The Guardian on the reality of Covid-19: Beyond blind optimism
What if we don’t come up with an effective vacine for the new coronavirus? How long is it likely to take, even if we do,…
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Le Monde, France’s leading newspaper, denounces Trump Administration’s assault on the Rule of Law
New profiles in courage: Votes to convict Donald Trump in the impeachment trial
Putin plans to enshrine rejection of international law in Russian constitution
Trump and House Articles of Impeachment: The Rule of Law in Retreat
Trump tells Zelensky to get together with Putin and work out their problem
The Impeachment Inquiry as a tool for educating the American people and electorate
News Reports: CIA concludes Saudi Crown Prince ordered Kashoggi assassination
Cri du Coeur: Trump the Wrecking Ball and how friends can help
Lost in the weeds, Trump critics fail to counter Trump propaganda
Trump’s critics do not understand how propaganda works, and how they must counter it. Following the unfolding drama of revelations about Trump’s crimes and those…
Apparent Obstruction of Justice by Trump on an ongoing basis, and Congressmen who appear to be engaged in a conspiracy to obstruct justice
DRAFT -DEVELOPING 18 USC Ch. 73: OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE From Title 18—CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDUREPART I—CRIMES §1505. Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees…
America and the Rule of Law, today
Developing Americans are used to thinking that “the struggle for the rule of law” refers to the struggles of other peoples in foreign lands…
Sexual harassment allegations and mob justice: Senator Al Franken and Garrison Keillor
For a critique of the violation of due process norms and the rule of law in the current hysteria over alleged sexual harassment of women…
“Government of the billionaires, by the billionaires and for the billionaires” — Lincoln at Gettysburg and the GOP in 2017
The Republican Party and Lincoln at Gettysburg: “That government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from this earth”…
Censored by Google: September 7, 2017 article on Christopher Steel dossier, and many more
UPDATE October 25, 2017 The Trenchant Observer has a serious problem, and it is not clear how it might be solved. The problem is that…
Trump’s implementation of Putin’s goals
With the day-to-day revelations about President Donald Trump and his and his associates’ contacts with Russians and their potential conspiracy to intervene in the 2016 U.S. elections, it is easy to lose sight of how pro-Russian U.S. foreign policy under Trump has become, and the ways in which Trump is implementing policies which further Vladimir Putin’s and Russia’s goals.
Mary Ilyushina and Hilary Clarke, “Russia warns US over seized diplomatic compounds,” CNN Politics, Tue July 18, 2017Updated 1:54 AM ET,
Russia threatens U.S. if seized compounds in Maryland and New York not returned
See Krishnadev Calamur, “Russia Threatens to Expel 30 U.S. Diplomats; Moscow is angry about the Trump administration’s refusal to return two diplomatic compounds seized last…
Putin is winning, as West mounts no defense to illegal Russian intervention in elections
Developing Former Solidarity leader and former Polish President Lech Walensa, commenting on Putin, has said: “He broke agreements, contracts, guarantees. The world cannot just leave…
The United States: A democracy under threat, with democrats (of all parties) asleep
Developing The United States is currently in one of the most dramatic situations imaginable: Russia intervened in the November 8, 2016 elections to favor Donald…