Tag: Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • Law, Not Crime, Has Come From South of the Border

    Not so much criminals as the foundations of the rule of law — that is what has infiltrated the United States from Latin America. That seems to be a major thread running through Greg Grandin’s wonderful new history of the hemisphere, America, América: A New History of the New World. It’s a book you can dive back […]

  • U.S. SecDef Lloyd Austin’s NATO Speech Lies

    U.S. SecDef Lloyd Austin’s NATO Speech Lies

    In an enthusiastically received speech on July 10 to the Washington DC 75th Anniversary NATO Summit, U.S. Secretary of Defense and ‘former’ Raytheon Corporation board member Lloyd Austin strung together lies by the U.S. empire in order to reverse the imperialistic guilt of the U.S. Government for starting the Cold War in order to conquer […]

  • Losing World War II

    Losing World War II

    British Prime Minister Winston Churchill desperately tried to persuade United States President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to declare war on Germany and enter World War II. The U.S. president recognized Nazi Germany’s threat to Western civilization and U.S. interests but his intuition told him that the American people were not ready for battle. Complicating a proposed […]

  • Shaping the Political Race

    The divisive America of today longs for the time when the country united in one mission and selected a leader it could trust to accomplish the mission. The year is 1940 and the New York Times estimates that incumbent president, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (FDR), a non-declared and drafted candidate for the Democratic Party (D) […]

  • Flagging Support: Zelenskyy Loses Favour in Washington

    Things did not go so well this time around. When the worn Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy turned up banging on the doors of Washington’s powerful on September 21, he found fewer open hearts and an increasingly large number of closed wallets. The old ogre of national self-interest seemed to be presiding and was in no […]

  • A Daft Policy: The US Economic Strangulation of China

    The broad lament from commentators about global economic growth is that China is not pulling its weight.  Not enough is being done to stir the sinews and warm the blood, at least when it comes to the GDP counters.  And many such pundits hail from countries, most prominently the United States, which have done everything […]

  • Biden’s tepid response to Maui’s furnace-hot cataclysm

    Pablum. “Jill and I send our deepest condolences to the families…” buh buh bup bup buhhh. “…our prayers are with those who have seen their homes…” yada yada yada. “…grateful to the brave firefighters and first responders…” wretch, gag, hurl. Weak. fucking. tea. And it took this papier-mâché president of ours a day AFTER the […]

  • Why The Most Urgent Need, in Order to Prevent WW III, Is to End All Military Alliances Now

    Why The Most Urgent Need, in Order to Prevent WW III, Is to End All Military Alliances Now

    World Wars I and II were contests between empires, and so America’s President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) was determined that after WW II, all empires would be outlawed and all international relations (between nations) would be controlled only by a global all-inclusive federation of nations, which in 1941 he referred to would be called “the […]

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