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Trump Is Insourcing Jobs from China, Outsourcing Prisons to El Salvador, Defying Judges at Home

Tuesday, March 18, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
scenes from El Salvador prison for gang members

Trump takes jingoistic pride in forcing US companies to bring manufacturing jobs back to America. If they refuse, he threatens tariffs that would make exporting foreign-made products back to the US prohibitively expensive. And he couldn’t care less if this wrecks the global economy – so long as he can claim he’s making manufacturing in… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: America, Authoritarianism, border crisis, dictatorship, El Salvador, human rights, immigration, iPINIONS, Nayib Bukele, Supreme Court, Tariffs, Trump, U.S. Courts, US manufacturing

Trump Making Example of Gen. Milley that Putin Made of Oligarch Khodorkovsky

Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
Trump exacting retribution against Gen. Milley with images inset with Hegseth and Putin with Khodorkovsky

As his first official act, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revoked retired Gen. Mark A. Milley’s security detail, suspended his security clearance, and launched an inspector general inquiry into his tenure as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. During his confirmation process, Hegseth preached “military lethality” as his sole mission. This brazen act of political… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: Authoritarianism, dictatorship, Gen. Milley, Khodorkovsky, military purge, Pete Hegseth, Putin, Trump, U.S. military, White House

Putin’s Travel Warning: Russians Told to Shun the West!

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 at 10:48 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
image of Rusian and US flags with inset of statues of North Korea leaders and Putin with Kim

Russia has warned its citizens they might be “hunted” if they travel to the US or other Western countries. But this warning reeks of projection and gaslighting — now the hallmarks of Russia’s dealings with the West. After all, Russia has turned arresting Americans and other Westerners on trumped-up charges into a cottage industry, using… Read more.

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Filed Under: General Tagged With: dictatorship, Kim Jong-un, Putin, Russia, Travel ban, Ukraine War, Western countries

Miami Cubans Dancing on Castro’s Grave Is Premature

Wednesday, August 2, 2006 at 7:21 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Reports that emergency surgery forced Fidel to transfer power to his brother Raúl a few days ago had Miami Cubans dancing in the streets yesterday. Their reaction did not surprise me. But I was stupefied. After all, their celebration not only betrayed their naiveté about the implications of this transfer, but also indicated how much wasted emotion and… Read more.

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Filed Under: International Affairs Tagged With: Cuba, Cuba embargo, Cuban exiles, dictatorship, Fidel Castro, Miami Cubans, Raul Castro, US foreign policy

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