Trump 2.0–Project 2025 Gone Haywire
A Right-Wing Plan Without Right-Wing Guardrails by Mark M. Bello There is a dangerous misconception taking hold in American political discourse: that Donald Trump’s second term is merely a louder, more chaotic rerun of his first. It isn’t. It is far worse. Remember Project 2025? This was a plan, designed by the far right to […]
Sauna Diplomacy Meets a Bully: Trump’s Greenland Fantasy
Greed, Not Peace: Trump’s Board of Extortion by Bob Gatty Donald Trump, who’s threatening to attack Greenland because Norway hasn’t given him the Nobel Peace Prize, is in hot water with European leaders who are resisting his threat to take over that tiny country that’s home to less than 60,000 people and a bunch of […]
Who Decides Justice?
Why Elections Are Vital to the Concept of Justice For All by Mark M. Bello Familiar with the name Mahmoud Khalil? He’s the Columbia University graduate and pro-Palestinian protester who was jailed for months by the Trump administration. Obviously, as a strong supporter of Israel, I do not support his views on the Israel-Hamas conflict, […]
When “Insurrection” Is Convenient: Trump, Minneapolis, and the Politics of Hypocrisy
By Mark M. Bello President Donald Trump’s latest threat to invoke the Insurrection Act — a rarely used 1807 law that would allow him to send the U.S. military into American cities — exposes a startling hypocrisy in how this administration defines “insurrection.” Trump publicly announced Thursday that he might deploy troops to Minnesota to […]
Sanity Tries to Restore Itself—and Gets Shoved Out the Door
Will America to Come to its Senses Again? by Mark M. Bello It’s happened before. Every so often, American politics produces moments where citizens must feel they live in some alternative universe. But then . . . A politician tones it down, two opponents speak like adults, or someone once fueled by outrage suddenly […]
Venezuela: Drugs, Oil, and the Politics of Power
Questions about America’s Motives and Interests by Mark M. Bello In the early hours of January 2, the United States did something extraordinarily dangerous. Was it in our country’s national interest? Time will tell. A foreign head of state—Nicolás Maduro—was seized, removed from his country, and transported to New York to face criminal charges. Shortly […]
Enough is Enough Already
by Rick Comfort Sixteen failed companies, six bankruptcies, 34 felony convictions for fraud; found liable for sexual assault, tore down part of the Whitehouse complex, cancelled foreign AID, added his name to Kennedy Center and other buildings, deported US citizens, plus not honoring other Administrations’ immigration policies for select countries, using Military to patrol American […]
Proudly Deranged: Join ATDC
By Mark M. Bello By now, you have heard the phrase “Trump Derangement Syndrome” tossed around casually by Donald Trump and his defenders. Most recently, our despicable POTUS used the phrase to describe filmmaker Rob Reiner when asked to comment about Reiner’s tragic death. Instead of empathy, compassion, condolences, or simple common decency, Trump called […]
To Evangelicals
By C J Waldron I’ve read the Bible from cover to cover which is why I’m an atheist. If you think Trump’s a great man, you are not following scripture. He is a con man, an adulterer, a liar, a thief and with the blowing up of boats in the Caribbean, you can add murderer […]
STATE OF THE COUNTRY: Shame on Trump; Shame on Us
by Mark M. Bello Many friends and colleagues I speak with feel the country is doing “fine,” that who’s president doesn’t really matter. But America is not fine, or stable, or immune to collapse. We have spent years pretending our institutions will save us, that the Constitution is self-enforcing, and no single leader could break […]