In March, China continued reducing its portfolio of U.S. treasury securities, dropping it behind the U.K. as the largest foreign owner of U.S. debt.
Tag: United States
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MARTIAL LAW DISGUISED AS LAW AND ORDER: THE OLDEST TRICK IN THE AUTHORITARIAN PLAYBOOK
“A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.”—James Madison
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CHINA ADVANCES SAFER NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY THE U.S. ABANDONED IN THE 1950s
Chinese scientists have refueled a nuclear reactor without shutting it down, the first time the feat has been achieved.
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ISRAEL AND THE U.S. ARMAMENTS INDUSTRY ARE ELBOWING ASIDE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS
Washington has approved a $310 million F-16 support package for Ukraine, and Trump threatens more sanctions for Russia.
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HOME INVASIONS ON THE RISE: CONSTITUTION-FREE POLICING IN TRUMP’S AMERICA
“One of the most essential branches of English liberty is the freedom of one’s house. A man’s house is his castle.”—James Otis, Revolutionary War activist, on the Writs of Assistance, 1761
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UKRAINE: ANOTHER DEAL WITH THE DEVIL
According to the statement from the U.S. Treasury on Wednesday afternoon, the newly created U.S.-Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund recognizes the "significant financial and material support."
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IS CHINA PLACING ‘AI EVERYWHERE’ FASTER THAN THE U.S.?
In the “anyone who hates my enemy is my friend” vein, some may have noticed a recent glut of stories positively spinning practically any policy or anti-U.S. statements by China.
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THE UNITED STATES HAS BECOME A TWO-TIER COUNTRY
I recently read an article by investigative historian Eric Zuesse, author of America’s Empire of Evil, that began “One of the core features of nazism (not the German political Party but its core ideology) is racism, which allows some ethnicities (or “races”) to be advantaged by law, and other ethnicities to be discriminated against by the law—it is, at its very core, AGAINST equal rights under law.”
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SOME NEW TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE
The news cycle over the past week has been dominated by reports and analysis of the Signal group chat involving top national security officials discussing aspects of the recent air strikes which have been directed against the Houthis in Yemen.
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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.
