Politics

A bold thesis that best makes sense of an astonishingly calamitous Trump week. The unforced Trump implosion invites provocative interpretations, even projection of a readily predictable demise. Trump never thought he'd get this far and is now showing why he should go no further. How does he reverse this week's torrent of political self-destruction, worsening his General Election leverage? Can we not imagine Trump’s PR skills going into full damage control mode, even sniffing how to make lemonade out of souring lemons.

If the Biden administration really wants to stop fueling chaos and terrorism in the world, it must radically transform the CIA.

“If we are a nation “of laws, not of men” (as that old basic description of democracy phrased it), then Ms. Clinton will be prosecuted, at least through the grand jury stage, on (at least) those grounds.”

America has now arrived at the point at which the survival of our democracy is clearly at stake.

“It is unacceptable that Americans pay, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs,” asserted Sanders.

“So right now in the name of 17 people, you cannot ask the NRA to keep their money out of your campaign?”

What’s truly amazing – until one habituates to the mammoth corruption of current U.S. politics – is how utterly unwilling today’s Democratic Party is to discuss issues that would paint Republicans in not merely in an unflattering, but in a criminally insane light.

The US corporate media, acting in unison and sounding more like China’s Xinhwa or the old Soviet-era Pravda, has announced that they're going to declare that Hillary Clinton’s ‘clinched’ the nomination as soon as New Jersey Democrats vote Tuesday. The truth? She won’t have won yet.

And no kidding, that’s the literal truth when it comes to war, American-style.

The new administration has removed all mention of key issues and replaced them with hazy plans on energy, foreign policy, law enforcement, military, jobs, and trade deals.