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Ashok Dhillon
- Jan 6, 2020
- 5 min
Trump’s Preservation - vs - National & Global Security (#108)
In spite of Trump’s, and his administration’s rhetoric about self-defense in the killing of General Qassem Suleimani of Iran, it’s really about self-preservation of Trump, his failing administration, and the retention of power by the Republicans. And about Iran’s curse, its resources, particularly its vast reserves of oil and gas. When incumbent political power is in threat in America, it has often gone to ‘cooked-up’ wars, and this move again stinks of it. The age-old animos
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Ashok Dhillon
- Sep 17, 2019
- 5 min
Attack on Saudi Arabia – Iran the U.S. Target (#99)
The drone attacks on some of Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities were carried out by the Houthi rebels of Yemen (according to their own admission). The mainly Shia Muslim Houthi rebels, are fighting the majority Sunni government troops headed by President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi, who is backed by the Saudi and United Arab Emirate ‘Coalition’, which includes the United States, and possibly Israel. The ‘Coalition’ has through their indiscriminate air strikes and bombings of the Houthi
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Ashok Dhillon
- Jun 15, 2019
- 7 min
Trump’s Lawlessness & Failures Mount - Daily (#93)
The very public past life of Trump proved a number of things about the man: his obsession with public fame achieved through cringe-worthy and relentless self-promotion; his amoral ease with wrongdoing in personal and professional life; his need to lie blatantly, consistently and compulsively; his appalling hypocrisy in religious, political and patriotic idealism; and his complete disregard for the American Constitution, the rule-of-law, and the dignity of the Presidential Off
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Ashok Dhillon
- Apr 23, 2019
- 6 min
Old Scourges – Bad Leadership, Divisive Politics of Race & Religion (#88)
We have all collectively made it to the 21st Century, but we still suffer from the oldest scourges of humanity, the hate and divisiveness caused by the differences in our ideologies, our race and our religious beliefs that threaten our very lives. On a global scale, as countries vie for dominance and power over each other, wars rage on, be they actual wars, or more lately, racial, religious, ideological, and even trade and commerce wars. But regardless of their nature, they f
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Ashok Dhillon
- Mar 24, 2019
- 5 min
Trump An Instrument of God – To Save the Jews? (#85)
Trump An Instrument of God – To Save the Jews? Well at least that’s what US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, thinks is possible because of his ‘faith’. On his current visit to Israel, Pompeo was reportedly asked by an interviewer of the Christian Broadcasting Network, if - "President Trump right now has been sort of raised for such a time as this, just like Queen Esther, to help save the Jewish people from an Iranian menace". Pompeo’s response was reported to be - "As a Chris
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Ashok Dhillon
- Oct 24, 2018
- 4 min
A Murder Most Foul - And A Machiavellian Prince (#76)
The current World, which has been generally indifferent to mass murder of tens of thousands of people by ongoing wars, under some pretense of political necessity, the murder and possible butchering a one Saudi journalist, in a Saudi Consulate in Turkey, has inexplicably caught the attention of World and made it collectively retch in horror and disgust, perhaps by the sheer cold-blooded foulness of the deed. By most assessments, the killing was carried out by the direct order
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Ashok Dhillon
- Sep 11, 2018
- 5 min
The Tragedy of 9/11 – And Its Aftermath (#72)
On the anniversary of the tragic events of 9/11 in New York when the landmark Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were brought down with the use of civilian planes as bombs, along with the simultaneous attempt on the Pentagon Building, one reflects on the horrific event with its 3000 plus causalities, and its aftermath. The attack was precipitated by the desire of Islamic extremists to strike back at the United States, on its home soil, for what they perceived to be a long
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Ashok Dhillon
- May 23, 2018
- 6 min
Trump – Mueller – And the New America (#66)
It has been almost 16 months since Donald J. Trump became President of the United States. For 12 of those months, he has been under investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, for the possibility of his Campaign having colluded with Russian operatives to influence the 2016 Presidential Elections, in his favor. All evidence so far points to, at the very least, an unusually close and politically unhealthy relationship between Trump’s Campaign and Russia, and a concerted ef
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Ashok Dhillon
- Mar 7, 2018
- 6 min
America’s Nemesis – Trump (#60)
As one watches the daily turbulence and turmoil in America generated by one man alone, the President of the United State, Donald J. Trump, enabled by the morally challenged Republicans, one cannot but help but think the Americans deserve the government they currently have, one that widens the rich and poor gap, penalizes the poor in favor of giving advantages to the wealthy, strips consumer protection, allow greater destruction of the environment, won’t act on common sense so
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Ashok Dhillon
- Jan 15, 2018
- 5 min
It’s a Mad, Mad World, Full of ‘Fire and Fury’ (#56)
It is the start of the New Year, 2018, that is deep in the throes of old problems that continue to mount towards a messy climax. The problems of yesteryear, whether international like Brexit, the politics of EU, the Middle East and Iran, or North Korea and its circle of affected nations such as China, Japan and South Korea, or more localized, like the problems of a dysfunctional United States, have not only been carried into the New Year, but have taken on greater significanc
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Ashok Dhillon
- Nov 8, 2017
- 10 min
America’s Gun-Virus – Thank God It’s Not Contagious (#53)
Americans are deeply infected with a particularly virulent strain of the gun-virus. It is a form of disease that makes otherwise normal American human beings love and value their guns over the lives of their fellow American human beings. This is made possible by America’s unique gun ownership laws (there aren’t many, to speak of) which are unique amongst developed countries, making it the gun murder capital amongst its peer nations. The steady almost clockwork rising toll of
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Ashok Dhillon
- Jun 16, 2017
- 2 min
America’s Self Inflicted Wounds (#40)
The shooting at the Republican team baseball practice shocked the United States of America. The rest of the World was stunned by the incident but probably not that surprised, because internal ‘shootings’ have become an American thing, in the eyes of the developed World at least. Yes, far more gun related violence takes place in some of the Latin/South America countries, war torn countries of Middle East and North Africa, a few Eastern European countries, and in Asian countrie
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Ashok Dhillon
- Mar 30, 2017
- 4 min
The Bull That’s Wrecking America, Not The China Shop (#31)
Donald Trump is so destructive on so many fronts that he is like a rampaging Spanish Pamplona bull that got away from the sealed off running area and is now loose destroying the entire town, piling up causalities of every moral, physical, principal and policy description to the ever growing horror of all spectators. And like a rampaging bull there is no method to the madness, unlike the ‘Raging Bull’ where aggression was used strategically, this is sheer folly let loose in a
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Ashok Dhillon
- Mar 1, 2017
- 3 min
Crassness ‘Trump’ is Thy Name (#27)
There are approximately 7 Billion people in this World, of which far too many are particularly crass and crude as far as human civility goes, and one could argue they contribute significantly to the high level of conflict and contention currently rife everywhere. And then to add to the North American and global civility woes, comes Donald Trump, and takes dishonesty, incivility, pure crassness, and to this point at least, utter incompetence to an entirely new level. Trump’s d
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Ashok Dhillon
- Feb 25, 2017
- 4 min
A New Political Order – Steve Bannon (#26)
At the recent Conservative Political Action Congress (CPAC), on February, 22-25, 2017, an annual gathering of American Conservative activists, Steve Bannon had his long sought after day in the sun. Emerging from relative obscurity, nationally and internationally, as Donald Trump’s new campaign manager, Steve Bannon finally had the center stage at an event where previously he had been consistently sidelined because of his uncomfortable, bordering on extreme, controversial view
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Ashok Dhillon
- Feb 4, 2017
- 10 min
‘Alternative-Facts’ Rule America (#24)
Trump’s campaign manager and White House advisor, KellyAnne Conway, made famous the words ‘alternative- facts’ when describing his Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s less than accurate version of the size of the crowd, and the overall turnout at the inauguration of Trump. Now, ‘alternative-facts’ has become a popular catch-all phrase to describe untruthfulness and willful distortion of real facts. In these tumultuous early days of Trump’s Presidency, the Country has been inundated
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