Tag: Trump

Contradictory statements from the White House coincide with troop deployments, market volatility, and renewed scrutiny of the United States’ military infrastructure across the Gulf.

Iranian strikes on Gulf energy sites and renewed threats against American installations are exposing how decades of US military expansion in the Middle East have tied Washington to regional regimes while increasing risks of wider war.

Unusual oil and stock trades worth hundreds of millions of dollars occurred minutes before the president’s social media announcement about Iran peace talks, prompting calls for investigations into possible insider knowledge.

And there are millions around the world who love the Cuban people—a people who have fought capitalism, imperialism, Apartheid, and Zionism. A people who are always the first to offer aid and solidarity.

One imagined the durability, if not standing of America, demanded a far stronger, earth-shaking force than a self-mortifying, scamming joke.

Few arrogant thugs resist the fates – / Comeuppance blights true reprobates.

The personification of an imperial power (and planet) in decline.

But what reforms come without great pains?/The status quo sneers at balls and chains.

Even worse than economic blunders or imperialistic lunacy are shocking, needless deaths that now define MAGATrump – how many innocent bystanders one cult can maim, starve, disrespect or kill.

U.S. murder and violence against other people and countries does not become lawful simply because officials in the White House wish that it was.