Friday Focus: Impeachment, Giuliani, Trump, and other news

By Robert A. Vella Amid the rising death toll and refugee crisis caused by Turkey’s military invasion of northern Syria Continue reading →

Sunday Topics: The second whistleblower, the cowering GOP, and the suspicious murder of a witness

By Robert A. Vella Topics for this Sunday include a second whistleblower in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump, congressional Continue reading →

Wednesday Focus: The Impeachment Inquiry

By Robert A. Vella The Impeachment Inquiry Yesterday, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced an impeachment inquiry into President Continue reading →

Monday Kickoff: A hemorrhaging megalomaniac, and a dying planet

By Robert A. Vella We kickoff this week with two simultaneously developing stories – fallout from President Trump’s whistleblower scandal, Continue reading →

U.S. tourism drops, GOP to cancel primaries, Trump coerces NOAA, Dem controversy, and health concerns

By Robert A. Vella Tourism to the U.S. is declining due to international concerns over mass shootings, xenophobia, trade wars, Continue reading →

Boris fails, Republicans are dropping like flies, Trump news, court news, and climate news

By Robert A. Vella Parliament dealt double blows yesterday to Boris Johnson’s intent to force a hard, no-deal Brexit as Continue reading →

As democracy dies, the last embers of resistance flare up in Hong Kong, Russia, and U.K. – but not in U.S.

By Robert A. Vella Democracy is dying.  Virtually everywhere we look around the world, authoritarians are on the rise.  Even Continue reading →

Sunday Topics, Glaciers, bunkers, blasts, demonstrations, racial hatred, credentials, and NRA’s Russia ties

By Robert A. Vella In a bizarrely prophetic ritual, Iceland officially commemorated the first loss of one of its glaciers Continue reading →