#untilthisdayhistoricalperspectivesonthenews — Public Fediverse posts

Imperial Washington: Ozymandias on the Potomac
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/26/imperial-washington-ozymandias-on-the-potomac/
Alfred W. McCoy on the role of energy over the past five centuries in fueling imperial supremacy and the current politics of American decline amid China’s green-energy ride to global power. By Alfred McCoy TomDispatch.com At the dawning of the…
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What the US Founders Feared Most
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/20/what-the-us-founders-feared-most/
Trump’s constitutional breaches are enough to rouse James Madison from his grave, writes Andrew P. Napolitano. On top of all that comes “The Kavanaugh Stop.” By Andrew P. Napolitano “The means of defense against foreign danger have been always the…
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Escalating the Escalation
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/18/escalating-the-escalation/
Greg Grandin provides a short history of the Long War on Drugs in Latin America from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump. By Greg Grandin TomDispatch Today, Donald Trump presides over his own Murder Incorporated, less a government than a death squad.…
#Politics #Commentary #LatinAmerica #Mexico #TrumpAdministration #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #Venezuela #Vietnam #AlfredMccoy #DrugCartels #DrugEnforcementAgency(dea) #DrugWar #GregGrandin #GulfOfAmerica #PresidentBarackObama #PresidentBillClinton #PresidentGeraldFord #PresidentRichardNixon #U.s.PresidentDonaldTrump #U.s.PresidentJoeBiden #VicePresidentJ.d.Vance #VietnamWar

Chris Hedges: The Banana Republic of the United States
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/12/chris-hedges-the-us-banana-republic/
Every dictatorship is a grotesque opera buffa. No encomium is too outrageous. No bribe too small. No violation of civil liberties too extreme. No stupidity too absurd. All dissent, no matter how tepid, is treason. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost El Presidente…
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Trump’s Attempt to Abridge Free Speech
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/11/13/trumps-attempt-to-abridge-free-speech/
Andrew P. Napolitano responds to a memo by Donald Trump calling antifa — which is an ideology — a domestic terrorism “organization” and directing federal law enforcement to disrupt its gatherings. By Andrew P. Napolitano While the country’s attention was drawn to…
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US Congress Revives Cold War Tactics With New Anti-Communism School Curriculum
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/12/18/us-congress-revives-cold-war-tactics-with-new-anti-communism-school-curriculum/
Alan MacLeod on the “Crucial Communism Teaching Act,” which is now being read in the U.S. Senate, where it is all but certain to pass. By Alan MacLeod MintPress News Congress has just passed a bill that will see the…
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