Donald Trump and 18 others have been accused of knowingly and willfully joining a racketeering enterprise to unlawfully change the outcome of the election (in Georgia) in favor of Trump. According to the Fulton County indictment, the enterprise contained a common plan and purpose to commit two or more acts of racketeering activity in Fulton County, Georgia, elsewhere in the State of Georgia, and other states.
Read More
Prosecutors brought counts against Trump and his associates, including forgery and racketeering, which is used to target members of organized crime group.
Read More
Donald Trump, another strongman, made an imperfect phone call to the Georgia Secretary of State. This phone call could be essential evidence of crimes against Trump. Jack Smith criminally charged him in his 45-page indictment.
Fulton County Attorney General Fani Willis uses the phone call in her criminal investigation of election interference. Georgia Republican elites, Trump’s attorneys and advisors, and others may be indicted.
Read More
It should be evident that there are totalitarian links among Trump, mobs, and the elite in our society. This attraction to totalitarian leaders by the elite is a clue to totalitarian movements as crucial as the connection to the mob ( Hannah Arendt).1 On January 3, 2023, Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to four charges related to the January 6 Capitol attack.
Read More
Donald Trump was indicted for Jan 6 conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government and obstruct an official proceeding. Jack Smith appeared before reporters in Washington D.C. to announce the indictment.
Read More
These books tell the stories of people directly affected by fallout from atmospheric nuclear explosions and the effects on those who mined for uranium in New Mexico and Arizona.
Read More
Oppenheimer, the movie highlights the scientific achievement of making an atomic bomb. J. Robert Oppenheimer and his collaborators at Los Alamos carried out this achievement. But, there was little to no concern about those who would come in contact with the fallout from these nuclear explosions, or those who mined for uranium. The fallout from the 216 bombs dropped from 1945 – 1962 covers nearly all of the United States. People became sick and suffered severe anxiety, paranoia, and depression. Thousands died of cancer. Military and civilian personnel at these locations participated in all U.S. atom bomb tests since the Trinity test 1945.
Read More
Donald Trump claims he is the target of a federal investigation of the January 6th insurrection. In this post, I speculate on one of the charges, and how, if he’s found guilty, he won’t be able to hold elected office in the U.S.
Read More
Ocean temperatures have been off the charts since mid-March 2023, with the highest average levels in 40 years of satellite monitoring, and the impact is breaking through in disruptive ways around the world.
What’s going on
Read More
Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat is professor of history and Italian studies at New York University. I subscribe to her newsletter, Lucid and I want to share it with you. She describes Lucid as a newsletter for big-picture thinking about autocracy and threats to democracy worldwide.
Read More
