Sunday, June 28, 2026

Tag: Vladimir Putin

From America with love

U.S. commandos are a “persistent presence” on Russia’s doorstep.

The Anti-Empire Report #150: I’m back

Read author William Blum’s views on recent events...

Russians suspected of burning evidence before vacating consulate

Given Trump’s sycophantic relationship with Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Trump’s critics adamantly suggest that the president was forced into expelling the Russians.

TrumPutin moving forward, democracy declines

Without an impeachment, without a serious overhaul of enforced voting rights and a return to safeguarded paper ballots, we will continue to watch the erosion and destruction of this 241-year experiment in freedom.

The art of the (Trump and Putin) deal

Mr. Putin, what might you have agreed to do for Trump in return?

The Trump-Putin meeting and the fate of the Earth

The imminent meeting between Trump and Putin will affect the chances that the young people we love – and so many others around the world – will have a future.

Why Trump must make Putin smile

Whose interest is served by all this clownish chaos?

The art of the Putin-Trump deal

If you are Putin and you did do a deal, what did Trump agree to do?

Trump campaign secretly communicated with Russians at least 18 times

Trump claims, “This is the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!”

Trump’s perilous gamble: Act guilty, evade infamy; then ‘redeemed,’ lord over...

How does a careening president, readily turning into Liar-in-Chief and under FBI scrutiny, reverse his humiliating situation?

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Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future

Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.

Addicted to war?

War Fever, Trump-Style.

Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture

The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."

Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta 

Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.

Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool

The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.