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

Donald Trump as US President earned his Impeachment, by diligent daily effort. From the time he announced his running for the US Presidency, Trump started to work towards eventually getting impeached. And whatever his faults, and there are plenty, one cannot fault him for not being diligent enough as the most unfit person to be the President of the United States of America; and his reward for being so consistent in being unfit, the day he was finally impeached. From the time

The Impeachment of President Donald Trump fast approaches, perhaps as quickly as this week. And, it is the general consensus that the Democrat controlled House of Representatives will most likely vote to Impeach Trump, making him the third President in United States history to be Impeached. But that is where the certainty of Impeachment stops. Because after that will come the trial in the Senate, and it is almost assured that there, Trump will be acquitted by the Republican-c

In the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson played a high stakes political game and won big. In the United States, the Democrats will get what they worked long and hard for, a crime inclined Donald Trump impeached; but most likely not removed. Hampered with a minority government and consistent parliamentary opposition to getting multiple versions of Brexit done, which deeply divided Britain, Boris called a snap election with the hope that the fever pitch frustration of the British p

For years the Republicans looked and hoped for a man who could lead them with a fearlessness that was not squeamish of taking on the whole governing system. And they wanted someone who would disregard all the rules that till now had held them back in their frustrated desire to chuck the shackles of Constitutional requirements, and free them from all constraints of democratic, proper behavior. Republicans wanted a despot, and in 2016 they finally found their man in Donald J. T

American Republican Party’s hypocrisy has long been noted around the World. What with their tireless efforts to tamper with democracy itself, with planned and active suppression of Black American and minority votes through ‘Gerrymandering’; their opposition to abortion, except when one of their politician requires it, hush-hush of course; their believing in the sanctity of ‘unborn life’ but not in lives taken almost daily, because ‘guns’ are more sacred than American lives, o

All organized crime depends on two things to flourish, corruptibility of the system and intimidation. In America today, the World watched as the Republican Mob Boss, US President Donald J. Trump openly intimidated a Witness, Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, while she was giving testimony in the Impeachment Hearings. Ironically, she was testifying to the corrupting of the US State Department and American Foreign Policy, by corrupt foreign interests aided by corrupt American gover

One of the great mysteries of our time is how a bombastic, immoral, insufferable, narcissistic clod, and a pathological liar, Donald J. Trump, managed to so easily cow the Republican Party into fearful surrender. In spite of all his past and current failures, like his multitude of failed businesses and bankruptcies, multiple failed marriages, his lack of principles, ethics and integrity, his dubious claim to net wealth, and a demonstrably failed Presidency with not much to sh

For ages there has been an ongoing battle for the emergent soul of America. The nation was born of a colonial past and the constant battle for new territories and supremacy among the then competing world powers of Europe and England. America’s emergence was soaked in conquest, rebellion, violence, genocide of the natives, and the shattered lives and blood of African slaves. Out of this violent past came a new nation that has become the supreme power in the world as it develop

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

It took America some 241 years from the ‘Declaration of Independence’ to become the Leading Country in the World, economically, militarily and politically - in other words, ‘Great’ - politically, economically, and militarily. On the World Stage, it took Trump about two years to make America very small again, by doing all the things that brought the very legitimacy of the US Presidential Elections into question; by appointing people in high places that have ended-up under crim

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

Modern day Russia is tiny, in every critical aspect of global power, to the one and only true ‘Super-Power’ in the World today – The United States of America – (except geographically, of course). Yet it seems to be in almost complete command of America’s administration through the abjectly servile Donald J. Trump, who cannot help but bow and scrape in front of the diminutive Vladimir Putin, as does his administration, and the enablers - the Republican Senators and Congressmen

Finally, reportedly, there are murmurs of discontent surfacing from Robert Mueller’s investigators that ‘Attorney General William Barr did not do the Mueller Report justice’, in his 4-page summary. It is possibly the most significant, cynical understatement of the year. Significant, because on it hangs the truth about Trump and his teams activities during and after the Election Campaign; cynical, because for years now the Republican Party has proven itself unable to tell the

Infamously now, Paul Manafort got a huge break from Judge T. S. Ellis, the III, no-less, who sentenced Manafort to 47 months, for crimes which required a jail sentence somewhere between 19 to 24 years. The outrageously lenient sentence created a furor in America, as commentators, legal experts and most law-makers expressed shock and disbelief at the brevity of the sentence and the injustice of the Judge in flaunting legal precedents and minimum sentence requirements. Judge T.

America is in the midst of a political civil war, and it’s about a ‘Wall’. This wall, or the lack of it, promised by President Trump to his supporters, is to be built on the country’s southern border with Mexico to keep migrants, refugees, asylum seekers, drugs, criminals, terrorists, and all other means of evil from America the ‘Promised Land’. To the World’s oppressed, persecuted, and poor, and those that just want to partake, or have a shot at, the proverbial ‘American Dre

When a dangerously ignorant person is elected to the highest office in the land, the country is going to suffer grievously, sooner than later. At the end of the year, 2018, almost two years into Donald Trump’s Presidency, America is looking incredibly dysfunctional, corrupt, divided, and more as a ‘Banana Republic’ in its governance, than the leader of the Free World; and Trump is wholly responsible. This transformation, from a somewhat bruised but still respected World leade

Lately, as business and economic realities made their presence felt in falling financial markets, tech companies descending from their extraordinary peaks, retailer bankruptcies (like Sears), General Motors (GM) auto plant closures, steadily rising rates from their historic lows, and softening of the economic outlook, America that prided itself as the ‘free market’ champion of the world, once again became ‘Socialist/Communist’ and dictated a reversal to the downturn by politi

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

America has been slowly but steadily coming off the rails for many a decade. But since Donald Trump’s Presidency, it is completely off the rails, and has become the ‘drunk’ at the Party that is destroying all norms of civil behavior much to the alarm and chagrin of the rest of the civilized, democratic World (not much of it left). Conversely, America’s self destructive behavior is causing great delight in its historic adversaries such as Russia, China, and the rest of the aut