Most American students have been taught in their K-12 American history classes that the Civil War ended on April 9, 1865, when Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his Army of Northern Virginia to the Union’s General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia. But it would be more than 16 months before President … Read more
Donald Trump has repeatedly done the bidding of his puppet master, Vladimir Putin. Trump has been demanding for years that the G-7 readmit Russia to make it the G-8 again, after Russia was kicked out in 2014 and sanctioned for its annexation of Crimea and invasion of Ukraine – the first such hostile invasion of … Read more
This week, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan will have a hearing before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to answer accusations of bias made by Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser. Judge Sullivan declined to accept the Department of Justice’s motion to dismiss the guilty plea entered by Michael Flynn … Read more
You would never know that this country is in the midsts of a global pandemic in which we will reach 100,000 confirmed deaths by this weekend, and an economic depression on par with the Great Depression of the 1930s. Donald Trump and his Republican enablers in Congress do not want to address these overwhelming problems, … Read more
When the history of this era is written the most remarkable story told will be how a failed state, the gangster kleptocracy of Vladimir Putin’s Russia, was able to defeat the most powerful democracy and defender of freedom in the world, the United States, by coopting one of its major political parties, and getting a … Read more