Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Tag: Vladimir Putin

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?

Trump (and Putin) still pushing fascist ‘nationalism’

Nobody should maintain any illusions about who Trump and his cronies are, what interests they serve, and what kind of threat they pose to the future of the democratic world.

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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?

The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.

Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press

The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues

Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...

What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?

Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...

A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.

Now you see them… now you don’t

Women leaders and Trump 2.0.