Tag Archives: United States

The U.S. Government and the Major Banks: Justice for Sale at the Bazaar

To date, not a single top banker has been put on trial, let alone sent to prison, for the frauds perpetrated by the institutions they lead.

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Different Under Trump? Why Russia Grates Americans So Much

The reemergence of US’s erstwhile counterpart from the bipolar world order is an uncomfortable reminder that the presumed age of American hegemony is history.

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Trump’s Middle East: Back to the Future

The U.S. government under Trump may be on the verge of returning to the old policy of transaction-based support of autocratic regimes in the Middle East.

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Global Upheaval: The Sad New Normal

Instead of strengthening and stabilizing institutions, we are allowing them to fall.

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Big Money Entanglements for Trump’s Nominees

Will the tangled finances of vastly wealthy leaders of the US administration become a possible cause for corruption concerns?

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Dreaming of Democracy: High Time to Nullify the Electoral College

A national direct elections compact concluded by the major states is the only way to ensure that future U.S. Presidents will have been elected by a plurality of Americans.

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From the American Challenge to the Chinese Challenge?

The unfolding Western effort to paint a picture of a benign America and a malign China is a distortion of the historical truth.

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Illustrations of U.S. interventionism

The West can’t blame China for its aggressive stance and whitewash its own imperialism.

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Trump Must Prepare for Showdown with China

An increasingly assertive China poses the most vexing and far reaching challenges for American prosperity and security.

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Rex Tillerson: Perfection of the Bush Stratagem

Is Donald Trump trying to resurrect the times of “Big Oil” – now via the U.S. State Department?

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