Michael Cohen book details Donald Trump’s racism, authoritarianism, and embrace of Vladimir Putin

By Robert A. Vella Donald Trump‘s longtime personal lawyer and “fixer” Michael Cohen has written a tell-all book about the Continue reading →

Rosenstein kneecapped Mueller in 2017, Fascism rising in U.S. and Europe, Trump pushes herd immunity

By Robert A. Vella Well, well, well.  Now we know why former Special Counsel Robert Mueller failed to completely investigate Continue reading →

GOP Convention and Trump’s corruption, plus pandemic, protest, international, and climate news

By Robert A. Vella Overshadowing the Republican National Convention this week are violent protests which have turned deadly in Kenosha, Continue reading →

The Portrait of a President, and the Day of Reckoning for a Nation

By Robert A. Vella In my dystopian science fiction novel The Martian Patriarch, I told the story of a villainous Continue reading →

Friday Roundup: Will the U.S. suffer the fate of Belarus?

By Robert A. Vella Right now in Belarus, the country is erupting in protest over its authoritarian president’s (i.e. Alexander Continue reading →

ODNI acknowledges the obvious: Russia is interfering in the U.S. 2020 election to help Donald Trump

By Robert A. Vella The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is an independent agency which assists the Continue reading →

The Defenders of Democracy counterattack against the Tide of Authoritarianism

By Robert A. Vella The tide of authoritarianism which has swept over much of the world over the last decade Continue reading →

State of the Race: The biggest poll number you’ve never seen, plus our new Electoral College snapshot

By Robert A Vella The focus for this Sunday is on the state of the U.S. presidential election.  We’ll closely Continue reading →