Myanmar’s military on Monday detained the country’s de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, declared a state of emergency, and took control of the government until a new election next year. Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy called for her immediate release. Reuters reported that her whereabouts since the siege is unknown. The U.N. Security Council planned...
Category: TRENDS IN GEOPOLITICS
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McCONNELL SELLS OUT TRUMP
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said last week that the mob who rioted at the Capitol earlier this month was “fed lies” and “provoked by the president,” which was the latest example of the Kentucky Republican trying to distance himself from Donald Trump. Mainstream media and the Democrat Party had widely blamed Trump for instigating...
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MORE “DUMP TRUMP”
Last week, we reported that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said, “The city of New York will no longer have anything to do with The Trump Organization” and they were severing contracts. We also noted that the PGA announced it had canceled its contract with the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.,...
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TRUMP REFILLS SWAMP HE PROMISED TO EMPTY
One of President Trump’s final moves in the White House was to turn back a rule he implemented that blocked former staffers from taking jobs at lobbying firms in Washington for five years after leaving their government jobs. Trump at the time said the move would limit the revolving door in D.C., which includes staffers...
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BIDEN’S INAUGURATION: AMERICA, LAND OF THE FREE?
Just weeks after the riots that rocked Capitol Hill, President Biden was sworn into office during an inauguration unlike any other in modern history – with a sparse crowd and some 30,000 military troops deployed throughout the city. The media and political hysteria leading up to Inauguration Day was that pro-Trump extremists would overrun the...
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BIDEN PRESIDENCY = OBAMA 2021
George Carlin, America’s late, great comedian, so accurately noted, “It’s one big club, and you ain’t in it.” With the election of Joe Biden as President of the United States, the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave, “Our Gang” is back in town. The facts are in the faces and the numbers. ...
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ITALY’S CONTE PREVAILS IN CONFIDENCE VOTE, NOW RESIGNS
Last week, Giuseppe Conte, the Italian prime minister, managed to survive a confidence vote in the country’s Senate, but he will have to work with a brittle government going forward. Failing to win an absolute majority, he won the vote by a 156-140 margin. Conte appealed to the ministers and told them that a government...
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BIDEN RECOGNIZES VENEZUELA’S GUAIDÓ AS PRESIDENT
Fading fast and unable to gain momentum, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó got a much-needed boost last week from President Biden after it was announced the U.S. will continue to recognize him as the country’s rightful president, Reuters reported. Guaidó has suffered a string of political losses since President Trump anointed him the president of Venezuela in...
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BLINKEN: KEEP U.S. EMBASSY IN JERUSALEM
Antony Blinken, President Biden’s nominee to lead the state department, said last week that the U.S. will keep its embassy in Israel located in Jerusalem, which he called the capital of Israel, AntiWar.com reported. Blinken was asked by Texas Senator Ted Cruz during a confirmation hearing about the policy put into place during the Trump administration in...
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ISRAEL TO BUILD MORE “SETTLEMENTS”
Last Tuesday, in violation of international law, the Israeli government approved 2,600 housing units in the West Bank and East Jerusalem during the final hours of Donald Trump’s presidency – a sign that Tel Aviv senses a new direction in U.S. policy during President Biden’s administration. The Associated Press, citing the anti-settlement/non-government organization “Peace Now,”...