Tag archives for USA
The Braver and Braver New World
I can't keep up with everything that happened lately because I busied myself with something else than witnessing the approaching apocalypse. But I still heard of a few relevant things.…
The American Dream: being one crisis away from poverty
I recently discovered (so to speak) CGTN Radio, formerly known as China Radio International. Of course, I knew the CGTN mobile app, but I thought it's only TV and news…
Which one comes first, Greenland or Iran?
I bet on Greenland, even if “informed people” swear that the US will attack Iran within the next 12 hours (in the night or early morning of Jan. 15 local…
I don’t believe in Iran’s future
I was born to be skeptical, and I believe that some countries and nations are meant to be fucked up forever. Therefore, regardless of a possible and hoped-for change of…
We shouldn’t have forgotten Guantánamo
The BBC posted this, 20 hours ago: Guantánamo detainee paid 'substantial' compensation by UK to settle torture complicity case. Even if the case reached a financial settlement, he is “unable…
Happy Trump’s Kampf
I don’t read the NYT regularly, mostly visiting it via links from newsletters, but yesterday morning I’ve been informed of his interview with the NYT. Here's what you might be…
The Western Hemisphere includes all the oil tankers in the world
The seizure of the oil tanker formerly known as the Bella 1, and now called Marinera, after Russia granted it the right to display the flag of the Russian Federation,…
Operation ‘Emperor of the World’
The shit-orange infused Monroe Doctrine, dubbed “Donroe Doctrine,” was not invented in the last couple of days. The term that appeared on a January 2025 cover of The New York…
A premonition that aged very well: this is not about drugs!
On Dec. 11, Sky's data and economics editor Ed Conway explained The real reason Venezuela matters. “And there's one big reason why America is so interested.” It was almost a…
Beware of what you do: you can be tried in the US even if you never set foot there!
This is my third post related to the crisis in Venezuela, and the shortest one on that matter. As usual, I defend the principles of justice and freedom, not some…
Plans for US Imperialism 2.0 predate Trump 2.0
I stumbled upon a video excerpt on X, and I wondered whether it's authentic or AI-generated. I googled “Laura J. Richardson lithium triangle” and Google's AI Overview spitted this: General…
Grok: Kidnapping by a state is lawful everywhere
Here’s the talk I just had with Grok: Me: In the US, like in most countries, courts consider the legality of the evidence submitted, and if such evidence was warrantless…
România, Europa și lumea în 3 scurtissime idei
❶ Neparticipare, blocaj, sabotaj din partea a patru judecători ai CCR pe care nu-i spânzură nimeni, căci nu permite legea. V-am spus eu că onor CCR trebuie desființată, Constituția reformată,…
Cenzura, o extremă urgență în România (ca să parafrazez)
În loc ca cenzura să fie interzisă în UE, aceasta este de fapt încurajată. Vezi de pildă Directiva (UE) 2019/790 a Parlamentului European și a Consiliului din 17 aprilie 2019…
Mark Rutte just made a huge mistake
From the December 11, 2025, Keynote speech by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and moderated discussion with Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany Johann Wadephul in Berlin: And how is…
Trump’s Gaza success eclipses his China chaos
After having pampered Genocidal Bibi and praised the IDF in the Knesset, Trump went to the 2025 Gaza peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh. But what I found concerning is his…
Dan Wang & Zhang Weiwei on China
In this comment, I quoted from Dan Wang’s piece in The Atlantic, A Nation of Lawyers Confronts China’s Engineering State. There is more from this guy, and not only from…
How is Putin really seen by Xi? Notes on the 2025 SCO summit
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in a nutshell Founded in 2001, when Putin didn't seem such an ogre, with two official languages—Chinese and Russian—the SCO included as members, alongside China…
The Great AI Leap Forward: To panic or not to panic?
I’m not sure that I should be doing this, but I collected some recent news on AI, on which I’d like to add some minimal comments. I’ll start with quick…
Understanding Israel, Trump, and the “negotiations with Iran”
The 1968 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, or Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), defines and designates as nuclear-weapon states those that have built and tested a nuclear explosive device…