For today, a link to commentary from the Floutist via Consortium News; other articles are accessible by clicking on their names below. (Scroll down for UKRAINE 1-10-26, and scroll up for IRAN, MEDIA, WEST BANK, GAZA and VENEZUELA.) — MCM

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FROM JAN. 8  An abyss of lawlessness, by Patrick Lawrence | The Floutist / Consortium News  Donald Trump is running the same empire that Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama, and Biden ran. He is merely running it differently — more openly coercive, more nakedly dependent on power alone — because we are in a different time, and imperial America is now late-imperial America. READ MORE . . .

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