Political donations from billionaires and their family members made up 19% of all reported federal campaign contributions in 2024, the New York Times found. Donations from 300 billionaires and their immediate family members to federal elections in 2024 totaled $3 billion, either directly or through political action committees. read more
European leaders have rejected demands by US President Donald Trump to help ensure freedom of navigation in the key waterway. read more
America is going through something similar to 9/11 and will be far more influential. The damage to our national security, our economy, our relationship to the rest of the world cannot be understated. This is truly the death of the American empire. We are showing ourselves to be a paper tiger. We have denigrated our allies for the past 14 months and now they are saying F U. We are destroying the economies of ME countries who were desperately trying to move from a post-colonial world to economies based on something other than natural resource exploitation. read more
Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in the American island of Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to our Secretary of State a formal reply to a recent American message. And while this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or of armed attack. read more
Donald Trump says he hopes UK and China will send warships to Strait of Hormuz read more
President Trump says the US did not know about the Israel's plants to strike the South Pars gas field. But there is other reporting here in Washington this evening, suggesting that the Trump administration signed off on the Israeli air strike.
So, where's the truth in this situation? Did the US know? Did the US say yes, go ahead and strike South Pars? Or is the US in the dark, as Trump is saying?
So, which is it? Did we know and not realize the blowback? Or do we have no control/knowledge of Israel's actions?
Either way is a damning condemnation of this administration.