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Trump has a serious problem. He wants to be the `stupor mundi’ i.e. the master of the world, but he is running out of things to conquer.
Alexander the Great ran into a similar problem when his vanguard reached today’s Afghanistan: ‘oh Zeus! Not another damned desert. Will they never end?’
Trump has won the US presidency twice despite scandals and impeachment. Now, he speaks of an illegal third ‘term’ to be engineered by his battalions of lawyers and louche political advisors. He just overthrew Venezuela’s Maduro regime, long a target of US machinations. In doing so, Trump pulled off a highly competent coup and military operation that surgically decapitated the Maduro regime.
The much reviled and derided Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, formerly of Fox TV, deserves kudos for this complex military-political operation. Ditto CIA which prepared the groundwork for this successful operation. The late President Jimmy Carter had no such good luck when trying to free American hostages held in Iran after its revolution.
Look at the life of Renee Nicole Good. She was a mother who loved her children. She was a daughter who was cherished. She was a wife, a dog mom, and a vibrant soul who for 37 years occupied a space in this world that can never be filled again.
Twelve hours ago, Renee woke up in her home. Tonight, her wife goes to bed alone. Her child will never see her again. Not because of a “tragedy,” but because of an execution. This week the Trump administration sent 2,000 ICE agents to Minnesota. And because of that?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has concluded his visit to the United States, returning home after reportedly securing yet another round of political backing from Donald Trump. As with previous encounters, the meeting provided Netanyahu with diplomatic cover and strategic reassurance, reinforcing Israel’s ability to sustain its military posture in Gaza and across the region with limited external constraint.
History and Hubris
Over a century ago RMS Titanic vanished into the North Atlantic ocean, sunk by an iceberg indifferent to its passengers’ wealth, the vessel’s speed, or its ambitious ocean crossing schedule. The sinking was due to hubris, really—its captain’s pursuit of a record-fast crossing time despite ample warning that night of iceberg risk. He was overconfident that his ship was "unsinkable."
Today the stakes have become absurdly higher. Humanity is not crashing into an iceberg, rather we are on course for melting them all.
The Unheeded Physics of Earth’s Worsening Fever
The science confirming our global warming trajectory isn't hidden away in arcane climate models; it's measured precisely by satellites orbiting the planet. The instruments deliver a stark warning: Earth is warming because it is absorbing more energy from the sun than it radiates back into space. This measurable discrepancy is called Earth's "radiative imbalance".
Wy did the US president pardon a known drug trafficker while kidnapping a
legitimately elected sitting president of Venezuela right after meeting
with a fellow criminal Netanyahu? Why does a Nobel Peace commitee give a
peace prize to a women who supports the Israeli genocide and called for the
US to invade her own country of Venezuela? The connections to petrodollar,
oil, and Israel are now clearer than ever despite western mainstream media
and western leaders trying very hard to throw smoke in people's faces.....
but first.....
Here in Palestine, Israeli colonialists continue their genocide with
impunity. Just in the past 24 hours killing a fisherman at sea, bombing a
family killing children, abducting a journalist, torturing prisoners,
ethnically cleansing an area in Masafer Yatta, bombing a refugee tent,
taking over a house in Silwan, and two other people in Gaza died when their
home collapsed on them (bombed by Israel earlier). A few days ago, the
apartheid Israeli regime banned the work of 37 International organizations
that alleviate the suffering of our people, suffering caused by these
We open GREEP zoom #252 with MAYOR HEIDE LAMPERT of Waldport, Oregon, a democratically elected official arrested by an armed fascist.
We follow with our Poet Laureate, MIMI GERMAN’s ode common decency, and to CLAIRE ELIZABETH HALL, words from Steven Kent for an esteemed and beloved County Commissioner.
We also honor the great HOWIE KLEIN, who truly made a difference for the better.
Indivisible’s AMY ANDERSON gives a critical report on an upcoming Congressional primary.
The great KARL GROSSMAN joins us to explain the four evil movers pushing the Venezuela assault, including oil, Epstein, Cuba and the petro-dollar.
From JENNIE GAGE we get a report on the MAGA response to this latest imperial war, which is full of tortured contradiction.
From Congressional candidate HARTZELL GRAY we hear a cry against colonialism and the class imperative to finally end it.
Radio talk host LYNN FEINERMAN offers a heart-felt stand for Marjorie Taylor Green and warns of the anti-female dimension to this fascist regime.
Media hero DAVID SALTMAN digs deep into the stock exchange’s role in laundering the petro-dollar throughout the decades.
Look at the life of Renee Nicole Good. She was a mother who loved her child. She was a daughter who was cherished. She was a wife, a dog mom, and a vibrant soul who for 37 years occupied a space in this world that can never be filled again.
Twelve hours ago, Renee woke up in her home. Tonight, her wife goes to bed alone. Her child will never see her again. Not because of a “tragedy,” but because of an execution. This week the Trump administration sent 2,000 ICE agents to Minnesota. And because of that?
Oh good. Now we have a war to focus on. Everyone’s tired of Epstein by now, and tired of the possibility that the bad guy may be, ho hum, our own national leader, a.k.a., the commander-in-chief.
So the commander-in-chief has stepped in for the sake of the public good, bestowing on America a far more traditional enemy to hate and fear and let dominate the headlines: narco-terrorists.
I’m still trying to grasp the fact that Donald Trump has actually invaded Venezuela. He’s no longer simply bombing boats in the ocean. The U.S. military bombed Caracas on Jan. 3 and broke into the home of the country’s president, Nicolas Maduro, and his wife Cilia Flores. They were kidnapped and extradited to the United Staes, where they are now on trial for drug trafficking – as though that was the moral purpose of the invasion.