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Two Decades Of Madness

Two decades of war. Two decades of profiteering. Two decades of killing innocent bystanders. Two decades of surveillance. Two decades of detention and too many years of torture, undue process and profiling. Two decades of hyper-patriotism. Two decades of militarism, unrepentant Exceptionalism and religious righteousness. Two decades of lies, deceit and self-delusion. Two decades of…

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Russia’s Role In BountyGate Doesn’t Matter

Shortly after President Trump tweeted that the Russian Bounty story was a “hoax,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told reporters that the US has long known that Russia AND Iran AND others have been funding counter-US/Taliban operation in Afghanistan. Then came this story from Business Insider, which basically corroborates both the reporting by the NY Times…

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Is Oil Kicking The Bucket?

The persistent oil glut I’ve been yammering about for the last four years has finally reached the tipping point … with the coronavirus now making it functionally impossible for the Oil-Industrial Complex to control this epic glut with geopolitical games, targeted sanctions or artificial scarcity. That’s key because this glut (which OPEC+ once again tried…

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The Impeachment Blunder

It’s been my contention that Impeachment is one of the great political blunders of my lifetime … worse than Susan Estrich putting Dukakis in a tank, almost worse than Gore ghosting then-sitting President Clinton and perhaps even worse than Hillary skipping Wisconsin. I have privately debated the wisdom of Impeachment with Democrats, and publicly criticized…