There is a somewhat troublesome backstory to President Donald Trump’s glorification of how Saturday’s U.S. forces attack on three Iranian nuclear sites that “completely obliterated” their targets was carried out without any declaration of war against a country that has not attacked and was not in any way threatening the United States.
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THE REAL NATIONAL EMERGENCY: ENDLESS WARS, FAILING INFRASTRUCTURE, AND A DYING REPUBLIC
Seventy years after President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned about the cost of a military-industrial complex, America is still stealing from its own people to fund a global empire.
THE SPECTACLE OF A POLICE STATE: THIS IS MARTIAL LAW WITHOUT A FORMAL DECLARATION OF WAR
In Trump’s America, the bar for martial law is no longer constitutional—it’s personal.
HOW A PRESIDENT BECOMES A DICTATOR: BY EXECUTIVE ORDER
“We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases.” — Ayn Rand
A FINANCIAL COUP: HOW THE DEEP STATE IS USING MANUFACTURED CRISES TO SEIZE POWER
What we’re witnessing is the calculated use of emergency powers to concentrate power in the hands of the president, enrich the Deep State, and dismantle what remains of economic and constitutional safeguards.
MAKING OUR RIGHTS DISAPPEAR: THE AUTHORITARIAN WAR ON DUE PROCESS
“If Trump can disappear them, he can disappear you.”—Robert Reich The war on due process is here.
BEYOND THE LAW: WHAT IT MEANS TO WEAPONIZE THE GOVERNMENT
“This is war.”—President Trump
President Trump’s declaration of war as a justification for using wartime powers to sidestep constitutional protections is indeed a war, but it is a war waged by the president against dissent, against due process, and against the very foundations of our constitutional republic.
THE DEATH OF FREE SPEECH IN AMERICA?
There should be little doubt in anyone’s mind that the “wag the dog” relationship between the United States and Israel has done terrible damage to American institutions and constitutional liberties.
WHEN DISSENT BECOMES A CRIME: THE WAR ON POLITICAL SPEECH BEGINS
You can’t have it both ways. You can’t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state.
THE DEEP STATE’S WAR ON TRUTH—WAGED WITH DOUBLESPEAK, DELUSION AND PROPAGANDA
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” — George Orwell