National Security

The Arizona Republic should follow the lead of the Los Angeles Times’ editorial calling for Donald Trump’s impeachment

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Pseudo-intellectual and resident GOP apologist at the Arizona Republic, Robert Robb, continues his series of opinions today excusing Donald Trump’s extortion and bribery of U.S. ally Ukraine, using taxpayer money appropriated by Congress for desperately needed security assistance to Ukraine as leverage to open an investigation into Russian-inspired conspiracy theories about the 2016 election to blame … Read more

North Korea warning: ‘it is entirely up to the US what Christmas gift it will select’

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The next few weeks may be critical for US-North Korean diplomacy. North Korean missile and Kim Jong-un’s ‘Christmas gift’ decision: Talks with Donald Trump have not gone according to plan. Strict economic sanctions remain in place and it appears Washington is not going to budge despite Pyongyang’s insistence that they come up with another deal … Read more

‘Rootin’ for Putin’ Republicans plot to disrupt the House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearings

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The House Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings today with an academic discussion from legal scholars of what constitutes an impeachable offense. But the thugs in the Trump criminal enterprise that is the Party of Trump have other designs. Their goal is to disrupt, distract and discredit the impeachment hearings with their own obstruction of Congress … Read more

Impeachment: Not just Donald Trump, but the lawless and amoral Party of Trump is on trial

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On Monday, House Republicans issued an impeachment prebuttal ahead of the House Judiciary Committee hearing on impeachment scheduled for Wednesday. It is a shocking exercise in alternative reality disinformation and propaganda based upon a Russian-inspired conspiracy theory. These “Rootin’ for Putin” Republicans are all Kremlin propagandists now. As I have said before, the Party of … Read more