The American System

January 28, 2019 WCR

U.S. Strikes China’s Technology Theft and Money Laundering Machine Built Around Huawei, Presses Extradition of Oligarch Meng!
Trump Severely Damaged by Government Shutdown Debacle; GOP Primary Challenge to Discredited Cave Man Expected; Regime Seeks Wag the Dog in Venezuela; Corporate Press and Media Want to Smother Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax, the Most Radical Policy Idea in 2020 Campaign; British Parliament Votes Tuesday on Brexit: Delay on Article Fifty And Second Referendum Must Pass to Prevent May’s Catastrophic No-Deal Brexit With Massive Exodus of High-Tech Manufacturing; House Dems Should Quickly Impeach Whitaker Over Public Comments on Mueller Grand Jury; No More Billionaires: Howard Schultz Needs to Butt Out of 2020 Race!

January 19, 2019 WCR

Finally   Responding to Rocket-Rattling By Putin, Xi, and Kim, Pentagon Missile Defense Review Recommends Biggest Effort Since 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative-
U.S. Will Build Space-Based Sensors and ABM Weapons, High-Powered Lasers Carried by Drones, Interceptors Carried by F-35s, 20 New Ground-Based Interceptor Missiles and East Coast Base For Mid-Course Defense Against North Korean ICBMs; Orbital Lasers Are Still The Key; Christie Memoir Offers Chilling Portrait of Regime’s “Amateurs, Grifters, Weaklings, Convicted and Unconvicted Felons”; UK Premier May Refuses to Rule Out Catastrophic No-Deal Brexit, Voiding Chancellor of Exchequer’s Promise to British Business to Avoid Most Chaotic Scenario; Meet The Brexiteer “Populists”: Top City of London Hedge Fund Boss Threatens “Revolution” If Britain Does Not Leave EU

January 12, 2019 WCR

GOP Party of Chaos and Ungovernability Courts Extinction With Longest Government Shutdown in U.S. History; Fate of Federalists, Whigs, and Knownothings Beckons!
Trump Still Dithers on Brink of Launching Emergency Dictatorship to Impose Fascist Wall, Showing There Is No Emergency; Press Reveals: In May 2017, FBI Started Counter-Intelligence Investigation of Trump As Russian Asset Working Against U.S.; UK’s Theresa May Faces Parliamentary Defeat of Hated Brexit Austerity Plan Next Week; Her Options for Chicanery Dwindle; Feckless Corbyn Still Not Demanding End to Brexit; Pompeo and Bolton Can’t Fix Shambles of U.S. Middle East Policy; Cipollone Set To Assert Nixon-Style Executive Privilege

January 5, 2019

Trump Announces Coup Plan: Declare Phony State of Emergency, Rule By Decree, and Commandeer Army Under Pretext of Building Wall -- But It Won’t Stop There: This Is The Road to Suspension of Habeas and Dictatorship!
An Epiphany for Pelosi: With Nuclear Launch Codes Still Controlled by Deranged Individual 1, Democrats Must Pursue Impeachment To Prevent Imminent Harm; Threat of Multi-Year Government Shutdown Shows White House Contempt For Public Interest; How Long Before Megadonors and Ratings-Challenged Fox News Dump Toxic Don?; Syria and Afghanistan Are Expendable, South Korea Too; Another Bellicose Tirade From Warmonger Xi Raises Sellout of Taiwan As Part of Trade Swindle; Russia Taking Hostages in Wake of Butina Guilty Plea; Contraction of World Economy Confirmed

December 22, 2018 WCR

Support $30 Billion Marshall Plan For Central America Proposed by Mexican President Lopez Obrador; Force the Fed to Provide 0% Long-Term Credit!
U.S. Government Closed Until At Least Dec. 27 to Extort $5 Billion To Redeem Psychotic Campaign Promise of Wall; Quisling in White House Wrecking U.S. Strategic Position as Totalitarians Rejoice; Turkey’s Erdogan Ordered U.S. Out of Syria; Alt-Left Mush-Heads Don’t Care About Planned Massacre of Pro-Western Kurds, Can’t Grasp That Post-2001 Phony War on Terror Is Gone, Replaced By Deadly Great Power Rivalry; Dow Ends Worst Week Since 2008 Crash; Trump Passes Buck For Collapsing Stock Bubble, Prepares to Fire Fed Boss Powell; Democrats Must Impeach Whitaker When 116th Congress Convenes On January 3; Christmas Greetings To Our Listeners Around the World!

December 15, 2018 WCR

Trump Isolated, Encircled by Probes of His Business, Campaign, Transition, Inauguration, White House, Foundation, and Russia Links
Texas GOP Federal Judge Strikes Down Obamacare, Setting Up Epic Clash Over Genocide That Will Defeat Trump in 2020; No Return to Pre-Obamacare Carnage, When 2009 Harvard Study Found 45,000 Dead Americans Each Year From Lack of Health Care!; Wisconsin and Michigan GOP Strip Powers of Governors, Ram Through Killer Cuts; North Carolina Probe of GOP Vote Fraud Probe Deepens; British Conservatives and U.S. Republicans Rushing Towards Extinction As Tide of Fascist Populism Recedes; May Weakened by Failed Brexit Putsch and Party Split; Trump Revealed as Third Man in Cohen-Pecker Plot

December 8, 2018 WCR

As Collapse of His Signature Stock Bubble Accelerates, A Deeply Shaken “Tariff Man” Stays Glued to TV
For First Time, Manhattan Feds Cite “Individual 1” in White House For Felony Election Law Violations With Cohen; Mueller Says Manafort Lied About Dealings With Russian Asset Kilimnik; Beijing Totalitarians Threaten Canada Over Meng Bank Fraud Arrest; For AG, Trump Picks Bush 41 Retread Barr, Mueller Critic and Prison-Building Backer of Mass Incarceration Who Helped Save His Master From Iran-Contra Special Prosecutor Lawrence Walsh Using Pardons to Obstruct Justice; U.S. Responds to Russian Challenge to Freedom of Navigation in Black Sea and Sea of Japan; La Scala of Milan Opens With Verdi’s Attila, A Reminder That If The Choice Is Between Empire and Huns, It’s Better to Reform the Empire

December 1, 2018 WCR

After Latest Cohen Revelations, Disintegration of Trump Regime Accelerates; “Individual 1” Unlikely To Complete Four-Year Term in Conflict With Democratic House and Special Counsel;
Cohen and Sater Reportedly Colluded On Moscow Tower With Dmitri Peskov, Putin’s Right Hand Man; Beware Secret Sellouts at G-20; Sherrod Brown Shows GM Plant Closings Stem From 50% Tax Cut on Foreign Profits Built Into GOP Tax Scam; If Sir Neville Chamberlain Had Faced a Special Counsel, 1938 Munich Appeasement Tragedy Might Have Been Avoided; GOP Lockstep Fails to Install Farr as Federal Judge; Senate Defies Trump on Yemen; December 7 May Bring Trump’s New Pearl Harbor In Form of Government Shutdown

November 24, 2018 WCR

Schmidt-Haberman Exposé and Trump’s Attacks on Roberts Signal Early Breakup of Regime, Just As 1954 Army-McCarthy Hearings Were Prelude to Collapse of McCarthyism;
Trump Decisively Weakened by 39-Seat Democratic Gain and GOP Disaster at Polls, Plus Gathering Collapse of Stock Mania and $9 Trillion Corporate Debt Bubble; Watergate Ouster of Nixon Prepared by His Destruction of World Monetary System on August 15, 1971, Followed by World Oil Crisis of Autumn 1973, Complete With Gas Lines; In Biggest UK Crisis Since 1945, Premier May Desperately Seeking Brexit Deal From 27 Nations at Sunday’s EU Brussels Summit; No Brexit Is Only Viable Option!

November 17, 2018 WCR

With Trump-GOP Defeat, Crisis of May’s Brexit Austerity Regime, and Growing Demand For Regulating Facebook, Handwriting Is On The Wall for Pseudo-Populist Demagogues!
British Government Hangs By A Thread as Tories Split Into Warring Camps; Clamor For Second Referendum and Brexit Rollback Grows; Democratic Gains in U.S. House Now 37 Seats And Counting; Loser Trump Retreats Into Cocoon of Bluster and Self-Pity; Facebook Reportedly Knew of Russian Attack on 2016 Election But Refused Countermeasures; Main Focus Was Discrediting Critics; Congress Must Defend Privacy and End Monopoly; Stocks Still Massively Overvalued; Trump Equities Bubble Will Intersect Bond Glut

November 10, 2018 WCR

Biggest Democratic Success Since 1974 Watergate Rout of GOP! Gain of 40 Seats Possible!
Sinema Leads in AZ, GOP Leads Shrink in FL as Recounts Are Ordered; Abrams Fighting for GA Runoff; Trump Hysterical As Size of GOP Defeat Become Clearer; Right Turn by Corporate Media Distorts Outcome; “AG” Whitaker Caught In FBI Probe of Firm Fined $25 Million for Ripoffs; Impeach Him!; With House Controlled By Democrats, Path to Impeachments Lies Open; But With Democratic Governors in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin, Trump’s 2020 Path Is Blocked; In 1918, Pershing Stopped MacArthur From Seizing Metz, Ending War Two Months Early; Sobbing Von Hindenburg Confessed to George Seldes That American Infantry Had “Won The War in Battle in the Meuse-Argonne,” Contradicting Later Nazi Fable of Stab In Back

November 3, 2018 WCR

Tuesday Vote Will Decide Between Permanent Austerity Dictatorship Under Trump GOP Plutocrats and Constitutional Government!
Vote to Show World That Tin-Pot Trump Is Profoundly Anti-American, a Freakish Temporary Aberration of U.S. Politics; This Country Must Lead the World in Rolling Back The Totalitarian Wave, Reclaiming America’s Status as Most Anti-Fascist Nation on Earth; Birth-Right Citizenship is an Economic Necessity Anchored in Fourteenth Amendment, But Will Reactionary Kavanaugh Court Rubber Stamp Boss Tweet’s Decrees?; Violence and Threats Against Refugee Women and Children Are Illegal and Dishonorable; Stocks Continue Mudslide After Apple Report

October 27, 2018 WCR

Trump Hooverized By Ongoing Stock Market Implosion
Ominous S&P Double Top Emerges; S&P Now In Correction Territory at 2659; A Dive Below 2580 Would Unleash “The Sum of All Fears”; FBI’s Bombing Suspect Cesar Sayoc Is Disturbed Pro-Trump Fanatic; His Van a MAGA Shrine Plastered With Scurrilous GOP Propaganda; Cop: “His Motive Was On His Van”; FBI Quickly Covered Paranoid Display Embarrassing to White House; GOP Line of Killer Cuts to Health Care, Lies, Hysteria, and Vote Suppression Shows Need To End One-Party Rule; Congressional Democrats Lead By 10% On Eve Of Landmark Vote; Beware GOP “Drive For Five” To Use Republican Lite Hogan to Make Maryland the New Kansas Disaster

October 20, 2018

Facing Defeat, Desperate GOP Demagogues Spout Blatant Lies to Mask Genocidal Attack on Health Care
Trump Incites Mobs But Falls Short on Jobs; McDonnell Flaunts Plans For Killer Cuts; Gov. Scott Walker’s Maudlin Pledge He Will Not Re-Establish Pre-Existing Conditions; Decline of Auto, Construction, and Farming In Midwest Sets Up GOP Disaster in Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, Epicenters of Trump’s 2016 Win; Retail Apocalypse Hitting Sears, K-Mart, and Toys R Us Is Result of Asset Stripping By Hedge Fund Hyenas, Darlings of Current Regime; May Government Reeling as British Voters Mobilize To Fight Brexit

October 13, 2018 WCR

Trump Stock Bubble Deflating At Worst Possible Time for GOP Demagogues
Giant Sucking Sound: Fed’s Ill-Advised Quantitative Tightening Now Removing $50 Billion Per Month From Pool of Speculative Hot Money, While European Central Bank Stops Easing; Friday Dow Struggled to Attain Dead-Cat Bounce With Help of Plunge Protection Team; Slowdown In Key Sectors Like Auto and Construction Shows That Republican Economy Has Feet Of Clay; Zandi of Moody’s Sees Boom Turning Into Bust; Coming Week Beset By Likely Sears Bankruptcy, Italian Debt Crisis, and Earnings Shortfalls; $2 Trillion Orgy of Treasury Borrowing Made Much Worse By GOP Tax Scam Will Drive Up Interest Rates on Bonds, Hit Stocks and Emerging Markets

October 6, 2018 WCR

Rogue Republican Senate Rams Through Kavanaugh Coup!
Supreme Court Majority Will Now Back Permanent Austerity Dictatorship Under Trump; Nov. 6 Vote Must Mark Beginning of GOP Extinction: Sen. Collins Delusional, Should Be Ousted; Democratic Determination Grows; GOP Kakistocracy Demolishing Presidency, Congress, Supreme Court; Only Criminal Defendants Should Get Presumption of Innocence, Not Judges Greedy For Promotion; Antidotes To Kavanaugh Include Judicial Impeachment, Adding More Justices, and Taking Control of Congress; How FDR Defeated Four Horsemen In 1937; IMF Estimates World Debt at $182 Trillion, Up 60% Since 2008-9; Ex-UK PM Gordon Brown Sees Leaderless World Sleepwalking Into Crisis; Pence’s Speech on Chinese Threat

September 29, 2018

Mass Mobilization Momentarily Blocks Fascist Takeover of Supreme Court; FBI To Probe Charges Against Kavanaugh; Trump’s Senate Majority Crumbles Under Popular Revulsion; Flake Shamed Into Breaking GOP Phalanx By Two Brave Rape Victims in Elevator; American Bar Association, Yale Law, Jesuits Spurn Kavanaugh After Thursday’s Primal Scream of Rage and Self-Pity From Dipso Judge; Reactionaries Fear Dress Rehearsal For Impeachment; FBI Probe Must Include Blasey Ford, Ramirez, Swetnick and All Others Coming Forward; Results Must Be Public; Beware Pro-Trump New York Field Office and Giuliani Networks; No Deadlines; Eighty Years After Munich Appeasement of September 29, 1938, Trump Sells Out To Russia, China, and North Korea; From Lady Astor’s Cliveden Set to Trump White House

September 22, 2018 WCR

American People Demand To Hear Prof. Ford!
Majority Opposes Granting Vast Lifetime Powers to Totalitarian Ideologue Kavanaugh, Cementing Reactionary Pro-Trump Majority on High Court; In 2011 ACA Dissent, Kavanaugh Argued President Can “Deem” Laws Unconstitutional and Disregard Them Even If Supreme Court Approves Them; This Would Destroy Judicial Review And Rule of Law; Confirming Kavanaugh Comparable To German Enabling Act (Ermächtigungsgesetz) of March 23, 1933 Passed 444-94 To Give Hitler Absolute Powers A Month After The Reichstag Fire; and French Constitutional Law of July 10, 1940, Voted in Vichy Opera House 569-80 To End Third Republic And Grant Absolute Powers to Marshall Pétain In Wake of Military Collapse; No Statute of Limitations For Felony Sexual Assault in Maryland; Another Dirty Op By New York Times Against Rosenstein

September 15, 2018 WCR

Scoundrel Time for Supremes!
New Accusations Against Kavanaugh Add Moral Turpitude To Perjury and Gambling Charges; No Confirmation for Lyin’ Brett!; Manafort Plea Deal With Mueller and Weissman Is Existential Threat to Trump-Russia Cabal: Campaign Boss Must Tell All, Forfeit Five New York Properties, Including Trump Tower Pied-à-Terre; Boss Tweet Reduced To Stunned Silence; Calls For His Resignation Multiply; Like Agnew, Pence Also In Danger: Manafort Sponsored Him For Veep Nod; Cynical Nihilism of Kremlin in Case of Two GRU Salisbury Killers

September 8, 2018 WCR

Tell Collins, Murkowski, and Scott to Stop Kavanaugh, Block Shift of Supremes Toward Permanent Austerity Dictatorship; Kavanaugh No Conservative, But Radical Reactionary on Roe, Obamacare, Unitary Executive, Discrimination, Unions; He Won’t Recuse, Won’t Come Clean, So Reject Him!; Constitutional Crisis Caused by Ongoing Extinction of Republican Party Cripples All Three Branches; Times Op-Ed As Re-Run of 1971 Pentagon Papers and Jack Anderson “Tilt” Leaks: Designed to Goad Trump Deeper Into Paranoia and Self-Destruction?; Relevance of Radford-Welander Scandal as Prelude to Watergate; Why GOP Can’t Say Nazis Are Bad

September 1, 2018 WCR

It’s September: Time to Defeat Kavanaugh!
Trump Blocks Token Increase in Federal Pay, Dooming GOP Reps. Barbara Comstock (VA 10, NOVA) and Scott Taylor (VA 2, Norfolk-Newport News) To Defeat; Boss Tweet Talks Violence With His Support at 38% Against 60% Opposed in ABC-Washington Post Poll; 63% Back Mueller; Democrats Hold 8% Generic Ballot Advantage for Congress; 49% Want Impeachment; Baldwin, Casey, Manchin Lead; O’Rourke Tied With Cruz; Russia Holds War Games From Eastern Siberia to Mediterranean, But Trump Dithers About Re-Starting U.S.-South Korean Defense Drills: Steele Told Ohr Russia Has Trump Over a Barrel; Attacks on Brennan, Strzok, Page, Halper, and Ohr Cripple U.S. Intelligence vs. Russian Oligarchs and Mafiya

August 25, 2018 WCR

Trump Now Unindicted Co-Conspirator in His Own Plot to Steal 2016 Election; Nixon Had Just Two Months Left in Office When Public Learned in June 1974 He Had Been Implicated By Watergate Grand Jury, Which Wanted To Indict Him; Trump Under Attack on Eight Federal and New York State Legal Fronts, With More to Come; Reject Kavanaugh As Don’s Mouthpiece; Rand Paul Says Russia Will Never Confess Fixing U.S. Election; Not Quite: Moscow Took 50 Years to Plead Guilty to Hitler-Stalin Pact, Signed 79 Years Ago This Week; Trump As Comprador for Russia; Deep Sixing of Howard Hunt’s Safe By Nixon’s FBI Director as Classic Watergate Meme; Theory of Punctum Saliens in History Applied to Tuesday, August 21, 2018: Beginning of the End For Regime

August 18, 2018 WCR

Trump Strips Brennan Security Clearance: Will Rosenstein, Mueller, and Weissberg Be Next?; More Revulsion Across U.S. Society Against Would-Be Dictator: Pentagon Rejects Military Parade; Four Hundred Newspapers Counter Attempts to Muzzle Press; Fifteen CIA Chiefs and Scores of Officials Back Brennan; Admiral McRaven Voices Discontent of Military; Omarosa Does Yeoman Service; McConnell Prepares To Pack High Court With Kavanaugh, Eager to Rubber-Stamp Tyrant; GOP Now Has Just One Chance in Four of Holding House; Irrationalism Kills: Italy’s Ruling Pseudo-Populist Bunglers Knew Of Genoa Bridge Weakness In 2012 But Mocked It as “Fairy Tale”; Death Toll At 42

August 11, 2018 WCR

Pro-Trump GOP Plotting Coup to Install Kavanaugh, Then Oust Rosenstein and Mueller to Impose Trump as Permanent Austerity Dictator Under Russian-Chinese Control; Kavanaugh Lied to Senate About His Role in Bush-Era Torture; Trump Doubles Tariffs on Turkey: Is He Playing Moscow’s Game To Wreck NATO’s Southern Flank?; Boss Tweet In Receivership On Mattis 4 x 30 Program and Russia Sanctions; Judge Ellis Erratic and Undisciplined in Manafort Trial; Charleston “Blood and Soil” Chants Proved “Alt-Right” Is Fascist; Was Russia Involved?; Securities Fraudster Rep. Collins Halts Campaign; Time to Support Democrat Nate McMurray, Popular Town Supervisor of Grand Island in Niagara River

August 4, 2018 WCR

Last Days of Pompeii on Wall Street as Apple Hits Absurd $1 Trillion Market Cap and P/E Ratio of S+P Is Dizzy 31.2!
Emerging Sino-Russian Pincer Attack on U.S. Opens New Front in Trade War: Moscow Dumps $90 Billion in Treasury Bonds in April-May and Buys Gold, Driving 10-Year Rates to 7-Year High and Setting Up Short Squeeze on Hedge Funds; Chinese Signal Selloff of U.S. Properties, Threatening Commercial Real Estate Bubble; Trump Stock Euphoria Doomed As $900 Billion in Hot Money Evaporates Due to Higher Fed Funds and Quantitative Tightening, End of ECB Easing, and UK Bank Rate Hike; Recalling Henry Paulson’s 2010 Report That Putin Urged Beijing to Dump Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and Other U.S. Agency Bonds Ten Years Ago This Week; Beware Sneak Attack Using $1.2 Trillion in Treasuries Held by Beijing!

July 28, 2018 WCR

House Progressive Caucus People’s Budget Features Wall Street Sales Tax; Does Anyone Believe Cooked GDP Figures Supervised by Trump?; Facebook, Twitter, Intel Tremors Point to Hot Autumn for Stocks; Nielsen and Azar Flout Judge’s Order to Re-Unite Refugee Families; Cohen May Provide Prima Facie Case For Trump Collusion With Russia Through June 2016 Veselnitskaya Meeting; Start of Manafort Trial, Emoluments Suit Discovery, Butina Cabal, and Weisselberg Subpoena Top Growing List of Legal Threats to Regime; No More Questions: Embattled Don Cowers in Nixon’s Bunker; Trump Collapsing in Upper Midwest 100 Days Before Critical Vote

July 21, 2018 WCR

Not Welcome!
Mobilize to Stop National Humiliation of Putin Affront; Extent of Helsinki Betrayal Still Unclear as GOP Subversives Block Testimony of Translator; Has Mueller Stopped Demanding Interview Because Trump is Now Target?; Russian State Prosecutor Yuri Chaika, Who Promised Don Dirt on Hillary in June 2016, Targets McFaul; Ornstein Scenario: Trump Is Indicted, Fires Mueller, Pardons Himself and His Cabal; After Calling His Fanatics Into The Streets To Provoke Violence, He Declares Martial Law; Trump’s Racist Judge Pick Blocked in Senate, Raising Hopes For Stopping Kavanaugh; Boss Tweet Threatens to Tax $500b of Chinese Imports Even As U.S. Farm Depression Grows

July 14, 2018 WCR

#CancelHelsinki! Trump’s Appeasement Confab With Putin Must Be Called Off; Clamor to Block Sellout Grows in Congress After Mueller Grand Jury Indicts Twelve Russian Military Intelligence (GRU) Officers Who Hacked DNC, DCCC, Podesta, Hillary Campaign, and State Boards in the Service of Trump; No Sanctions Relief and No Normalization Until These Criminals and Their Boss Gerasimov Are Brought to Justice; Complicit Trump Backers in U.S. Now Face Indictment; GOP Party of Treason Readies Attacks on Rosenstein and Special Counsel; Appeasement Intellectuals Must Choose Among Russian Oligarchy, Chinese Totalitarianism, and U.S.; 250,000 Protest The Tyrant in London; Comparable Summit: Khrushchev Stormed Out of 1960 Paris Conference After U-2 Spy Plane Crashed in USSR; Full Reciprocity Now In Order; Vive la France!

July 7, 2018 WCR

Putin-Trump Appeasement Summit Must Not Occur!
Pentagon Eyes Particle Beams for Anti-Missile Defense; Coney Barrett and Kavanaugh Unfit; UK May Regime Narrowly Escapes Collapse Using Fake Brexit Compromise Sure To Be Rejected by Brussels; Rolls Royce, Jaguar Land Rover, Airbus and BMW’s Mini Cooper Threaten To Leave Britain; Labour Party Shadow Cabinet Opens Door To Second Referendum; The Cunning of History: Trump Poised For Long-Overdue U.S. Clash With China, But Alone and Without Allies, Thus Courting His Own Demise; In Post-Trump Era, U.S. Must Re-Create Alliances Based on Hamiltonian Credit and Industrial Strategy

June 30, 2018 WCR

Why Did Justice Kennedy Resign on Trump’s Timetable?; Son Justin Kennedy Directed Over $1 Billion in Loans to Trump As Boss of Deutsche Bank’s Real Estate Capital Markets Unit in 1998-2010, Becoming Bankrupt Hotelier’s “Most Important Lender” According to New York Times; Justin’s LNR Property Reportedly Helped Bail Out Kushner’s 666 Fifth Avenue; Other Son Gregory Kennedy Was Trump Appointee and Member of 2017 “Beachhead Team” of MAGA Wreckers at NASA; Resistance Can Defeat Trump Supreme Court Pick Just As Toxic Ideologue Bork Was Stopped in 1987; Finlandized Trump Programmed to Play Useful Idiot For Putin at July 16 Helsinki Appeasement Summit; Stop Sabotage of Atlantic Alliance!

June 23, 2018 WCR

Speaker Ryan’s Austerity Ghouls Launch New Attack on Medicare and Medicaid to Pay For Their Obscene Tax Scam; Fifty-One Million U.S. Households Can’t Cover Basic Needs on Trump’s Watch; 35 Million Families Classed As Asset Limited and Income Constrained, Even If Employed in GOP’s Low-Wage Jobs; Republican Retail Apocalypse On Track For New Record 0f 9,000 Store Closures in 2018, Eclipsing 6,700 in Don’s First Year; Resistance Must Get Woke to 21.5% Unemployment, 10% Inflation, and Negative GDP Growth; European Central Bank Quantitative Easing To Taper Off, Further Strangling Liquidity As Fed Tightening Marches On; Needed: Zero Tolerance for Fascism!

June 16, 2018 WCR

Justice Department IG Report Silent On Summer 2016 Mutiny By Giuliani-Linked “Trumpland” FBI Networks Which “Leaked Like a Sieve,” Demanding Meddling In Election; Trump’s Top Convention Strategist and Campaign Manager Manafort Jailed For Alleged Witness Tampering; Personal Lawyer Cohen About to Flip, Reports Say; Seoul Won’t Stop Self-Defense Drills Until North Denuclearizes; The 1973 Case of Nixon’s Vice President Spiro Agnew, Who Went From First News of Tax Evasion and Bribery Charges to Indictment and Resignation By Plea Bargain In Six Months, Despite Claims He Was Immune to Indictment; See “The Deep State” From Our New York Left Forum Panels at americansystem.tv!

June 9, 2018 WCR

At “G-6 + 1” Summit in Canada, Trump Sabotages Alliance System It Took Two World Wars To Construct; Kremlin Pawn Wants to Re-Admit Putin With No Preconditions; Appeasement Of Kim Sets Up 1938 Munich Sellout Redux; The Savage Servility of Scott Pruitt Slides By On Grease, Thanks To His Favorite Moisturizing Lotion; New Regime Attacks on Obamacare Remind Voters That GOP Will Strip Their Healthcare, Re-Inflaming Number One Issue for November; NBC-WSJ Poll Puts Democrats Ahead By Ten Points in House Races; Vice President Aaron Burr as Case Study of Treason by Federal Officials; Join The americansystem.tv To See Our Panels From New York Left Forum

June 2, 2018 WCR

Deep State Networks Mobilized in 2015-2016 To Assist Trump’s Seizure of Power, Not Oppose Him; “New York Times” Leaked Hillary Email Probe, Denied Collusion on Eve of Vote; Comey Exploited Pro-Trump FBI Revolt Centered in Giuliani’s New York City Field Office Using Oct. 28 Letter to Quell Mutiny; Trump-Russia Probe Kept Hidden; McCabe Allegedly Leaked News of FBI Probe of Clinton Foundation, Slow-Walked Abedin-Wiener Emails For Three Weeks in October 2016; Obama Administration Ignored Many Warnings and Attacks; Susan Rice Blocked Wallander-Daniel NSC Plan For U.S. Cyberdefense; Mitch McConnell Sabotaged Bipartisan Statement On Russian Meddling

May 26, 2018 WCR

Kim and Xi Con Trump Into Calling Off Summit, Shocking South Korea and Japan
Reports Say Warmonger Bolton Goaded Trump to Beat Kim to the Draw By Canceling Talks; Appeasement Summit May Still Occur; Pompeo’s Twelve Demands Would Make Iran a Foreign Protectorate; Rev. Michael Curry and William Barber of Poor People’s Campaign Condemn Idolatry of “America First,” Assert Apostolic Christianity Against Pro-Trump Heretics; More on Trump as Possible Brainchild of Ruling Class Insider Clique Around Samuel Huntington; Attend Tax Wall Street Party Panels at New York Left Forum, Saturday June 2, 2pm to 6pm

May 19, 2018 WCR

“With Friends Like This You Don’t Need Enemies,” Says Europe’s President of Trump!
Atlantic Alliance Splintering Due to Iran Deal Sabotage, Jerusalem Meddling, and Tariff Fiasco: Impeachment Looms as National Security Imperative; Tribe Theory of Impeachment Neglects War Avoidance; Sen. Blumenthal Shows Incumbent President Can Be Indicted; U.S. Counter-Intelligence For Once Serves Proper Purpose By Watching Pro-Trump Adventurers; America Firster Bannon Said To Use Foreigners at Russian-Linked Cambridge Analytica to Foment “Cultural Warfare,” Suppress Black Vote; GOP Austerity and Nihilism Spur Baby Bust: Fertility Rate Falls Sharply to 1.76 Children Per Woman on Trump’s Watch, Lowest in Recorded History and Far Below Replacement Rate of 2.1; Immigration Is Economically Necessary For Human Capital!

May 12, 2018 WCR

Trump’s Denunciation of Iran Pact Is Worst U.S. Foreign Policy Catastrophe Since 2003 Iraq War; Betting the Ranch on June 12 Singapore Summit With Kim Compounds The Folly; Behind Pence’s Attack on Mueller Probe: What Is Veep Hiding About Himself?; Trump’s 30-Minute Red-Faced Rage Fit In Cabinet Meeting Targets Nielsen, Makes Other Secretaries Fidget and Squirm; But Are Any Ready to Invoke XXV Amendment Before It’s Too Late?; History Shows Apoplectic Leaders Who Reject Reality Imperil Their Nations; Recalling Nixon’s Bagman Bebe Rebozo as Mirror for Modern Fixers

May 5, 2018 WCR

Trump Splitting Western Alliance With Sabotage of Iran Nuclear Accord and Trade War Against Europe; Is This What Veselnitskaya Wanted?; Trump Camp Boasts of Peace in Our Time With North Korea; Giuliani’s Blather Shocks White House; Signs Rupert Murdoch Is Tired Of Boss Tweet; Catholic League Demands Firing of Ryan’s Chief of Staff as Father Conroy Returns as House Chaplain; GOP Austerity Ghouls Routed as Arizona Teachers Win 20% Raise; Trade Unionists Realizing “Trump is For the Rich”; Republicans Strangling Postal Service in Rural America; Homeland, Designated Survivor, and The Good Fight Depict Hybrid Warfare, Active Measures, and Steele Dossier

April 28, 2018 WCR

A Mini-Munich Sellout in South Korea?
“Troubling” Fox and Friends Episode Increases Mental Health Concerns; Merkel Backs Iran Nuclear Accord, But Macron Predicts White House Will Sabotage Deal, Raising Middle East War Danger; The New Cabinet of Dr. Caligari; Tax Wall Street Party Supports Privatization Foe and Reformer Robert McDonald To Return For Another Term At Veterans’ Affairs; Rolando of Letter Carriers’ Union Calls for Repeal of Hastert Poison Pill That Threatens Postal Service; Homeland Series Evokes XXV Amendment, 1993 Moscow Street Battles, and GOP Useful Idiots

April 21, 2018 WCR

Kim Dangles Recycled Bait for Useful Idiot in White House!
North Korea Already Halted Nuclear Tests Last November; Closing Nuclear Site That Was Collapsing Anyway; Pompeo Claims Diplomatic Success Despite No Summit Date, No Venue, No Agreed Agenda, and None of Kim’s American Hostages Freed; Dictators Seek to Oust U.S. From Far East, Middle East; Citing Sabotage of 2016 Presidential Election and Federal Civil RICO Statute, Democratic National Committee Sues Russian Government, GRU, Trump Campaign, Don Jr., Wikileaks, Assange, Gufficer 2.0, Agalarovs, Manafort, Papadopoulos, and Kushner; But Who Is Kingpin?; Comey Ordered Probe of FBI Leakers Behind 2016 October Surprise Hyped on Fox News By Giuliani; Cruz in Big Trouble in Texas!

April 14, 2018 WCR

Trump in Delirium, Raves “Mission Accomplished!”
U.S., Britain, France Strike Syria With 100 Cruise Missiles; Chemical Warfare Is Pretext; Moscow Threatens “Consequences,” Hints Russian-Made Pantsir Air Defense System Was Effective Against Cruise Missiles; At UN, Haley Threatens Endless Bombing; Bolton’s Demand For Massive Attack Rebuffed; Deputy AG Rosenstein Does Not Fear Trump, Reports Say; Michael Cohen’s Computer Recordings Seen As Watergate Tapes of Trump’s Impeachment: Did Don’s Fixer Visit Prague After All?; Ruling Kakistocracy Hit Hard by Comey Memoir, First Book by Insider; Alt-Left Mush-Heads In Crisis As Their Lesser Evil of 2016 Unmasks as Warmonger; When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed: Commemorating Abraham Lincoln, Greatest World Statesman of the Nineteenth Century, Died April 15, 1865

April 7, 2018 WCR

Nomenklatura Nicked!
On McMaster’s Last Day at White House, U.S. Freezes Assets, Bans Travel, and Sets Embargo For Seven Russian Oligarchs, Seventeen Bigwigs of Putin Regime, and Twelve Companies; Targets Include Manafort Crony Deripaska, Kremlin Son-In-Law Shamalov, Gold Czar Kerimov, and Gazprom’s Miller; Companies Now Radioactive, With EN+ Group Shares Down 21% in London; Move Viewed As End Run Around Trump and Parthian Shot by Outgoing NSC Director; The Cunning of Reason: Tariffs Start Conflicts With China, Wall Street, Farm State GOP, and WTO, Hastening Demise of Free Trade, Trump Regime and Republican Party

March 31, 2018 WCR

Easter 2018: Plutocratic Dictatorships in Moscow and Beijing Threaten World Peace; Putin Brandishes Satan II ICBM Against U.S.; Xi Dynasty Deploys 40-Ship Armada With Aircraft Carrier In Bid to End Freedom of Navigation In South China Sea; Trump The Slave of Appeasement; Class-Based Neo-Containment Starts By Turning Screws On Russian Mafiya Oligarchs and Chinese Princelings Who Launder Funds, Travel, Reside, and Study in West; U.S. Needs Sharp Anti-Oligarchical Left Turn, Starting in White House; No Privatization of Infrastructure or VA!

March 24, 2018 WCR

Trump’s Base Is Revolting!
Six-Month Budget Leaves Reactionary Republicans Apoplectic: No Border Wall and Big Deficit!; Strange Interlude of Friday Veto Threat Followed by Crackpot Demands for Line Item Veto and End of Filibuster; Mattis Told Him to Sign; Limbaugh Sees Trump Fleeing Back Up His Escalator as Immigration Agenda Is “Gutted” In “Nuclear Win For Swamp”; Coulter and Ingraham Expect Impeachment; Widespread Revulsion Against Neocon Warmonger Bolton; Bannon Implicated in Purloined Facebook Data; Cambridge Analytica Raided by British Police

March 17, 2018 WCR

Ides of March Bring Twin Trump Disasters!
Mueller Subpoenas Trump Organization Records As White House Is Forced to Join UK, France, and Germany in Condemning Russian Nerve Gas Attack in England; PA-18 Result Foreshadows GOP House Minority in November, With Acute Danger of Impeachment; Trump Seeks Defense Line Of 34 Hoodlum Senators Pledged To Stave Off Conviction and Removal; Post-Purge Cabinet and Staff Tasked With Shoring Up Extremist Base Using Policies of Greed, Hatred and Warmongering; Nihilism Rules Kremlin

March 10, 2018 WCR

Texas Democrats Demand Federal Reserve Resolve Student Loan Crisis and Provide Job Creation in Infrastructure Through Cheap, Long-Term Federal Credit; Trump-Kim-Moon Summit Becoming Less Likely; De-Nuclearization of North Korea Is Pure Utopia, But Fiasco Could Propel Irascible Don Towards Nuclear Confrontation; U.S. Must Have Orbital Lasers for ABM Defense!; British Gold Default of September 1931, Not Hawley-Smoot Tariff of 1930, Was Main Factor in Great Depression; Despite GOP Doublethink, Deep State Exists and Backed Trump; Proposed Tariffs Have Limited Impact Due To Insane Obsession With De-Regulation; Secretary of State Dean Acheson’s Bitter Warning After Summits With His Unstable Puppet Harry Truman: When The Head of State Fumbles, the Goal Line is Wide Open Behind Him

March 3, 2018 WCR

Putin Threatens U.S. With New Offensive Attack Weapons Including ICBM, Nuclear-Powered Cruise Missile, and Nuclear Torpedo; Reveals Kremlin’s Greatest Fear Is Effective U.S. Strategic Anti-Missile Defense; American Response Must Be Crash Program For Defensive Orbital Lasers As Basis For Successful War Avoidance; Appeaser Trump Is Silent; Alt-Left Ideologues Belittle Threats; Wray and Rogers Say Trump Has Done Nothing To Protect 2018 Election; Mattis, Kelly, and McMaster Should Recall Napoleon’s Maxim That Dissenting Generals Should Resign Rather Than Become Instruments Of The Downfall Of The Army; King Lear On The Heath As Model For Trump In DC Northeaster Ending Week Of Chaos

February 24, 2018 WCR

At CPAC Reactionary Confab, Gun Lobby Blames Mass Shootings on Police, FBI, School Security, and Even the American Family (!), While Declining Responsibility for Their Own Abuses; Strident Polemics Likely to Offend Suburban Security Moms; Trump Parrots NRA Demand For Armed Teachers and “Hardened Schools”; Milquetoast Democrats Assailed as “European-Style Socialists”; Era of Extreme Gun Fetishism Started With 2008 District of Columbia v. Heller Decision; Scalia Court Invented Largely Unregulated Individual Right to Firearms While Preventing Cities From Banning Handguns; Intelligent and Outspoken Activists of Generation Z Are Anything But New Silent Generation; Mass Strike Dynamic Re-Surfaces After Winter Pause; Task Now Is to Unite Blacks, Students, Women, Dreamers, Labor Unions, and Democratic Party Activists With Common Economic Demands Into Movement Capable of Contending for Power; Where Is National Resistance Coordinating Committee?

February 17, 2018 WCR

Mueller Indicts Thirteen Russians and Three Entities For Criminal Conspiracy Against U.S. 2016 Election; Goal Was Chaos, Supporting Trump, Disparaging Clinton; “Putin’s Chef” Seen as Kingpin; Rosenstein Announces Indictments; Stopping Probe Now Tantamount to Treason; White House Lies Refuted by Meticulous Account of Meddling; Focus On “Operation Lakhta” Troll Base in Olgino, North of St. Petersburg; Russia Should Stop Meddling, Apologize Formally, Dismantle Troll Farms, and Punish Those Responsible; Shift In Mass Psychology As Students Terrorized by Florida Shooter Get Angry and Demand Gun Safety From Corrupt GOP Hacks; Two GOP Wipeouts In Upcoming Elections Can Begin To End Mass Shootings; Gun Lobby Vital to GOP Financial Support and Anti-State Ideology; Bipartisanship Fails Dreamers as Immigration Bills Are Defeated in Senate; GOP Extinction Is Only Answer; Will Republicans Run Benedict Arnold for President in 2020?; Recalling Roman History: Horatius at The Bridge

February 10, 2018 WCR

Trump Hooverized By Protracted Collapse of Stock Bubble; GOP Deregulation and Tax Cut Demagogy Decimated By Stock Losses and Probable Overall Economic Downturn; Explosive Innovations In Derivatives and Leverage Have Made Matters Much Worse; Emergency Re-Regulation Needed, With 1% Wall Street Sales Tax On All Stock, Bond, and Derivative Transactions, Plus Ban on Double and Triple-Leveraged Inverse VIX ETNs; $400 Billion in New Money is Welcome; Dreamers Must Now Get Road to Citizenship; Ash Wednesday Came Early For Parasitical Subjectivists; Italy’s Anti-Immigrant and Russian-Backed “Five Star Movement” Wants To Take Power in March 4 Elections Despite Catastrophic Failures in Governing Rome and Turin; Americans Should Plan Impeachment Houseparties for Presidents’ Day, Saturday, February 17!

February 3, 2018 WCR

Much Ado About a Nothingburger: Slovenly Nunes Memo Shows That Papadopoulos’ Boasts to Australian Diplomat, Not Steele Dossier, Triggered FBI Probe of Trumpery; Goofy Carter Page Goes From Non-Person to Poster Boy; Zealot Ghostwriter Kashyap Patel Whines About Partisanship; With Informants, Accuracy of Facts Matters, Not Purity of Motives: FBI Runs on Paid Snitches; Time to Extend Umbrella of Political Protection from American Folk Hero Mueller to Include His Flank Guard Rosenstein; If Trump Fires Rosenstein or Mueller, Democrats Must Win Congress in November and Impeach in 2020; Market Break Drives Dow Down 666 Points To End Worst Stock Week in Two Years; Ten-Year Bond Rises, Flattening Treasury Yield Curve and Presaging Major Downturn; Trump’s Political Destiny Now Lashed to Carcass of Sinking Stock Market

January 27, 2018 WCR

Trump Economic Downturn May Have Started in Fourth Quarter of 2017; Despite Boasts of 3% and Up, U.S. GDP Growth Stagnated at 2.3% For 2017; December Job Growth a Meager 148,000, Weaker Than Obama A Year Earlier; Wage Growth Miniscule; Obama’s 2016 Job Creation Pace of 2.2 Million Beats Trump’s 2.1 Million in 2017; Growing GOP Extremism May Portend Another Government Shutdown After February 8, With Debt Ceiling and Default Crisis Likely Before End of March; Crash of Current U.S. Asset Bubble Will Doom Regime; Trump Davos Speech Thus Based On Pure Hype; Bonuses and Pay Hikes Triggered by GOP Tax Scam Are Wretched Pittance, With Lion’s Share Going to Stock Buy-Backs and Financial Swindles; News Of Attempted Firing of Mueller Last June Puts Obstruction of Justice at Center Stage

January 20, 2018 WCR

#TrumpShutdown: Federal Government Closes As Democrats Defy Trump, Refuse to Buckle For Diktat on Budget, Community Health, and DACA; Defections From Each Side Balance Out, Leaving McConnell Far Short of 60 Votes Needed; Bernie Sanders: Mitch Needed 60 Votes and Didn’t Have Them, So His Stubborn Refusal to Negotiate Meant Choosing Shutdown; Mueller’s Office Keeps Working; Time to Use Social Media to Make White House, Ryan, McConnell and GOP Hill Thugs Feel the Heat; Al Green Gets 66 Dems to Vote for Impeachment Hearings, Up From 58 in December; Fighting Congressman Pledges To Force Vote Again and Again; After One Full Year of One-Party Rule, GOP Nativists Repudiated as CBS Poll Shows 87% of Public Backs Dreamers; Immigration is Greatest U.S. Strategic Asset

January 13, 2018 WCR

Genius of Martin Luther King Rejected Divide and Conquer Tactics of Finance Oligarchs, Instead Promoting Unity of Civil Rights, Labor and Anti-Poverty, and Antiwar Movements To Prepare Robert Kennedy Presidency in 1968; MLK Is Powerful Corrective to Current Identity Politics Outlook; Trump’s Racist and Scatological Tirade Against Haiti, Salvador, and Africa Disgusts Nation and World; Embattled Regime Lurching From One Sick Tantrum to the Next; Media Who Failed to Warn Public in 2016 Must Drop Role of Gatekeepers; Mueller Time is Coming; A Recent Mirror: European History Shows That Economic Factors Are Decisive in Genesis of Fascism; Hawaii Events Prove Need for Laser-Based Anti-Missile Defense

January 6, 2018 WCR

Trump’s Incalculable Folly Displayed In “Bigger Button” Threats to North Korea, Plus Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury Book, Combine to Produce Landmark Shift in U.S. Public Opinion: Tenant of White House Now Widely Seen As Unable to Discharge the Powers and Duties of Office, With XXV Amendment Action Viewed as Remedy For Perilous Dotage; Bannon Said To Describe June 2016 Trump Tower Collusion Meeting As “Treasonous,” and Believed Russian Delegation Met With Candidate; Money Laundering and Obstruction of Justice Also at Issue; Trump Wanted Sessions To Shield Him As His Personal Roy Cohn; Trump Remorse Parallels Brexit Remorse: Growing Majority of British People Now Want to Stay in EU; Tory Leader Lord Heseltine Says Labour Government Is Better Than Brexit Under May; Tony Blair Demands Another Vote on Final Agreement, Warning Labour’s Corbyn That Brexit Means Endless, Crushing Austerity

December 30, 2017 WCR

Trump’s Assertion of “Absolute Right” To Autocratic Control of Justice Department Is Recipe For Abuse of Power and Dictatorship; Formula For Oval Office Model Sentence: Noun + Verb + “No collusion!”; Robert Mueller Is An Authentic American Folk Hero Whose Ouster Would Come at Prohibitive Cost; With Tax Cut Already Priced In, Interest Rates Rising, and Quantitative Tightening Ongoing, Stage Is Set For Collapse of Trump Stock Bubble in 2018; Christie’s Sabotage of Hudson River Tunnels to Please Predatory Billionaire Donors Shows GOP Will Never Take Infrastructure Seriously; New National Security Strategy Incompetent, Lacks Emphasis on Anti-Missile Defense Against All Threats; Impeachment Is Primarily For Defense of Constitutional System; Happy New Year to Our Friends and Listeners!

December 23, 2017 WCR

Christmas on Brink of Worst Constitutional Crisis Since 1860: Putsch Alert Continues As Trump White House Redoubles Raving Attacks; Intent to Fire Mueller Denied, But Russiagate Is Branded as “Hoax”; More Warnings From Warner, Wyden, Cummings; Schiff Cites Russian Money Laundering and Loan Guarantees; Nikki Haley Must Go After 128-9 U.S. Diplomatic Rout at United Nations (With 35 Abstentions, 21 Not Voting) Over Trump’s Reckless Jerusalem Decree; Her Gangster Methods A Scandal; Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao Cannot Stay After Holiday Failures at Atlanta and Dallas Airports, Tacoma Trainwreck; Like McClellan During Seven Days’ Battles, GOP Billionaires’ Toadies Now Forced to Defend Money Supply Line, Offering Vulnerable Flank for 2018; Season’s Greetings to Listeners and Friends!

December 16, 2017 WCR

Pre-Christmas Coup Looms Over Washington: Rep. Speier Warns of Trump Plan to Fire Mueller on Friday, December 22, Setting Up Greatest Constitutional Crisis Since Civil War; Refusing to Seat Legally Elected Senator Jones, GOP Hill Thugs Race to Ram Through Killer Tax Scam and Strip Health Care From Tens of Millions in Permanent Austerity Dictatorship; White House and Kremlin Speak in Unison; Tillerson Attempt at Diplomacy With Kim Sabotaged; Reported Rage Tantrums and Denial of Reality Evoke Ominous Twentieth-Century Cases; See Act.MoveOn.org For Mueller Contingency Protests To Roll Back Putsch; Ady Barkan Calls For Stop GOP Tax Scam Demonstration at Congress on Monday, Dec. 18

December 9, 2017 WCR

Schumer and Pelosi Must Listen to 58 House Democrats Who Supported Al Green’s Bid For Impeachment Debate; Weak Democrats Concede Two-Week Spending Authority, Letting GOP Complete Massive Killer Tax Bill; Must Tie Budget to DACA, Obamacare Fix, Ban on Entitlement Cuts in 2018; Democrats Unwisely Elevate Zero Tolerance of Harassment Over All Other Issues; Urgent Measures Needed To Stop World War III Danger (North Korea, Iran Confrontation, and Israel-Palestine Meddling); Economic Hecatomb From GOP Tax, Health Care, and Entitlements Assault; and Consolidation of Permanent Austerity Dictatorship Via Packing of Federal Judiciary; Question of Foreign Intelligence Agencies and Accusations of Turpitude

December 2, 2017 WCR

In Pyrrhic Victory, GOP Tax Scam Passes Senate 51-49; Monster Bill Spells Immiseration and Decline for U.S. If Enacted; Next Step for Desperate Demagogues Is Either Haggling in Conference Committee or Bid to Railroad Senate Bill Through Rubber-Stamp House; Stop Them!; Mueller Turns Flynn Into Government’s Star Witness With Deal for Guilty Plea As Trump, Kushner, and Pence Tremble in Twilight of Regime; Attempt to Oust Mueller Would Open Constitutional Crisis; Britain First Islamophobic Retweets Antagonize Great Britain and Netherlands; Twenty-Fifth Amendment Increasingly Discussed As Public Concern About Mental Impairment in Oval Office Grows

November 25, 2017 WCR

GOP Tax Plan Designed to Loot 99%, Reward Billionaire Donors; Doubling Standard Deduction More Than Cancelled Out by Ending All Personal Exemptions; Families With More Than Three Dependents Hurt; Much-Touted Child Tax Credit Increase Not Refundable, Helps Rich Families; No More Tax Credit for Elderly and Disabled; Alimony Deduction Gone; Top Bracket Kicks in at Higher Income, Reducing Tax Bite on Wealthy; Pass-Through Income to Fat Cats Favored; Ending Estate Tax and Alternative Minimum Tax a $1.5 Trillion Plutocrats’ Bonanza; Reliance on Chained CPI Gouges $125 Billion from Modest Earners; Repeal of Deductions For State and Local Taxes, Student Loans, and Teacher Supplies, Plus Attacks on Graduate Tuition Waivers, Employer-Paid Courses, and University Endowments Disastrous For Urban States and Education at All Levels; Mobilize To Stop This Monstrosity!

November 18, 2017 WCR

Judge Moore’s Defeat Can Start Rollback of GOP Permanent Austerity Dictatorship and Trigger Breakup of Republican Party; Trump Regime Now Blundering Down Two Paths to World War III in North Korea and Saudi Arabia; Republican Tax Bill Attacks Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid, Triggering Hecatomb of American Carnage; Struggle Against War, Genocide, and Dictatorship Must Subsume Identity Politics Orthodoxy; Franken, Menendez, and Every Other Vote Indispensable Right Now to Defend American People; Zimbabwe Coup Approved by Beijing Imperialists; Luther’s “Sin Lustily” Helps Dupes Rationalize Support For Moore; Tales of Thanksgiving in Rome, Paris, and Frankfurt; Happy Thanksgiving to Listeners and Friends!

November 11, 2017 WCR

After Cowardly Appeasement of Dictator Xi in China, Weak Embattled Minority President Grovels for Putin on Russian Election Meddling; Asia Trip Ending With No Gains on North Korea, South China Sea or Trade; U.S. Marginalized By Bannonite Bungling; Lebanon’s President Gen. Michel Aoun Demands Saudis Release Prime Minister Hariri, Reportedly Held Hostage; Boy Wonders of the World Unite: Did Kushner Connive In Planning for Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s Klutzy Coup d’État This Week?; Beware Trump Sponsorship of Saudi Attack on Iran That Would Drag U.S. Onto New Path to World War III

November 4, 2017 WCR

After Mueller Indictments, Trump Regime on Borrowed Time; Manafort Linked to Top Russian Underworld Boss Mogilevich, But RT is Silent; Beware Trump Appeasement of Xi By Making South China Sea a Beijing Lake in Exchange for Empty Promises on North Korea; Putin and Xi Must Oust Their Puppet Kim of North Korea or Face Space-Based Laser Defense Shielding U.S. and Allies From Nukes; Oriental Despotism on the March; Many Indictments of Henchmen Prepared Nixon Ouster; A Mirror for Sessions: Nixon’s AG John Mitchell Spent 19 Months in Jail For Conspiracy, Obstruction of Justice, and Perjury; Time to Remove Defeated and Discredited Clinton-Pelosi-Podesta Forces From Democratic Party Leadership; Obamacare Open Enrollment Now; Vote Northam in Virginia and Murphy in New Jersey Next Tuesday to Warn GOP

October 28, 2017 WCR

On the Path to World War III: Three U.S. Carrier Battle Groups in Western Pacific As Diplomacy Has Broken Down; Spanish Government Ousts Amateur Secessionist Puigdemont and His Clique; New Elections Set for December 21; House GOP’s Killer Dream Budget for Finance Oligarchs Barely Passes 216-212, Even With Speaker Voting; McConnell vs. Bannon Feud Shreds GOP; Despite Paranoid Legends, Uranium Sample Delivered by Mueller to Moscow in 2009 at Request of Russian Government Was Forensic Evidence For Tracing Stolen Fissile Material; New Italian Election Law May Stymie Grillo’s Forces of Chaos; GOP’s Battle of the Bulge Assault on Russiagate Falling Flat As Mueller Obtains First Sealed Indictments

October 21, 2017 WCR

Dueling Threats of Nuclear War from North Korean Madmen and Dilettante Pompeo Show Need for U.S. Missile Defense Using Space-Based Lasers; Behind the Tragedy of Four Special Forces Soldiers: Chaos and Terrorism in Niger and Sahel Area of Sub-Saharan Africa Triggered by 2011 Assault on Qaddafi’s Libya, Which Helped Stability for Entire Region; How Trump Regime Misfits Bungled Relations With Neighboring Chad; Kelly’s Mendacious Tirade Against Rep. Wilson Is Dishonorable and Insubordinate; What Is Sacred In U.S. Is Tradition Of Civilian Rule; Reports of @Ten_GOP Depict Party’s Campaign As Potemkin Troll Farm; Russian Splinter Factor Tactics Ominously Identical To Republican Wedge Issues

October 14, 2017 WCR

After Delphic Oct. 5 “Calm Before the Storm” Riddle and Corker’s Oct. 8 World War III Warning, Regime Going Berserk In All Directions; U.S. Now On Collision Course With Iran and North Korea Amid Reports of New Nuclear Arms Race; Allies Needlessly Antagonized by Threat to JCPOA; Dastardly Betrayal of Americans of Puerto Rico Continues; Midnight Decree Guts Obamacare Cost Sharing Subsidies, Endangering Coverage for Millions; Fraudulent Placebo Insurance Touted as Freedom of Choice by Reactionary Talkers Rushing to Tranquillize Victims; Attack on First Amendment Escalates; Many Left Liberal Mush-Heads Still Clueless on War Avoidance Through Strategic Defense; Barcelona Secessionists Lose Momentum As Puigdemont Stalls

October 7, 2017 WCR

“The Calm Before the Storm”: Will It Be Another War, Or Indictments Against The Regime?; Mueller Team Interviews Author of Kompromat Dossier; GOP Budget Resolutions Feature Killer Cuts to Social Programs Trump Had Vowed to Defend; $1.5 Trillion in Tax Cuts For Super-Rich Eyed; Catalonia Needs An End to Austerity and Enhanced Autonomy as Part of Spain, Not the Reckless Adventure of Secessionism Under Plutocrat Clique Around Puigdemont; Major Economic Interests Flee Barcelona As Secessionist Trolls Harass Reporters; Ban on Bump Stocks Might Pass Because Fanatics Lack Obama As Enemy Image
 

September 30, 2017 WCR

No “Good News Story”: San Juan’s Mayor Cruz Brands Trump’s Woefully Inadequate Puerto Rico Relief Effort As “Close to Genocide”; Gen. Honoré Confirms Aid Is “Slow and Small”; Urges New Commander To Order Air Drops and Break Rules of Bureaucratic Cost Accounting to Save Lives; White House Losing Contact With Objective Reality as Failures, Scandals, and Crises Multiply; Sen. Nelson (D-FL) Calls For Debt Relief For Puerto Rico, But Interests of Vulture Fund Bondholders Dominate Oval Office; Jet-Setting HHS Secretary Price Ousted For Private Charter Flights That Are Dwarfed By Trump’s Costly Weekend Junkets; Price Was Directing Efforts to Wreck Obamacare by Stealth Sabotage

September 23, 2017 WCR

McCain Serves Country Over Party With No Vote on GOP’s Graham-Cassidy Atrocity; Killer Bill Not Yet Defeated, So Keep Calling Senate via U.S. Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121; They Must Vote No on This Turkey!; Role of Kimmel Shows American Democracy Has Deep Resources; Republican Responding to Cash Ultimatum by Multi-Billionaire Mega-Donors Who Want Tax Bonanza; Critique of PBS Vietnam Series: Fails to Identify Real Authors of Failed Strategy, Including Wall Street’s Harriman-Bundy Clique; Neglects Strategy of Fortified Defensive Line Along Seventeenth Parallel to Cut Ho Chi Minh Trail; German Voters Can Prevent Forces of Chaos From Appearing Stronger Than They Really Are: Gehen Sie Wählen!

September 16, 2017 WCR

Anti-Immigrant Backlash Splinters GOP Regime After Hints of Dream Act Compromise; Veteran Trump Backers Issue Anathemas as Disillusioned Dupes Burn Their MAGA Hats; Democrats Dividing Along Pro-Wall Street vs. New Deal Lines After Debut of Landmark Bernie Sanders Medicare for All Plan Backed By Seventeen Senators; Issue Has Mass Traction Far Beyond Mere Identity Politics; World War Two Era Defense Department Film “Don’t Be A Sucker” Compares U.S. Nativists to Nazis, Highlighting Divide and Conquer Techniques On Race, Creed, Color, Nationality Also Used In 2016 Russian Hot Button Facebook Posts and Traditional GOP Wedge Issues; Beware Another Republican Attack on Health Care Over Next Two Weeks

September 9, 2017 WCR

Trump-Schumer-Pelosi Package Passes Senate By 80-17 and House by 316-90; GOP Tea Party Extremists Vote No To Flaunt Contempt for American People; Hensarling of Texas Votes Against His Own State; Legislative Crunch Set for Mid-December; Trump Antagonizes Lawmakers Who May Soon Decide His Fate; GOP’s September Sabotage and Extortion Strategy Crumbles as Party Fragments; Recalling British Labour Party Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, The Turncoat Who Ditched His Own Party in 1931 to Be Figurehead For Tory “National Government” Based on Killer Austerity; Trump Joining Pariah President John Tyler (1841-1845) aka “His Accidency,” Opposed by Both Parties; King Lear on the Heath

September 2, 2017 WCR

Cruel and Stupid Trump Regime Staggers into September Crisis of Debt Limit, Budget, Hurricane Relief, Stock Tremors, and North Korea; Ryan, Hatch, Corporate Chiefs Warn Trump Against Likely Move to Deport 800,000 Dreamers; Gutting of DACA Will Trigger Social Chaos and New Collapse of Support; With Mattis, McMaster, Kelly All in Peril, Only Sycophants Are Safe; Embattled Regime Now at 34% Approval With 61% Disapproving--Nixon Had 25% Backing In Last Days; Will Don Test Truman’s 22% Postwar Low, G.W. Bush’s Record Negative of 69%?; Danger of Cumulative Radicalization; Need Mass Actions for 40 Million Jobs Paid for by Wall Street and Fed

August 26, 2017 WCR

Trump Allies Warn White House That Hurricane Harvey Poses Critical Test for Competence of Regime; Government In Disarray With Three Top Posts Unfilled at Homeland Security; National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Lacks Permanent Chief; FEMA Boss Brock Long’s Focus Has Been Attacking Flood Insurance -- Will He Be the New “Heck of a Job” Brownie?; Texas Gov. Abbot Requested Pre-Emptive Declaration of Disaster Area Midday Friday, But Trump Dithered For Many Hours With Camp David Trip, Gorka Ouster and Arpaio Pardon; Rule of Law In Peril; Still No Signed Opioid Emergency Order; From Mobilization to Repression: What Happens to Cultural Populist Movements After They Take Power ?; Examples Include Cola di Rienzo, Savonarola, Luther, Calvin, and Robespierre

August 19, 2017 WCR

Bannon Ousted From White House, Hastening Breakup of Regime; He Pontificates That Trump Presidency Is Over; Forecasts Rebellion by GOP Congressional “Moderates”; Democrats Must Launch Program for 40 Million Jobs Paid For By Wall Street and Fed; Gorka Reputed Next to Go; Trump’s Isolation Grows as Military Brass, Big Business, and Large Parts of GOP Flee; Sen. Corker Doubts His Stability as Support Erodes in Senate; Two Statues of Dred Scott Decision Author Roger Taney Quickly Removed in Maryland; Pressure Grows on Zinke at Interior to Remove Albert Pike Statue From Federal Land In Capital; Confederates At Court Houses Deserve Top Priority; Lost Cause: Did Robert E. Lee Kill More American Soldiers Than Hitler?

August 12, 2017 WCR

North Korean Crisis Catalyzes Long-Overdue Public Awareness of Anti-Missile Defense, Now in Demand After Decades of Neglect; Trump Continues to Trade Puerile Insults With Pyongyang, While Blurting Out Threat of Military Intervention Against Venezuela; Groveling for Putin Over Expelled U.S. Diplomats is Retroactively Explained as “Sarcasm”; Issue of Unfitness for Office Looms Larger: Former Senator Gordon Humphrey Campaigning to Activate Twenty-Fifth Amendment To Protect U.S. From Trump’s Reckless Behavior; Sixteen GOP Senators Side With McConnell Against Trump; Ominous Rumblings in Stock Market; Republican Party Overripe for Extinction

August 6, 2017 WCR

Mueller Reportedly Has Convoked Russiagate Grand Jury in Washington DC, Escalating Probe; Subpoenas for June 2016 Collusion Meeting Thought Imminent; Transcripts of Calls With Foreign Leaders Prove Cynical Nihilism; Weakening in Polls, Trump Poses As Victim, Showing Likely Anti-Impeachment Platform for GOP in 2018 Elections; Senate Leaves Capital, But Will Conduct Pro-Forma Sessions to Block Recess Appointment of New Puppet Attorney General; Nihilist-Nativist Assault On Actual Symbols of American Nationalism, From White House to Statue of Liberty; Emma Lazarus Poem “The New Colossus” Is Fine Petrarchan Sonnet and Likely America’s Most Famous Poem; Will Liberty Bell, Golden Gate, Motherhood, and Apple Pie Be Next Alt-Right Targets?

July 22, 2017 WCR

After Six Months in Office, Trump Eyes Pardon For Himself; But In 1974, Nixon’s Lawyers and DOJ Agreed That President Can Exercise Executive Clemency Only Towards Others; Despite Threats, Mueller Reported Probing Eight-Person Meeting, Business Dealings With Russian Oligarchs; McConnell Still Trying to Pass Killer Health Bill With Dwindling Votes; Senate Parliamentarian Excludes Key Features From Budget Reconciliation Path; GOP Death Spiral Continues as Infighting Spreads; Irrationalism of Trumpland Fundamentalist Evangelicals Traceable to Early Luther, Finds Slavophiles Congenial

June 15, 2017 WCR

Russian Counter-Intelligence Veteran Attended June 2016 Trump Campaign Oppo Meeting Set Up By Smoking Gun Emails; GOP Reeling After Breaking of Siegfried Line of Russiagate Denials; Tidal Wave of Leaks Reflects Escalating Conflict Among Members of White House Inner Circle; Beware Kremlin-Assisted Diversionary Counterattacks Disguised as Exposés of Iraq WMD and Other CIA Operations; McConnell’s Latest Trumpcare Savagery Includes Even More Killer Cuts to Medicaid, Plus Cruz Fraud of Fake Insurance; Collins and Paul Say They’re Opposed; Pressure Urgently Needed on Murkowski, Portman, Heller, Lee, and Capito To Vote No This Week

July 8, 2017 WCR

Trump Appeases Putin in Summit of Nihilism, Dismisses Russiagate As Annoying Distraction Concocted by U.S. Media; Lavrov’s Report of U.S. Kowtow More Plausible Than Tillerson’s Account; Trump Pays Lip Service to Mutual Defense in Warsaw, But Fails to Stand Up For Allies by Condemning Kremlin’s Meddling in European Elections, Violation of Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, Support for Taliban in Afghanistan, Montenegro Putsch Attempt; Decline of the West Speech in Poland Channels Historical Pessimism of Oswald Spengler, Clashes With Moment of Guarded Optimism For Europeans, Who See Threats to EU Receding

June 1, 2017 WCR

More Indications Trump Backers Colluded With Russian Hackers to Subvert 2016 Election; U.S. Declaration of Independence Condemned Tyranny of George III, Citing “Obstructing the Laws for Naturalization Of Foreigners”; “Obstructing the Administration of Justice”; Imposing “Jurisdiction Foreign to Our Constitution” Using “Pretended Legislation” and “Foreign Mercenaries”; American Revolution Started in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, August 15, 1774; Celebrating the Birthday of G.W. Leibniz: Among Greatest Minds of Second Millennium: Inventor of Computers, Calculus, and Steam Engine, and Inspiration For Classic American Optimism, Born July 1, 1646; His Opponent Voltaire a Scurrilous Venetian Asset; The Key Role of Antonio Conti of Venice, the Original for Senator Pococurante in Candide

June 24, 2017 WCR

GOP Senate Leader McConnell Attempts Cynical Coup to Strip Americans of Entitlement Rights for First Time in U.S. History; Wrecking of Obamacare Could Be Signed Into Law by End of Next Week; Time for Political Resistance Is Now; Purported GOP Critics Are Largely Fake; Senate Bill Gouges Medicare Even More Than “Mean” House Version; Democrats Must Counter Sabotage By Private Insurers With Obamacare Public Option in Form of Medicare For All at $200 Per Person Per Month, Helped By Revenue From Wall Street Sales Tax; Russian Posture Increasingly Truculent As ISIS Collapse Creates Power Vacuum

June 17, 2017 WCR

Trump Confirms Leaks, Tweets Admission He Is Under Investigation for Obstruction of Justice; Washington Gripped By Reports Special Counsel Mueller May Soon Be Fired, Triggering Most Dangerous Constitutional Crisis of Our Time; National Interest Requires That Democrat Jon Ossoff Soundly Defeat GOP’s Karen Handel on Tuesday June 20 In Special Election for Georgia’s Sixth Congressional District; All Persons of Good Will Should Lend A Hand; Required Reading: Eric M. Freedman’s Distinguished 1999 Essay “On Protecting Accountability” Arguing That Presidents Can Indeed Be Indicted Before They Are Impeached

June 10, 2017 WCR

Comey Testimony Viewed by Tens of Millions; Scathing Indictment of President Is Historic Watershed; White House Lawyers Threaten Complaint Against Comey As Leaker; In Foolhardy Gesture, Trump Pledges to Testify Under Oath About Obstruction of Justice; British Voters Reject Brutal Tory Austerity and Hard Brexit; Theresa May’s Majority Gone as Labour Gains 31 Seats; Hung Parliament Means No Party Has Majority; May Attempts to Cling to Power With Votes from Ulster Unionists, Who Want Soft Border With Ireland; Scottish Secessionists Lose Big, While Farage’s Europhobic UKIP is Wiped Out; Bannon’s International Subversion Strategy in Ruins; Recalling Hamilton’s Federalist 65, Which Describes Impeachment as Response to “Misconduct of Public Men” and “Injuries Done Immediately to Society Itself,” Not Narrow Statutory Crimes; Free Reality Winner!

June 3, 2017 WCR

Trump Cuts Off His Nose to Spite His Face With Bannon-Inspired Exit From Paris Climate Change Accord; Another Needless Step Towards Chinese World Domination; Move Is Attempt to Erase A Dozen Major Broken Promises and to Stanch The 1% Per Month Decline in Hard-Core True Believer Base, Now At Just 19%; In Run-Up to UK Election, Anti-May Ballad “Liar, Liar” Hits Top of British Pop Music Charts; Brexit-Style Cultural Populism a Demagogic Theater of Rage and Resentment, While Economic Populism Is a Rational Appeal to Enlightened Self-Interest, Accomplished Through Concrete, Measurable Economic Reforms; Alt-Left Exposed as Dupes By Putin’s Admission That “Patriotic” Russian Hackers Meddled in U.S. Election

May 27, 2017 WCR

Kushner Revealed as Alleged Person of Interest in FBI Russiagate Investigation; Said to Have Asked Russian Ambassador To Enable Secret Communications With Kremlin; NSC Chief McMaster Claims He’s Not At All Concerned; Rehabilitated Bannon Setting Up War Room Staffed With “Street Fighters”; Congress Wants To See All Trump Campaign Records Regarding Russia; Presidential Bungler Issues Outrageous Insults to Germany; Another Defeat for the Moslem Ban as Fourth U.S. Circuit in Richmond Rejects Second Executive Order By 11 To 3 Vote; Chief Judge Notes Measure “Drips with Religious Intolerance, Animus, and Discrimination”

May 13, 2017 WCR

Constitutional Crisis Deepens As Neo-Nixonian White House Refuses To Deny Taping Conversations with Comey and Others; End to Daily White House Press Briefings Threatened; Alexandria Grand Jury Joins Senate Intelligence Committee in Issuing Subpoenas for Documents From Flynn and Associates; Comey Backers Say Trump Invited FBI Chief to White House to Extort Pledge of Personal Loyalty; Will Deputy AG Rosenstein Play Bork, or Will He Name Special Prosecutor?; Merci La France: Thanks to French People for Breaking Nihilist Wave; Perils of Taping: Smoking Gun Tape of August 5, 1974 Proving Obstruction of Justice Triggered Nixon’s Resignation Four Days Later; Recalling Lawrence Walsh, the Flushing High School Graduate Who Became a Profile in Non-Partisan Courage in Ike’s DOJ and as Iran-Contra Special Prosecutor (1986-1993)

May 6, 2017 WCR

In Seismic Political Shift, Twenty House GOP Incumbents Have Their Re-Election Chances Downgraded After Voting For Trumpcare; Democrats’ Chances to Flip House Increasing; Widely Reviled Bill Seen As Job-Killer for Republicans; Pelosi Rejects Medicare for All as Key Plank for 2020 Platform; Comedian Bill Maher Urges Democrats to “Ease Up on Identity Politics”; In French Election, Macron Pulls Further Ahead of Le Pen After Last Debate, 63-37%; Kremlin-Backed Hackers Launch Feeble Attempt to Stampede Voters With Mass of Nondescript Emails From Macron Campaign; French Press Sees Propagation of Macron Leaks by “Fachosphere” of U.S. Alt-Right; Move is Destined to Augment Momentum of Russiagate Probe in Washington on Eve of Sally Yates Senate Testimony on Monday

April 29, 2017 WCR

Trump’s Reckless Quips About “Major, Major Conflict” With North Korea Reek of Wag the Dog Tactics; Are Bizarre Demands for $1 Billion for THAAD and Bilateral Trade Pact Revision Intended to Sabotage US Alliance With South Korea, Appeasing China’s Xi By Pushing Seoul Into Neutrality?; Economic Boycotts By Beijing to Keep South Korea Defenseless Against DPRK Missiles Are Unfriendly Act of Hegemonism; For War Avoidance, Direct Talks with Pyongyang and More ABM Deployments (THAAD, Patriot, Aegis) Must Start At Once; Trumpcare Fails Again in Congress, While Extortion Against Sanctuary Cities is Frozen By Court; After 100 Days, Loss of 7% Support Suggests a One-Term Presidency

April 22, 2017 WCR

Lincoln Said One War at a Time, but Trump Foments Confrontation with North Korea, Russia, Syria, and Iran; Predicts Paris Terrorism Will Benefit Le Pen, But Anti-Nihilist Revulsion May Defeat Her; Trump Enrages Democrats with New Bid to Destroy Obamacare and Inflict Tax Cuts for the Rich; 100 Days May End In Government Shutdown on April 28; Congressmen Shell-Shocked by Town Hall Protests Against GOP Misrule; As Forecast, Gorsuch Casts First Supreme Court Vote to Kill Random Inmate Caught in Arkansas Execution Spree

April 8, 2017 WCR

Seeking to Save Syrian Terrorist Rebellion of ISIS and Nusra from Impending Collapse, White House Embraces False Flag Gas Provocation as Pretext for Attack on Assad; Domestic Policy Defeats and Abysmal 35% Approval Add to Attractions of Classic Wag the Dog Adventurism; Support for “War President” Posturing Could Cause Addiction to Aggression, With Escalation Toward General Nuclear War, Starting with DPRK; Consternation Among MAGA Dupes; Gorsuch Nomination Passes 54-45 Thanks to Nuclear Option; Exactly A Century Ago, Woodrow Wilson Shocked His Dupes By Entering World War I; US Commander Pershing was Favorite General of Wall Street and House of Morgan

April 1, 2017 WCR

Thirty-Six Democratic Senators Now Pledged to Filibuster Gorsuch This Week; Five More Needed to Reach Necessary Minimum of Forty-One; Ten Still Undecided, and Two Supporting Cloture; Time to Call Mitch McConnell’s Bluff on “Nuclear Option”; Pre-Emptive Surrender Not an Option in Face of Permanent Austerity Dictatorship; Former NSC Director Flynn Will Plead Fifth Amendment if Not Granted Immunity; Nunes Was Given Documents by White House Staffers in Juvenile Information-Laundering Stunt; Trump Foolishly Antagonizes House GOP Tea Party Caucus, Who May Soon Hold Key to Impeachment

March 25, 2017 WCR

Trump-Ryan Attack on Obamacare, Medicaid, and Medicare Repulsed Without a Vote as GOP Ultra-Reactionaries and Moderates Revolt; Entire White House Deconstruction Agenda in Deep Trouble; Danger Is Now Deliberate Republican Sabotage of ACA to Validate Big Lie of “Death Spiral”; HHS Secretary Price Commands Many Wrecking Tools; Emboldened “Freedom Caucus” Extremists plus Assorted Austerity Ghouls May Stage Debt Ceiling and Default Crisis; Time to Parlay Healthcare Win into Anti-Gorsuch Filibuster; Rep. Schiff Cites Russiagate Evidence that Goes Beyond Circumstantial; CNN Reports FBI Counterintelligence Sources Say Coordination May Have Occurred; Obamacare Victory Won for American People by Activists and Demonstrators at Countless Town Hall Meetings, Protest Marches, and 5.5 Million Person Women’s March of January 21, The Largest in American History; Now Mobilize to Reject Gorsuch

March 18, 2017 WCR

House Must Reject GOP Demolition of Obamacare in Thursday Vote; Tell Your Congressman to Defeat Ryan Bill; Medicare For All Paid for by Wall Street Is the New Public Option; Comey Faces Russiagate Accountability in Monday Hearing; More Wages of Scandal-Hopping: White House Drags Britain and Germany into Swamp of Wiretap Accusations; Combination of Negotiations With THAAD Deployment Is Best Formula For War Avoidance with North Korea; Senate Must Reject Gorsuch for Supreme Court Seat; Wilders Defeat in Netherlands Signals that Planned Nihilist International May Fail to Launch

March 11, 2017 WCR

Over 15 Million Americans Will Be Stripped of Medical Insurance By Ryan Plan, Forecasts Brookings Institution; Republican Freezing and Capping of Medicaid Would Devastate Program that Pays for Half of U.S. Births and Long-Term Care, Says Former Medicare-Medicaid Director Slavitt; Medicare Trust Fund Would Be Left in Crisis and Defenseless Against Next GOP Attack; Ryan’s AHCA Is Massive Tax Windfall for “Unpopular” Cartels and Wealthy Rent-Seekers, Resulting In Upward Income Redistribution from Modest Earners to the Affluent; Chinese and Russian Arguments Against THAAD Anti-Missile Defense for South Korea are Without Merit; Treasury Secretary Mnuchin Calls on Ryan to Raise Debt Limit, Implements “Extraordinary Measures” to Stave Off Catastrophic U.S. Default; White House Must Invoke Fourteenth Amendment, Which Makes National Bankruptcy Illegal

March 4, 2017 WCR

Russiagate Takes Center Stage in Washington; Republicans Split Over Anti-Obamacare Tactics and “Border Adjustment Tax,” With No Joint Strategy for Fateful March 15 Attempt to Re-Impose Federal Debt Ceiling; Stock Bubble in Growing Peril; Retail Apocalypse Rolls on With Over 1,500 Stores Closing in Early 2017;
Nixon’s Anti-Leak Campaign Discovered No Leakers; Recalling the Late Nikita S. Khrushchev, a Populist Russian Leader Who Imagined a Quick Fix Could Solve His Strategic Problems But Blundered Into the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis; He Was Toppled Two Years Later for “Subjectivism,” “Hare-Brained Scheming,” and Adventurism

February 25, 2017 WCR

White House Reportedly Pushing FBI and Congress to “Knock Down” Russiagate; At CPAC, White House Ideologue Bannon Touts Three “Verticals”: Dismantling Multilateral Cooperation, Hobbesian Economic “Nationalism,” and “Deconstruction of the Administrative State”; Assails “Corporatist, Globalist, Media”; “Strategic Initiatives Group” Emerging as Parallel to National Security Council; Anti-Immigrant Parties Suffer More Reverses in Netherlands, Germany, Italy, and France; UK Independence Party Defeated in Pro-Brexit Citadel of Stoke-On-Trent; Recalling Julius Evola, Anti-American Misogynist and Alt-Right Guru

February 4, 2017

After Half a Century of Relative Quiescence, Renewed Politics of Protest Are Transforming Democratic Party and American Life in General; Brooklyn Crowd Gives Schumer C- Grade on His Performance as Senate Minority Leader; Issue of Immigration Ban May Be Decided by Three-Judge Panel of Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco; Does U.S. Face “Fourth Turning”?; Balancing Spontaneity vs. Organization and Program in Ebbs and Flows Ahead

February 2, 2017

How Venice Used Apocalyptic Religious Movements to Destabilize Its Adversaries: From the War of Ferrara (1482) and Savonarola in Florence to the post-1509 Venetian Promotion of Martin Luther During the War of the League of Cambrai, Triggering 130 Years of Confessional Warfare in Germany

January 28, 2017

January 31 May Be Last Chance to Join Obamacare/ACA; Executive Orders Close U.S. Borders to Seven Largely Moslem Countries, Advance Border Wall, and Assail Sanctuary Cities; 20% Tariff on Mexican Imports Dropped; State Department Disrupted by Loss of Top Administrative and Consular Personnel; For Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Birthday, Remembering the Original Heroic 100 Days of March 4 Through June 16, 1933, Which Stabilized the Country Through Real Achievements Like the Glass-Steagall Banking Act, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, the Civilian Conservation Corps, and Billions in Cheap Credit from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation