Today’s Wall St. Journal carries an article that once more raises the issue of money laundering, but unintentionally. An LLC called Flannery Associates has purchased $1 billion worth of land around a […]
USA Number One…. in money laundering
Russian refugees speak at meeting at Berkeley: Was/Is Trump in Putin’s pocket?
I attended this interesting meeting/presentation by Russian refugees Ilya Budraitskis and Ilya Matveev. Important issues were raised, but on one issue there is a serious question. But first a summary: The […]
Donald Trump: Different from Previous Republican Presidents
The news of Trump’s testing positive for Covid 19 has largely overridden discussion of his bullying behavior during the debate with Biden. This positive test is no accident. By continually engaging in […]
Impeachment hearings: One of three key events in Trump presidency
There have been all sorts of key moments in the Trump administration, but three stand out as true sign posts of the Trump method. Trump inauguration The first was on the very […]
Unbalanced Trump a crisis for US capitalism
Like a spoiled six-year old having a temper tantrum, Trump is flailing about and out of control. How can they keep any semblance of stability, how maintain respect by foreign forces as […]
Erdogan, the Kurds and Trump’s real “betrayal”
The invasion of NE Syria by Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is now under way. This is an invasion that is planned to be ten miles into that part of Syria. It […]
Trump impeachment: What lies behind it and what lies ahead
Ronald Reagan was called the teflon president because his embarrassing miscues and falsehoods seemed to roll off him like burned food does off of teflon. Trump makes Reagan a piker […]
Epstein arrest: a means of getting at Trump?
The procurer of young girls for the rich and famous – Jeffrey Epstein – has been arrested in New York. He had previously been convicted of similar crimes in Florida. In that […]
Trump and the reluctance to reckon with something fundamentally new
Socialists, and Marxists in particular, are often slow to fully see it when a sharp turn in the situation develops. Is that what’s happening now? Does Trump’s election represent a wide-scale loss […]
Putin, Trump and Pompeo
On Wednesday, May 1, Trump’s Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, warned that “military action is possible” in Venezuela. “If that’s what’s required, that’s what the United States will do,” he said. He also […]