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 Congress has spoken when it comes to next year’s Pentagon budget and the results, if they weren’t so in line with past practices, should astonish us all.

Honestly, if you had described this America to me more than half a century ago, I would have laughed in your face.Donald Trump becoming president? You must be kidding! If you want a bizarre image, just imagine him in the company of Abraham Lincoln. I mean, really, what’s happened to us? BY Tom Engelhardt 

Inflation has been on the rise in the United States, hitting a four decade high of more than nine percent, leaving many Americans with no choice but to dig deeper into their finances just to pay for gasoline, food, healthcare and rent.

I was born into another world, a year before the end of the Second World War. And in that world, my mother was something of a rarity.

This March, when the Biden administration presented a staggering $813 billion proposal for “national defense,” it was hard to imagine a budget that could go significantly higher or be more generous to the denizens of the military-industrial complex.

Russia's war on Ukraine has led to pain across the world. Food and fuel prices continue to rise, including in Singapore. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Hungarian PM’s stance on Russia’s invasion appears to have benefitted him domestically but has angered EU partners.

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. — Hunter S. Thompson, "September," Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72, p. 413. Imagine, just how programmed

I do not wish the worse for America. Hopefully it will become a good humble citizen of this planet. Yet so far, we haven’t seen any of this — what some people might call magical — transformation. Who has been the worse president? Trump or Biden? So far on international relations and on civil duties, Trump is behind by a clown nose.

For more than 20 years, the civilian casualties of the Global War on Terror have, at best, been nameless, faceless victims to most Americans.  They’ve been “30 pine nut farm workers” killed in a 2019 drone strike in Afghanistan or “a woman and child” slain in a similar attack a year earlier in Somalia.