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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 30, 2018
- 8 min
The Kavanaugh Battle – America’s Civil War (#74)
Some of these truths are self-evident. America has always been divided, coming together only briefly to confront external enemies, the recent standout moments being the Second World War when it was attacked by Japan, and the aftermath of 9/11 when it was attacked by Islamic extremists, mostly from Saudi Arabia. Except for such times, America has always been divided along racial, religious, cultural, ideological, and economic lines, much like most countries. Where America diff
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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
- Aug 27, 2018
- 3 min
John McCain, A Rare American Republican (#71)
Senator John McCain, an authentic American war hero, a man of great courage, strength and integrity, a life-long bipartisan public servant, a rare politician with character, and conscience, died on August 25th, 2018 after battling a rare case of aggressive brain cancer, a few days before his birthdate of August 29th, he was 81 years of age. The son and grandson of Navy Admirals, John McCain followed in the family tradition and became a distinguished navy pilot, receiving nume
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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
- 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 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
- 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
- Oct 2, 2017
- 5 min
An American Mass Murder So Horrific - ISIS wants to own it! (#50)
Since the mass murder in Las Vegas last night, an act of internal terror, the American news has been tying itself in knots trying to understand why a seemingly ordinary (a supposed real estate millionaire not a disenfranchised struggling angry American), retired 64 years old from a ‘sleepy’ town in Nevada, would massacre ordinary pleasure seeking fellow Americans, at a Country Western Music Concert in the city of pleasure itself, Las Vegas. So far neither the news media, nor
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