, that leaves us with the truth that electoral politics can never save us from the evil Yankee Empire. 

Dear reader, you must take a look at the documentary “The Fall of Minneapolis,” easy to find online. It was created by a rare honest reporter who left Minneapolis television because she was not allowed to ask questions about the George Floyd case. The reporter, Liz Collins, also has a book, They Lied.


George Floyd, a violent, drug-addicted felon in dangerously bad health, died in police custody of a heart attack after being apprehended for a robbery. His story became immediately international news - with a video of a white policeman holding him down while he was saying he could not breathe.


The story presented and still being presented to the public was that White cops had murdered poor George Floyd. The news media adopted this narrative immediately and persistently.


The police, at Floyd’s request, had taken him from the squad car and laid him out flat to aid his breathing while waiting for an ambulance that went to the wrong address. The criminal was being held down by the White cop with a method that had long been standard in the police manual.


We might say that American history changed that day. This incident became a worldwide exhibit of heinous systematic racism in American society. Riots, unpoliced by the city, destroyed 1,500 Minneapolis businesses. They were copied everywhere. American corporations funded Black Lives Matter, which is now exposed as a corrupt money-making machine for its leaders.


George Floyd got a gold statue and an athletic field named for him. His “family,” in which he had never shown any interest and which had never shown any interest in him, got over a million dollars in public money.


But that is not the least of it. The governor (recently the Democratic candidate for vice-president of the U.S), the state attorney general, the mayor, and the police chief LIED to keep the false narrative of murder and racism going.


Even worse, they manipulated the justice system with the cooperation of a sympathetic judge. Defense evidence was systematically excluded from the trials of the police officers - the police body camera material, the original autopsy which showed death by heart attack. And the relevant part of the police manual somehow disappeared. The scene was arranged to intimidate the jury so that they feared for their lives if they found the police innocent.


The respected cop accused of the “murder” is serving a prison sentence that will last till his old age. Other officers at the scene, one of them an African American, also received prison sentences. The politicians and the media readily sacrificed ordinary law officers for their false narrative.


What we learn from this is the utter corruption of the national media and the “blue” state political establishment. They want to impose their perverted view of the world on us. They hate us and consider themselves to be a gifted elite to rule over the masses.


Minneapolis is deteriorating as might be expected. Crime has boomed to previously unknown levels. In a year carjackings went from one to 200, nearly all unpunished. Some 40% of the police have resigned, and you can bet they are the best part of the force. Minnesotans are leaving their beautiful State for boring Iowa.


As one who lived through the “civil rights” era, I am tempted to say to Minnesotans, “Good, you are getting some of what you deserve.” At that time Minnesota was about 98% white and its leaders were at the forefront of applying federal force to change the multi-racial South into a form that they virtuously wanted. Leaders like Humphrey, Mondale, McCarthy. (I have wondered why Minnesota, which is not a particularly large state in population, has had so many politicians in the vicinity of the White House right up to the dubious Walz.)


​It is tempting to say to Minnesota, "You deserve it." But perhaps that is a bit unfair. There are plenty of good people there. Much of the rural state shows red.

“Ted” Rafael Cruz, although a Senator from Texas, was born in Canada to a Cuban father and educated at Princeton and Harvard Law. Texas Senators reached an apparent bottom low with Lyndon Johnson. The days of Sam Houston, John Reagan, Roger Mills, Lee O’Daniel are long gone, but the standard after Johnson, incredibly, keeps moving down and down.


I watched a debate between Cruz and Tucker Carlson, the subject of which was supposed to be whether the U.S. joining the Israeli attack on Iran is good for Americans (other than casualties and taxes). With Cruz I saw a politician (and I mean that in every derogatory sense) display his great talents---evasions, non sequiturs, and changing the subject without ever giving a clear position. While pretending to the posture of a dignified elder statesman.


I thought immediately about how Satan works in the world and wins over many with plausible and seemingly sincere lies. After all, he is the Father of Lies. I saw the snake hissing in Eve’s ear.


Cruz favours an American attack on Iran in support of Israel, although he never came out and directly said so or gave any sufficient reason why. In answer to that issue he diverted to a tale about how he is neither an interventionist nor an isolationist but a very wise and thoughtful chooser of what foreign invasions are necessary. He admitted that we cannot attack every country with “bad people” but never made clear why Iran was one of those that needed to be attacked. Every reason he mentioned fell short of war justification.


When Carlson asked Cruz what “regime change” would look like in Iran he had no opinion, causing us to wonder if he ever even thought about it. Regime change? Like Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Ukraine? The issue of regime change was evaded by Cruz flattering Carlson that he agreed with him 80% of the time.


Carlson queried why the U.S. should be concerned with war for the benefit of another country when our country is showing deterioration in ways that need to be addressed? Pointing out that domestic society has been declining since the supposedly beneficial end of the Cold War. Cruz retreated immediately to Republican boiler plate. Our problems are caused by Democratic mayors in big cities, he declared. How this is responsible for falling life expectancy, impoverishment of the working class, and deteriorating infrastructure was not addressed.


Cruz’s answer is classic Republican evasion—avoiding what is real and serious by substituting a slogan.


And why should the U.S. government be involved in arranging other people’s countries at all? Countries that cannot harm us? I thought that was what the people elected Trump to get rid of.


And it seems to be bad form to murder another country’s respected leaders and scientists. Does anybody do this other than Israel?


My friends, let us remember that Israel has an arsenal of nuclear weapons and has refused, unlike Iran, international inspection. That President Kennedy was acting to restrain Israel getting nuclear weapons at the time of his death. That both international inspectors and U.S. intelligence have for two decades discounted that Iran intended a nuclear bomb. And that Cruz’s last election campaign got $2,000,000 support from Israel advocates.


Satan is real and here. His lies have long governed the U.S. government.

To quit sending them billions of government money is, according to college presidents, tyranny.

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Take a look at the L.A. riots. If Southerners ever engaged in a protest, genuinely “peaceful, as at Charlottesville, we would already be suppressed and arrested, probably killed.

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The Governor of California complains that Trump’s armed intervention against rioters violates his state’s “sovereignty.” Where did he get that? Various Republican politicians compare the intervention to Lincoln’s attack on the Confederacy. Politicians of both parties are totally ignorant about the War for Southern Independence and the Constitution. The Confederacy was not a riot. Secession was democratically voted for and carried out with dignified and formal Constitutional proceedings and expressions of peaceful intent. To compare the Confederacy to violent rioting by foreign criminals is catastrophically ignorant and dishonest.

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In December 1841 the Japanese Empire attacked and tried to destroy the American fleet at Pearl Harbor. They regarded the U.S. Navy as a potential obstacle to their intent to dominate East Asia and the Pacific.


In June 2025 the Israeli armed forces attacked Iran as a potential threat to their dominance of the Middle East as the region’s only nuclear power. The moral position is exactly the same as that of Pearl Harbor - launching a deliberate war of aggression against another country upon a potential threat. A war crime according to every Western and Christian teaching.


Iran is not Libya or even Iraq. It is the inheritor of the mighty Persian Empire, with a large, intelligent, and active population, not a pushover. Many knowledgeable observers have discounted its intention to build nuclear weapons. Unlike Israel, it does not have any now.


The Israeli aggression depends on American money, weapons, and intelligence. It would seem the President of the U.S. collaborated in setting up the attack after Iran refused demands that no independent country could accept.


Donald Trump has abetted not only the Iran attack but the Gaza genocide carried out by Israel. When did a terrorist attack justify the eradication of innocent women and children? Trump has damaged his reputation, lost support, and compromised his more important domestic agenda. And cast doubt as to whether he has gained any control over the Deep State.


There is no reason to pour extra blame on Trump. The last President to have a fair and honest view of the Middle East was Jimmy Carter, a half century ago. It was nearly inevitable that America would be implicated in Israeli crimes. In the U.S. House and Senate the near unanimous consent of both parties has bankrolled Zionism for decades.


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Another major Trump disappointment - the Big Beautiful Bill. Of course, politicians lie and attempt to confuse voters about what they do - that is their nature. But as far as one can tell, Trump in this bill has sold out to the mainstream Republicans who hate him. Supposed spending cuts don’t come in until five years, which is a total useless measure. The Republican Speaker made sure that the USAid expenditures, so vividly exposed by DOGE, remain in force, along with a billion dollars to PBS and Green Energy measures.


What Trump thinks he is doing with this maneuver is hard to understand. I have always said that the greatest obstacle to his populist agenda is the Republican party. Some of the Republicans who voted in the expenditures applauded Trump when he praised spending cuts in the State of the Union address. That is the kind of thing that Republicans in power do.


Some Democrats actually believe in their perverted measures. Though they lie to further them, they actually think they are doing good. But Republican Congresspersons, by and large, are short-sighted and self-promoting and have no ideas about the public good at all. They are merely an election machine for the mediocre element of the Yankee nation to get in office without any real principles or vision. They spout out meaningless party slogans designed by advertising men. They are afraid of anything realistic that might hurt their respectability.


We are told we must admire Ronald Reagan, with a wife into astrology, a toe-dancing son, and a Playmate daughter. He signed into law the MLK holiday and a measure to give citizenship to millions of illegals, and first brought into power the Neocons who have disastrously dominated U.S. foreign policy.


​We have to fear that the populist revolution needed to save the American people is not prospering. Perhaps its failure is already sealed in history.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is one of the great men of the 20th century West. His son has made a convenient and timely collection of ten of his public speeches in Europe and America between 1972 and 1997. Notre Dame University Press has just published it as We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Few people have better understood the history and troublesome trajectory of the West and are more genuinely relevant to our life today.


Perhaps younger readers might appreciate a little background since this great seer’s career has lapsed from public attention.


While serving as a patriotic Russian soldier during World War II, he wrote in a private letter some remarks that were deemed subversive of the Communist Soviet Union. He soon found himself for ten years in one of the many prison labour camps throughout Siberia which he described vividly in The Gulag Archipelago.


Eventually released, though a nonperson, Solzhenitsyn wrote brilliant books on Russian history. Then during the reign of Khruschev the Communists allowed some anti-Stalinist commentary and his prison camp novel, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich was allowed to reach the West. He became well-known as an important writer behind the Iron Curtain.


Then the KGB cracked down. His writings were preserved from government censorship by friends in multiple handwritten copies.


He was too well known to be eliminated so he was deported from his homeland to the West, where he wrote prolifically and became a famous figure. He returned to Russia on the fall of the Soviet Union after a 20-year exile.


During his time in the West Solzhenitsyn was invited to make public addresses at various institutions. To the surprise of Western liberals, he did not praise the West but pointed out his sense of the moral and intellectual weakness of the West as seen by a refugee from a totalitarian state. In one of his later speeches he mentions the indifference of Western publics to “far grief.” That can apply to the suffering of the innocent in America’s aggressive wars.


Needless to say his popularity in the American media fell off considerably. The no-neck Republican Establishment President Gerald Ford, unlike Margaret Thatcher and the Pope, and despite a Nobel Prize, even refused to meet him. Establishment Republicans have long been deathly afraid of anything controversial or morally challenging that might upset their perks and their image of respectable moderation. (Witness their clandestine blocking of Trump reforms.)


“We Have Ceased to See the Purpose” is a good summary title to Solzhenitsyn’s message to our world lacking faith in human life for anything but the material and hedonistic.


A few observations of many of permanent value:


“Nations are the wealth of mankind, its generalized personalities; the least among them bears its own unique coloration and harbors within itself a unique facet of God’s design.”


“There is one other invaluable direction in which literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience from one generation to another. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation. It sustains within itself and safeguards a nation’s bygone history---in a form that cannot be distorted or falsified. In this way together with language, it preserves the national soul.”


“A statesman who wants to achieve something important for his country is forced to step cautiously . . . . Dozens of traps will be set for him . . . Thus does mediocrity triumph under the guise of democratic restraints.”


“Superficiality and haste---the psychological maladies of the twentieth century, manifest themselves, more than anywhere else, in the press... Such as it is, however, the press has become the dominant power in western countries... Yet one would like to ask: according to what law has it been elected and to whom it is accountable... who has voted Western journalists into their positions of power?”


“Your scholars are free in the legal sense, but they are hemmed in by the idols of prevailing fashion.”


American leftists disliked Solzhenitsyn because from the creation of the Soviet Union in the aftermath of World War I until its fall in 1992 they defended the Communist tyranny and covered up its crimes. The Communists around FDR made sure Russia got maximum support during World War II including secretly and illegally sending nuclear material. Despite Churchill’s warning they made sure that the Soviets got control of a large share of the peoples of Europe.


The fall of the Soviet Union was a blow to the leftist agenda. Having defended Communist Russia they became afraid of a newer more conservative and religious Russia. Having loved the Soviet Union they fear the new Russia. How sad that the U.S. stance toward Russia has been controlled by a small group with their own agenda.


American foreign policy, controlled by neoconservatives who came into power under Reagan, and whose only problem with Communism was that it was controlled by Stalin rather than Trotsky, has been unrelentingly hostile and abusive to the new Russia.

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How tragic that the end of a tyranny promised an era of peace and disarmament but the U.S. government chose to renew the Cold War against a civilizing Russia. And now we have a U.S. inaugurated and catastrophic war in Ukraine.

It is not easy to find out what is going on in Washington these days. That is partly due to Donald Trump’s style - many initiatives and gambits, loudly and provocatively presented. Some of these, like the tariff business, are obviously maneuvering for position; others are serious.


This is wonderful and Trump is doing great service to our supposed government of the people. He is talking directly to the people and raising real issues. While for the last half century the Uniparty presidents and congresspersons have avoided all real issues as they increased federal power and pronounced platitudes about doing good that were believed only by those who were already slaves of the Establishment.


Another and larger reason for the difficulties in understanding is the total dishonesty of the now completely corrupted mainstream press and television. Media have always been biased. It used to be that you allowed for the bias and managed to get the genuine substance of what was happening. That is now impossible for the millions of dolts who still follow the mainstream media. No President has ever been subjected to the daily barrage of negative lies that Trump is experiencing.


In theory, reporters objectively report what a President proposes and has to say. They may add objective report of what critics and opponents have to say in response, and the editorial page may express opinion as to what is going on. That is proper public deliberation for a supposedly free country.


But the current media never report plainly what Trump does and says. The reader first hears of the proposals in a negative context. A few examples of recent online headlines: “Trump Appears to Change Tune”; “Trump Scrambles for Positive Spin”; “Buyer’s Remorse Strikes Trump Voters”; “Judge Declares Trump Action Unconstitutional.”


College Journalism courses are now called Media Arts or some such thing. It is now established that college Journalism majors rank even below Education majors in I.Q. They all aspire to be news anchors on television. I know where of I speak. In my long ago misspent youth I was a newspaper reporter for two years.


In those days reporters were curious, tough, and skeptical. Some had not even been to college. They did not accept the usual pablum from mayors, police chiefs, bureaucrats, judges, self-promoting political wannabes, and business tycoons. To the extent that the owners allowed, they tried to tell it like it was.


More recently I have had to opportunity to see how much the news “profession” has deteriorated. For a period the press was interested in me as (unbelievably) a “Southern nationalist.” I encountered a number of reporters. I never met one from a “respectable” news outlet who knew anything, was capable of independent thought, and able to report anything except in terms of current clichés.


Many friends on my side are expressing disappointment with Trump. He is not exactly the type of leader I admire. But he seems to have at least made a start on the immense, difficult, and necessary task of cleaning up immigration and firing federal bureaucrats. Who else who is high in public life has ever even considered doing such things?


Is it possible that even Trump’s greatest flaw, support of Israeli imperialist genocide, may offer some promise. He may have wrapped Netanyahu so tightly that he can exercise some control over him in the only way it can be done. May we hope?