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As Trump and friends claim control over the country, celebrating their war on migrants – “the enemy” of the moment, whom they’ve created and dehumanized – much of America writhes in shock and irony as it looks on.
The president who hates criminals is also our criminal-in-chief. But fortunately (for him), he’s above the law! Court rulings don’t apply to him – not when he’s busy keeping America safe from the boogeymen. To be an exalted leader, you need to keep a serious percentage of the populace in a state of simple-minded fear: The enemy are very, very bad people. They belong to gangs. They eat our pets. But I will protect you.
I’ll reopen Guantanamo. I’ll reopen Alcatraz. And the electorate can sigh with a sense of relief and safety. He’s bringing back our greatness – that is to say, our racist certainty. He’s recreating a country that real Americans can understand . . . one that’s like them.
In 1995, in Chicago, veterans of Silver Post No. 282 celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their victory over Japan, marching around a catering hall wearing their old service caps, pins, ribbons and medals. My father sat at his table, silent. He did not wear his medals.
My parents, Gil and Gladys Palast, on their wedding day during World War II.
President Biden left behind an economy that was pretty healthy, conventionally speaking. Unemployment was low and wages were rising, but stubbornly high costs of living opened a door for Donald Trump’s political comeback.
America is threatening to bomb, with nuclear weapons, the nuclear infrastructure of Iran, a country of 90 million people, even as our own Intelligence agencies admit Iran doesn’t have a nuclear weapon.
The fervor is growing in DC, as it did in the lead up to Israel’s instigation of America’s war with Iraq. Few in DC are thinking about the moral or physical consequences of America using nuclear weapons:
Deaths of millions, radiation poisoning of hundreds of millions of people in countries around the world, poisoning of water supplies, agricultural lands, food supplies. Sharp increase in cancers and other diseases.
This is a doomsday scenario, one that President Trump campaigned against, when he said we are ending the era of endless wars.
He criticized Biden for bombing Yemen and now he is authorizing it doing it. President Trump advocated to end wars by speaking to others, not bombing them.
Like many presidents before him, he is being influenced by others with a political agenda that does not reflect America’s interests.
Hard-core Zionists led by Benjamin Netanyahu want the U.S. to bomb Iran, just as they urged America to attack Iraq.
BANGKOK, Thailand -- China is tightening control over Tibet and flexing its strategic roof of the world advantage by cyber-spying on the Dalai Lama's supporters "worldwide from Lhasa to London," opening Tibet's international airport to Singapore and Nepal, and building the world's biggest hydroelectric dam on a glacier-fed river.
China prizes resource-rich Tibet's lofty Himalayan heights which allow the People's Liberation Army to "look down" on India, China's regional rival, and provide a formidable buffer between Beijing and New Delhi.
The United Kingdom's GCHQ intelligence agency meanwhile is warning Tibetan and foreign activists, researchers, and supporters of the self-exiled 14th Dalai Lama that they are in danger of infection from "malicious actors" who created international surveillance malware identified as MOONSHINE and BADBAZAAR.
The British government's National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) which is part of the GCHQ, said Chinese also created snooping apps deceptively resembling WhatsApp and Skype which allow text, audio, and video.
BANGKOK, Thailand -- It's a long way from China's Great Wall to Egypt's pyramids, but for the first time Chinese and Egyptian warplanes are conducting a joint military exercise above the Nile River, extending Beijing's reach into the African continent.
Chinese fighter jets, Airborne Early Warning and Control planes, aerial refueling tankers, and helicopter gunships have been roaring across the sky alongside Egyptian Air Force warplanes, after taking off from Egypt's Wadi Abu Rish Air Base in the desert.
The China-Egypt Eagles of Civilization 2025 joint air force exercise began on April 19 and ends in early May, and is expected to strengthen Beijing's links with Africa's strongest military and a strategic U.S. ally.
China maintains an East African naval base in Djibouti on the Red Sea.
Cairo, hoping to diversify, is now welcoming Beijing's interest and possible Chinese weapons sales.
