Donald Trump is the sharer of secrets, most compulsively, and fatally, his own. Trump puts the implausible into deniability. The president, who suffers from an advanced case of Tweet-and-Mouth disease, has the habit of undermining his own legal defenses only hours after they are erected. Driven by the gnawing hunger of his own ego, Trump has now manufactured a political crisis which will pitch those associates who lied on his behalf into the grinder of a prosecutorial inquiry. Some of them even deserve it. More

President Donald J. Trump closed out his first hundred days in office on April 29. Not marked by any notable achievements, Trump’s first hundred days did yield an impressive and ever-lengthening list of scandals.

And war crimes. During his short time in office, Trump has racked up an impressive list of war crimes. Congratulations, Mr. President! More

United States-of-Americans are routinely told by politicians and corporate media pundits and talking heads that Russia is their enemy – an “adversary state.” The assertion has been normalized. It passes without challenge or justification.

Forget for now the question of whether and how “our adversary Russia” intervened significantly on Donald Trump’s behalf in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Put aside the glaring absence of any smoking gun evidence to back that charge up and contemplate the fundamental matter of how and why Vladimir Putin’s Russia became “our enemy” in the first place. More