Category Archives: Military Budget

To Mitch “Stonewall” McConnell: Thanks for Making Your Impeachment Coverup So Obvious

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Dennis SILVERMAN

To Mitch “Stonewall” McConnell:  Thanks for Making Your Impeachment Coverup So Obvious Also, as a plus, there are going to be several roll call votes on the Whitewash procedures, which will shade the Republican Senator’s participation in the coverup.  The … Continue reading →

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Confused by Trump: Too Much to Write About

Posted on February 15, 2019 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Confused by Trump:  Too Much to Write About Between Trump and AOC, there are too many topics to write about.  So I will just list the crucial short lines or paragraphs from what I would have written on the topics. … Continue reading →

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Setting of the Doomsday Clock at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists for 2019

Posted on January 24, 2019 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Setting of the Doomsday Clock at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists for 2019 The Doomsday Clock started measuring the time to midnight in terms of the danger of nuclear war and events.  It now includes risks from climate change … Continue reading →

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Trump Has Made the Department of Defense into Climate Liars

Posted on May 11, 2018 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Trump Has Made the Department of Defense into Climate Liars In a DoD report on Climate-Related Risk to DoD Infrastructure, Initial Vulnerability Assessment Survey (SLVAS) Report, drafters have removed the 23 mentions of “climate change”. This is what the report … Continue reading →

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Trump’s Encouragements of World Dictatorships

Posted on March 13, 2018 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Trump’s Encouragement of World Dictatorships An historical theory of world governments is that they tend to follow worldwide political trends. Countries follow each other in becoming more liberal and international, or more conservative and chauvinistic. They can become more democratic, … Continue reading →

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Public Attitudes About Science and Education

Posted on February 7, 2018 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Public Attitudes about Science and Scientists are also surveyed in the National Science Board 2018 report.  The surveys are from 2016. For Spending for Scientific Research, 45% thought that it was about right, 38% thought it was too little, and … Continue reading →

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The Many Benefits to the United States from Contributing to the UN

Posted on December 22, 2017 by Dennis SILVERMAN

The Many Benefits to the United States from Contributing to the UN Our unlettered foreign affairs President, fueled by Fox News, sees foreign affairs as a personality contest or ego enhancer.  With respect to the UN, he has always emphasized … Continue reading →

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Escalating the Current Red/Blue State Civil War

Posted on June 7, 2017 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Escalating the Current Red/Blue State Civil War America has been slowly escalating the contest between the Red and Blue states. These states differ in traditional policies, religiosity, and parties, including attempts in red states to limit poor and minority voting. … Continue reading →

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Two Sticks for North Korea, Three Carrots for Trump in Military Action

Posted on April 12, 2017 by Dennis SILVERMAN

Two Sticks for North Korea, Three Carrots for Trump in Military Action As we showed in the last post, Trump’s shunning of the State Department and the Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has left him without a deep negotiation option, … Continue reading →

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War Is Murderous by Any Means, and Trump Shuts Out Peaceful Options

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Dennis SILVERMAN

War Is Murderous By Any Means, and Trump Shuts Out Peaceful Options War is murderous to civilians by any means used. It is murderous to drafted soldiers. It is murderous to the aggressor’s civilians, as well as to the defender’s … Continue reading →

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