The president’s latest National Security Strategy memorandum treats the freedom to coerce others as the essence of US sovereignty. It is an ominous document that will—if allowed to stand—come back to haunt the United States.
By Patrick Lawrence / Original to ScheerPost The Trumpster is not yet finished his first year back in the White House, and I cannot imagine how our crumbling republic will survive three more years of this man-child and the misfits and miscreants with whom he has surrounded himself. And it occurs to me lately that […]
By Michael Fox for Truthout On Wednesday, December 10, Donald Trump announced that the United States had seized a tanker in the Caribbean carrying more than 1.6 million barrels of Venezuelan crude oil. “Large tanker, very large, largest one ever, actually, and other things are happening,” Trump told the press. The seizure is only the latest move […]
By: Joshua Scheer A Democratic senator has raised alarms over President Donald Trump’s potential use of U.S. military strikes targeting American citizens on U.S. soil by using the same justification behind such strikes on alleged foreign drug trafficking vessels. In an interview with The Intercept, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) described the administration’s recent boat strikes […]
The revelation comes as Pete Hegseth faces scrutiny for a possible war crime, and as a judge pursues a contempt inquiry into the defiance of his order.