Kudos to Portland Oregon's 'Wall of Moms' protecting protesters

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Trump is a hypocrite but correct

Wow! It's truly hypocritical of 'colonial' American president Trump to warn African leaders about 'colonial' China but for once, he's correct. Cash-rich China is fond of making generous loans to African countries to build railways that no one uses, highways to nowhere, and shipping ports that no shipper uses. Then, when the African country can't make the payments, China repossess the infrastructure and gets its hands on a few natural resources to boot.

Read the story in the Globe and Mail

Trillions for war or trillions for universal health care and Mother Earth?

Exactly!

Read the story in the Guardian newspaper

Trump is finally getting his wish - a war

Sounds as if Trump (via America's proxies Israel and Saudi Arabia) is preparing to go to war against the rest of the Middle East. 

Read the ominous story on CBC

Afghanistan may be Trump's Waterloo

The headline in today's Washington Post reads,"Trump announces new strategy for Afghanistan that calls for a troop increase", which kind of reminds me of a Viet-Nam War protest song by Pete Seeger (photo above). The chorus goes...

"They were waist deep in the big muddy and the big fool said to push on." 

Watch the YouTube vid HERE