Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. “As far as I can tell, no one has flagged what’s arguably the most scandalous revelation of the leak: The Trump administration saw itself as using the United States military to ‘send a message’—and Trump was pushing to extract money from […]
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The president’s confounding decision to dismiss General Timothy Haugh and his civilian deputy, Wendy Noble, as well as a half dozen other seniors on the National Security Council, has rightfully rattled the country’s national security experts, lawmakers, and senior military officers. Everyone is puzzled and the only working explanation is that Mr. Trump’s palace whisperer, […]
28 March 2025 Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. When I applied in 1975 to become a Central Intelligence Agency analyst, I feared that I would not obtain a security clearance because I had been active – marching, signing petitions and the like – in the anti-Vietnam […]
March 31, 2025 Thanks for reading! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. On March 14, 2025, President Trump signed an Executive Order closing the U.S. Agency for Global Media, an independent agency created by Congress in 1999. Like many of his supposed cost-cutting measures, this action may not pass the […]
This president of ours is engaged in an effort to break the US Government, weaken the US spiritually, commercially and industrially. He is making not the slightest effort to hide either the fact of this reality or the consequences that await us. We seem to be doomed to a darkening future, all of Trump’s sinister […]
After two months in office, Trump’s policy direction has become pretty clear to all of us. At least, if you define direction as “how to make bad stuff happen to as many Americans as possible.” I mean, plenty of people who voted for the guy are already whining about his actions; after all, they never […]