The revolving door for violant thugs leads out of one thug department and into another.

They continue to main and kill, but they suffer the penalty of a lower salary.

The US conquest and occupation of Iraq were one cause of its economic weakness, which is enabling China to move towards dominating the world.

I think that its plutocratist decadence is, however, another cause. (The two are related.)

If this were no more than a matter of competition between countries, I would say, "Let the (most capable) country and system win." The reason I don't say that is that China would impose a totalitarian hell.

Since it appears that the leftist candidate has won Peru's presidential election, the right-wing candidate is making bogus accusations of fraud.

The next right-wing step may be to spend a lot of money to create an false impression that the election was stolen. It worked in Bolivia; it might work in the US; it may work in Peru if people don't organize to stop it.

*Pelosi: "beyond belief" that [the corrupter's] DoJ chiefs didn't know of secret subpoenas.*

If it is true that they did not know, it follows that the corrupter had undermined their control of the department in order to use it to undermine the US government.

Netanyahu's great achievement was to eliminate Israel's will to make peace with Palestine and replace that with the will to rule Palestinians for ever.