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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
- Dec 17, 2019
- 5 min
America’s Famed Constitution – Rendered Toothless (#106)
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
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Ashok Dhillon
- Dec 14, 2019
- 4 min
Boris Gets BREXIT - Trump Gets Impeachment (#105)
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
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Ashok Dhillon
- Dec 4, 2019
- 5 min
The Trump-Republican Train Wreck – Just Keeps Going (#104)
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
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Ashok Dhillon
- Nov 27, 2019
- 6 min
The Republican God Delusion – King Trump? (#103)
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
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Ashok Dhillon
- Nov 16, 2019
- 2 min
Trump Republican Mob - Vs - The USA (#102)
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
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Ashok Dhillon
- Oct 15, 2019
- 5 min
Trump’s Bizarre Hold - On Cowed Republicans (#101)
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
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Ashok Dhillon
- Oct 2, 2019
- 4 min
The Battle for America – In the Time of Trump (#100)
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
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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
- Sep 11, 2019
- 4 min
Distemper in the White House – Casualty John Bolton (#98)
To put a point on the mentally unstable nature of Donald Trump’s White House, the ouster of John Bolton quickly deteriorated into a childishly public spat, with Trump announcing on twitter that he had ‘fired’ Bolton, and Bolton almost immediately firing back, on twitter, that he had ‘resigned’ first! This is the ‘State of Affairs’ in the World’s most powerful nation’s innermost sanctum, the White House; peevishly immature minds in control. Bolton was the 3rd National Security
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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
- Jul 11, 2019
- 5 min
How Trump is Making America - Small Again (#95)
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
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Ashok Dhillon
- Jun 27, 2019
- 4 min
Women’s World Cup 2019 – Wow! (#94)
It was purely by accident that we became aware of the ‘2019 FIFA Women’s World Cup’. The reason being that there was shamefully little promotion of the coming games before they started on June 7th, 2019. In fact, compared to the massive global hoopla that precedes the men’s FIFA World Cup, there was no coverage whatsoever on regular media or any special promotions by FIFA that would make the average person aware of the impending games. And that, as we said, was a real shame,
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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
- Jun 3, 2019
- 4 min
Trump, Farage & The Far-Right – Want You to Forget (#92)
Of late, there is an arrogant rise of the 'Far-Right'; arrogant, because the attitudes and messages espoused by the many proponents of 'Right-Wing' Nationalism today are stated with the confidence of proven experience, while the World’s recent history and experience is in direct contradiction to it all. Currently, this Right-Wing movement’s most famous proponents are – Trump and Steve Bannon of the United States, Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson of the UK, Marie Le Pen of Franc
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Ashok Dhillon
- May 23, 2019
- 5 min
As Risks Rise – So Seems Market Confidence. What gives? (#90)
Global tensions and adverse developments are at an all time high. Yet, except for brief pullbacks the major stock markets, especially USA’s, seem to take all the global business and political setbacks in stride, and almost immediately return to their positive territory. This upward repeating action does not reflect the current global economic reality, but as in the recent past, it seems to extend the undefeatable attitude of the full-on ‘Quantitative Easing’ (QE) times when t
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Ashok Dhillon
- May 5, 2019
- 6 min
How Is Little Russia - Wagging Big Dog America? (#89)
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
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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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