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| Tragedy in the White House:
Death of American Foreign Policy as We Have Known It |  | Washington, DC Feb. 28, 2025 - Today will go down in American history as one of the most shameful episodes in American foreign policy, as Trump reversed decades of American support for democratic states over authoritarian dictators by viciously attacking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, a guest in our own White House. Read more... |
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| Tim Walz Caught Telling the Truth | | View on Our YouTube Channel |  | Minneapolis, MN Feb. 27, 2025 - The Irish Star wrote that Tim Walz was "caught on tape" at a town hall meeting labeling the Trump administration as "fascists and Nazis". Walz, governor of Minnesota and Democratic candidate for Vice-President in the last election, has been relatively quiet since his defeat. Read more... |
| Trump Fires the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs | | View on Our YouTube Channel |  Washington, DC Feb. 22, 2025 - Washington, DC Feb. 22, 2025 - According to the A.P., President Donald Trump fired Air Force Gen C.Q. Brown Jr. as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Friday evening. The reasoning was to fire anyone who supports diversity and equity in the ranks. Gen. Brown held the position for 16 months with much of his time devoted the war in Ukraine and the expanded conflict in the Middle East. Trump was reported as posting on social media, "I want to thank General Charles 'CQ' Brown for his over 40 years of service to our country, including as our current Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is a fine gentleman and an outstanding leader, and I wish a great future for him and his family,"
Ironically, the firing of Gen. Brown sends a message in itself, as he is only the second black pentagon chief and is being replaced by a white man. Air Force Lt. Gen. Dan Caine is picked by Trump to replace Brown, who according to his military biography, was a career F-16 pilot who served on active duty and in the National Guard, whose most recent assignment was associate director for military affairs at the CIA. Also among those in military leadership fired during what is now being called the "Friday night massacre" was Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the first woman appointed to that position.
Commentary
See the pattern here, a minority and a woman? "He is a fine gentleman and an outstanding leader", so why did you fire him? This is just another power grab of many. It appears to me that those supporters of Donald Trump from the Nazi party, the KKK and other extreme right-wing groups devoted to the return of white supremacy, got the most bang for their vote when they supported Donald Trump. However, it parallels his opinion during the first term when he commented on the clash between demonstrators against police violence and the white supremacists in Charlottesville by saying there were, "very fine people on both sides."
The Trump administration has a bad habit of firing too many people in leadership in the government, however, when he goes after the military for political reasons, Commander-In-Chief or not, he is way out of bounds. We currently have a huge brain drain going on in the U.S. the last few weeks, as government employees in leadership positions are being forced from their positions. Why are they being fired? It is the strategy of Project 2025 to replace everyone in leadership in the government with "Yes-men" for the president and greatly strengthening the power of the Presidency over the government. Trump wasn't blowing smoke when he told us that he "would be a dictator on day one."
While campaigning for president, Trump disavowed Project 2025, yet now he is following the playbook page by page. In the first few weeks in office, he has stripped the guardrails, and unfortunately the brains, of the government, eventually replacing them with supporters - if replacing them at all. This is especially true if they are a part of the government that protects the American people from fraud, waste and abuse or enforces equal opportunity, like all the inspectors-generals and diversity watchdogs he has already fired. In reality, Trump is still angry because a former chairman in his first term refused to use the military to attack peaceful demonstrators who were embarrassing him outside the White House. That commander reminded Trump that the military is forbidden to use force against civilians unless there is an insurrection - such as the one he incited against Congress. Will the next one?
What now? Do we go back to the days when blacks and other minorities were the last picked for promotions and hazed; when women in the military were constantly looked down upon, regularly sexually harassed (if not assaulted); when white was right. As late as 1969, I recall a personnel NCO of a battalion unit who assigned southern white soldiers to the headquarters, but sent "Yankees and niggers", his words, to the DMZ or other units outside of Seoul. I guess he felt he could confide truth to me because I was a white soldier from Alabama. Why not just remove blacks and women back into separate units from white men like it was back in World War II for African Americans and until the seventies for females?
I have not always been a fan of the Army's affirmative action program, especially regarding promotions. I recall when I was the only non-Hispanic name on a promotion list of 21 NCO's promoted to Sergeant First-Class, simply because the promotion board member in my career area was a Hispanic sergeant major. He could not justify turning me down as I had too much experience and a masters degree extremely rare for enlisted. I recall badly inexperienced women being promoted so fast, that sergeant majors would not deploy them to important assignments simply because the women were too inexperienced to handle them. There were abuses.
However, you cannot turn back the clock. Minorities and women make up a high percentage of our military, and to try and take them back to the "good ole days" when whites reigned is not only bad for morale but will cause huge damage to military readiness. Of course, that is just one old 20-year soldier's opinion. Having had the additional duty of equal opportunity NCO in two units, I find this a really backward step.
Commentary from Larry Joe McDowell, Editor, Christian Press.
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| Zelensky Responds to Putin's Puppet |  | Washington, DC Feb. 20, 2025 - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has responded to criticism of Kyiv by Donald Trump, by saying that Trump is "living in a disinformation space" created by Russia. This was in response to Tuesday's remarks by Trump where he incorrectly said that Ukraine was responsible for the war with Russia and that Zelensky's popularity rating was only 4%. Read more... |
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| Trump Attacks Zelensky/Ukraine |  | Washington, DC Feb. 19, 2025 - Armed with Russian talking points from his recent talks with Putin, President Trump continued his attack on President Volodymyr Zelensky today accusing him of taking advantage of our country as we have supported him in his defense. Trump claims he has done a "terrible job" leading Ukraine in the war against Russia. Read more... |
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| Thousands Protest Against Trump's Actions in the First Weeks in Office |  | Washington, DC Feb. 17, 2025 - housands of protesters opposing many of the actions in the early weeks of Trump's second administration took to the streets in cities across the nation today. He is being called a "king" and a "dictator", using Trump's own words to describe himself. Read more... |
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| Vance Slams Our Allies and Downplays Our Enemies |  | Munich, Germany Feb. 14, 2025 - At the Munich Security Conference, Vice President Vance insulted our allies by telling them that their biggest threat to security was from within, rather than from Russia or China. He compared a young girl ecological activist to a man who, unelected and without any real authority, has been tearing down our government and shaming us in the world. Vance said, "If American democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg scolding, you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk". Read more... |
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