Category Archives: 2016 Election

Victorians’ Secret: Trump, god-emperor of Afghanistan and Erik Prince (of thieves) as Viceroy

Posted on August 8, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Moscow (CNN) Money, the saying goes, can’t buy love. But $10,000 will buy you the perfect Donald Trump inauguration keepsake — a coin with the words “In Trump we trust.” It’s the handiwork of a Russian mining … Continue reading →

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Today in Heightened Contradictions … McMaster bait

Posted on August 5, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers The national security adviser, H.R. McMaster, has removed three NSC aides loyal to Trump aide Steve Bannon in the last three weeks. Bannon allies inside and outside the administration have fired back, starting rumors that McMaster is … Continue reading →

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James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce… Donald Trump – Worst.Presidents.Ever

Posted on August 2, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Who make up the Top 10 presidents on the Presidential Historians Survey? They are, in descending order: Lincoln, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Harry Truman, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, Reagan, and … Continue reading →

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Nothing Personal. Just Business

Posted on August 1, 2017 by Terry Welshans

I have owned and operated a few businesses over the last 60 years, and I have studied business law, drawn contracts and agreements, but do not have an advanced degree. I have taught as an adjunct professor at a college … Continue reading →

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Life has always been socialized even as death is solitary

Posted on July 30, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Ultimately it’s never a choice between socialist death and capitalist death. It is about actions that become necessary as we suffer this century’s latest strategy of tensions. Life and death is easier for some psychopaths. Worse now … Continue reading →

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Hacking the Vote: Part II

Posted on July 27, 2017 by Terry Welshans

I recently wrote about how voting machines could be hacked. There is a second way the vote can be hacked with no one finding out, if cleverly done. Today, the web site Mother Jones published an article that someone is … Continue reading →

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President Bait and Vice President Switch

Posted on July 22, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers we may be seeing the rise of a particular strategy on the right—sometimes gripping part of the GOP, and sometimes all of it—that can be traced back to that noted conservative Vladimir Lenin. I speak of “heightening … Continue reading →

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The Trumpian Hollymoon is over … now the Russian appeasement grows.

Posted on July 20, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Much like the GOP and Trump have peddled the meme that PBO/HRC “created” ISIS, now DJT* has decided to capitulate (bend over backward, Ben Dover) to Putin, where the Syrian conflict will generate new memes for 45*, … Continue reading →

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So many Trump mistakes, so little time left

Posted on July 19, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Joshua Green’s book Devils Bargain contains a hypothetical about Bannon’s failure to drive yet another wedge in the Democrats is a bit fantastic because the havoc aimed at immigration was always a much easier lift at the … Continue reading →

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Veer (to the center again), but Trust no Fly … Why a Democrat neo-conservative alliance is an old, bad idea

Posted on July 17, 2017 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   Glenn Greenwald writes another warning of the fundamental problems of the Democratic party and its foreign policy history as rooted in neoconservative ideologies, or at least a susceptibility to them. It may seem oxymoronic to consider … Continue reading →

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