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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
- Aug 24, 2019
- 4 min
As Trump Unravels – Astonishment & Concerns Mount (#96)
Trump’s failures are piling up. China not only picked up Trump’s trade-war gauntlet but has repeatedly smacked him with it by openly declaring it will not give an inch; and by retaliatory tariffs that have hurt Trump where it counts, his ultra-fragile ego, his international public standing, his credibility as a master negotiator, and with some of his (now former) supporters, like the mid-western farmers. And just as Trump finished declaring “we are winning”, China smacked him
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Ashok Dhillon
- Nov 4, 2018
- 2 min
Trump’s Economy – Light Lifting (#78)
For this coming November 6th, mid-term election, Donald Trump has been taking credit for the ‘greatest economy ever, in the history of the Country’, unceasingly; and also for the greatest ‘stock market’ ever, and the greatest unemployment numbers, ever... and so on and so on. The economy and the stock markets have done well, and the unemployment numbers are really good, but most of the hard work was done by President Barack Obama, after the last Republican administration of G
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Ashok Dhillon
- Jun 10, 2018
- 5 min
With North Korea – Trump Retreads Bill Clinton’s Ground (#67)
Preamble: It could be argued that Democratic Presidents were better for the United States, generally speaking. From Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. onward - his leadership during the Great Depression and the Second World War was legend, as was John Kennedy himself, the Moon Landing (the ‘Camelot’ years), right on to Barack Obama, whose two terms were literally historic from being the first African-American President, to saving the World’s financial system from Republican (Bush)
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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
- Feb 3, 2018
- 4 min
Trump Doubles Down on Dismantling America (#58)
The America that Americans and the World knew no longer exists because of Trump’s latest actions. It is gone forever because of an unthinkable crossing of a line that had been held sacred by all previous Presidents and administrations. Trump, with the initiative and assistance of others in the Republican Party, has wilfully crossed the line of a President directly interfering in an ongoing FBI investigation, by openly discrediting and firing the senior most officials in the F
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Ashok Dhillon
- Jan 31, 2018
- 4 min
What a Trump State – Of the Union (#57)
The American political theatrics continued as Trump stoked the usual angst amongst all those that listened to him intone the tele-prompted State of the Union ('SOTU') address and acted ‘Presidential’ for the occasion. After this SOTU, Trump’s handlers, Republican law-makers of both Houses, and his supporters, all collectively breathed a sigh of relief and beamed their approval, because their President managed to stay on script, stuck to reading the teleprompter, didn’t flub t
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Ashok Dhillon
- Dec 2, 2017
- 5 min
Lies, Damn Lies - Trumpism (#54)
Since just over a year ago, when Republican Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump got elected as the next President of the United States, all norms expected of the American President’s Office and his administration’s behavior have been so violated that the extreme and outrageous abnormalities with which Donald Trump and his team of handpicked inner circle have behaved, is now the new normal of the absurd, bordering on the criminal. To think that a modern day American adminis
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Ashok Dhillon
- Oct 22, 2017
- 6 min
The Compromise of General John Kelly (#51)
Now-a-days, just being in the Trump White House is to risk contamination and compromise if you are a person of principals. The contamination is succumbing to the ever present virus that infects the White House now – lies damn lies, untruths and half-truths. It’s something that seems to be inevitable, like being too close to a powerful vortex that inevitably sucks you under, regardless of your standing before you get there. Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was in
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Ashok Dhillon
- Sep 23, 2017
- 7 min
The Speech That Confirmed Trump (#48)
On Tuesday the 19th, September 2017, the 45th President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump, gave his first speech to the United Nations (U.N.). The U.N. was a body formed after the global horror of the First and Second World Wars, to bring Nations together to resolve disputes and conflicts through dialogue, diplomacy, and negotiations, and to try its utmost to avoid the recurring horrors of inter-national wars, unnecessary violence and bloodshed. It was also tas
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Ashok Dhillon
- Jul 19, 2017
- 4 min
The Nine Lives Of ‘ObamaCare’ & Death of ‘TrumpCare’ (#43)
After almost 8 years of consistent effort of trying to kill ObamaCare, Mitch McConnell, fellow Republican Senators, and now the newly added and always addled President Donald J. Trump, failed yet again, spectacularly, to ‘immediately Repeal and Replace ObamaCare’. Their frantic, bumbling, conscienceless Republican 'TrumpCare’ Bill, hastily prepared, in darkness, a Bill designed to hurt the ordinary, the weak and the infirm American, in favor of the rich despotic and the entit
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Ashok Dhillon
- Jul 7, 2017
- 2 min
North Korea’s Challenge to Trump (#42)
When Donald Trump became President-elect of the United States of America, he let the World know that he would not allow North Korea to conduct any more missile tests. In fact, early this year and days before his Inauguration, upon being told that North Korea planned to carry out a missile test, he stated emphatically, by twitter, “It won’t happen!”. Well, it did happen, and many times. In fact so many times that Kim Jung-un, the Leader of North Korea, made a mockery of Trump
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Ashok Dhillon
- Jun 15, 2017
- 5 min
The On-Going Saga of Senate Hearings (#39)
Last week, the fired FBI Director James Comey’s testimony was a major league event in American politics. Large segments of the American and international audience were giddy with anticipation and excitement, and Comey didn’t disappoint as he gave a riveting testimony. Yesterday, Attorney General Jeff Session’s rebuttal to Comey’s testimony was looked forward to with the excitement of the next episode of an exciting television series. In reality, Session’s testimony and rebutt
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Ashok Dhillon
- Jun 2, 2017
- 4 min
Trump Jerks America Back – To the Past (#38)
Yesterday, June 1, 2017, at about 3.00 pm, President Donald J. Trump, announced, accompanied with his customary amateurish theatrics and dismal verbal flourishes, the obvious, that he was pulling America out of the Paris carbon emission mitigating ‘Agreement’ and marching it backwards. This was after teasing and titillating the entire World for a week in suspenseful silence, after his return from his foreign trip, as he supposedly reflected deeply on the planet changing choic
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Ashok Dhillon
- May 16, 2017
- 3 min
The Selling of America (#36)
The Republicans have sold America to commercial and political interests, domestic and foreign, to the point of significant setbacks for American credibility globally, with Donald Trump in the role of the battering ram that slams in daily incredulous sanity defying dents into what was once a recognizable America. It is quite extraordinary to watch the active betrayal of America’s interest, be it in policies that undermine the healthcare of the majority; or financial and consum
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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 14, 2017
- 4 min
ObamaCare → TrumpCare → RyanCare → NoOneCare (#29)
The American Health-Care system is one of the worst in the developed World. It ranks consistently far down the list of the best developed and even some under-developed country’s health care systems. And it’s not cheap, in fact it’s one of the most expensive per capita, yet, it belongs to the richest, most powerful, and one of the most innovative problem solving countries in the World. Source: OECD Health Statistics So what gives? Decades of emotional and heated political rhet
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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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