More news about how Trump betrayed the Kurds. John Bolton’s book reveals that Trump was completely ignorant and incompetent in his dealings with them, with Syria, and with Turkey. From The Washington Post: The most tragic story in John Bolton’s book

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…or maybe “President for life.” In any case, the BBC is reporting that John Bolton’s new book, The Room Where It Happened, says that Trump openly talked about changing the constitution so that he would have a third term, and maybe more. In a word, holy hell.  

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Interesting article in the Washington Post the other day, Blumenthal calls Bolton book manuscript ‘a thunderbolt’ by Mike DeBonis. It seems that Senator Richard Blumenthal (a Democrat from Connecticut) has seen a report of what’s in John Bolton’s upcoming book. He claims that tit will shake the Trump presidency right down to it foundations. The…

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William Happer has left the White House along with his friend John Bolton. That is a very good thing. Happer is among the world’s leading climate change denialists. And the one thing we don’t need right now is one of those in any position of power.      

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John Bolton is Trump’s “national security adviser.” That means he should be focused on things like, oh, I don’t know, the survival of the nation in a world filled with hostile powers and China and Russian and terrorists and all that good stuff. But, guess what, he’s not particularly interested in those things. What is…

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Editor’s Note: this story has been now out of date as a result of Trump’s abrupt cancellation of the summit entirely. Like we didn’t see that one coming…     Okay, Trump now says there is a “substantial” chance that his summit with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un will be delayed. That sound you just heard…

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By Michael Jay Tucker So, I read something short but significant the other day. It was just a few lines, really. Not even a full paragraph. But powerful… and terrible… all the same. Something that hints at our destruction. The passage in question is from Steven Simon’s essay, “Powder Keg In Syria,” in the current…

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