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remind you of.the waxworks scene in Sunset Boulevard and the Nazi ball in The Boys From Brazil?

As AOC tweets about Trump’s threat to obliterate Iraq’s cultural heritage, “It should also go without saying that sites like Persepolis (& its PEOPLE) are not only treasures to Iranians, they are gifts to humanity. “They tell humanity’s story – … Continue reading →

The morally bankrupt Trump administration never takes any responsibility for any action they take, and so now they are, true to form, trying to blame Obama for their catastrophic actions in Iran. Obama’s inability to rebut his actual enemies is … Continue reading →

Even if Congress was not. Dean Baker tweets: “very interesting that Lockheed’s stock went up 2.0 percent on Thursday, the day before the attack. Looks like a lot of people should go to jail”

They allowed the Republicans to strip out during reconciliation on the gargantuan “defense” bill amendments that would have imposed some restrictions on the way that Trump squandered this money. Once again, they deferred to the GOP, with the results that … Continue reading →

What does he get out of his relentless advocacy for mayhem? He’s highly dangerous, as demonstrated once again by his obscene gloating via tweet about the possibility of regime change in Iran. He has no idea what he’s doing, no … Continue reading →

These people’s track record of lies and catastrophically bad policy should have put them in outer media darkness by now but the corporate media is determined to incarnate them as voices of credibility and expertise. Julia Conley writes at Common … Continue reading →

He will do anything, anything to get re-elected and stave off an impeachment trial in the Senate. Starting a war with Iran is, for Trump, a no-brainer. Are the Democrats going to let him get away with it?

“They are all corrupt. They are all terrible people,” he said about the Ukrainians. Reprinted in the Times story about Mick Mulvaney’s pattern of lying about his role in the Ukraine scandal–and a whole lot of other stuff that went … Continue reading →

It’s probably just his latest excuse for opening more camps.