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#1 - As U.S. Debt Hits a Worrying Milestone, Washington Barely Notices
This is the title of Tony Romm’s article, New York Times, May 7 2026
(https://nytimes.com/2026/05/07/business/us-debt-trump-policies-budget.html). Here’s some of what he writes.
“The debt is outgrowing the size of America’s economy. The president’s policies could accelerate the country’s fiscal headaches, experts say, unless policymakers intervene.
The debt problem.
Romm writes this. “The U.S. government learned last week that it may have reached an unfortunate milestone: The size of its debt surpassed the nation’s total economic output.
“It was a striking imbalance, according to early estimates, one that the country has experienced only in rare circumstances — briefly during the pandemic, and in the aftermath of World War II.”
The source of the problem.
President Donald Trump is back from his business trip to China which had a lot of ambiguity over issues like Taiwan without having done either much discernible damage or benefit to American interests. The trip ended with the American participants dropping all the gifts that they had received from the Chinese into a large garbage bin on the tarmac before they boarded their plane. And while the president was gone Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to everyone’s surprised announced that he was canceling plans to deploy an additional 4,000 Texas-based US soldiers to Poland for a long-planned nine month rotation that includes training with NATO allies. The assignment was also originally intended to serve as a possible resource should the situation with Russia-Ukraine happen to spill over into adjacent NATO countries.
Israeli settler violence is not isolated — it is state‑backed terror enabled and protected by the Israeli government and military. Its goal is to instill fear in the hearts of Indigenous Palestinians so they can be driven from their land once and for all.
On March 12, 2026, an illegal Jewish Israeli settler kidnapped a Palestinian man from the village of Beit Iksa, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, according to local sources. The sources told WAFA, the Palestinian Information Agency, that the settler abducted Issa Maher Zayed while he was heading to his land near a new colonial outpost established just days earlier on village property. Another day in the apartheid state of Israel — and they wonder why so much of the world condemns these actions.
In the United States, democratic legitimacy has increasingly been undermined by structural distortions embedded within the electoral system itself. For decades, political influence has been shaped not only by voters, but also by lobbying networks, corporate financing, and concentrated donor power, enabling organized economic interests to exert disproportionate influence over public policy. As a result, many scholars and observers have characterized the American political system less as a fully representative democracy and more as a plutocratic or post-democratic order, in which formal democratic institutions persist while substantive political power becomes increasingly concentrated among economic elites.
Although Donald Trump has never been modest about his abilities or reluctant to exercise personal power, during his second term in office he has shown clear signs of megalomania.
One sign, of course, is his blatant demand for the territory of other nations. Since January 2025 alone, he has suggested annexing or seizing control of Greenland, Canada, Mexico, the Panama Canal, Gaza, Venezuela, and Cuba. In addition, he has proclaimed the “Donroe Doctrine,” declaring that “American dominance in the Western Hemisphere will never be questioned again.”
The split in MAGA over Iran looms large, and Loomer says the nay-sayers are the Woke Reich. Democrat-ish leaders put their thumb on the candidate scale, and a new Florida history course says the American dream is made of gold—or, more likely, Teflon.
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