FINIAN CUNNINGHAM—Trump is accusing China of responsibility for the Covid-19 pandemic which has ravaged the world and the United States in particular. With the world’s highest number of deaths from the disease and the U.S. economy facing ruination, Trump is angrily trying to scapegoat China for the crisis, rather than being held to account for the inherent failings of his administration or the immanent problems of American capitalist society.
US EXCEPTIONALISM
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Victory Day – As Franklin Roosevelt Would Have Seen It
15 minutes readMARTIN SIEFF—It has been an almost unanimous consensus among Western historians that Roosevelt was a naive and childish appeaser of Josef Stalin and international communism. Instead, FDR’s successor Truman has been elevated as a far greater figure and the great hero in supposedly saving the West from Soviet conquest.
However, two outstanding recent histories by Susan Butler (“Roosevelt and Stalin”) and Nigel Hamilton “War and Peace: FDR’s Final Odyssey”) document and present a far different picture.
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DANIEL LAZARE—In less than three decades, a mere blink of the eye in historical terms, the United States has gone from the world’s sole superpower to a massive foundering wreck that is helpless before the coronavirus and intent on blaming the rest of the world for its own shortcomings.
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The USA Screwed Up the F-35 “Fifth-Generation Fighter Jet”
5 minutes readThe fifth-generation fighter jet, as the American imitators continue to stubbornly call the F-35 Lightning II turned out to be incapable to go supersonic. The Pentagon was forced to officially admit the problem and recommend to the pilots to fly at subsonic speeds.
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Trump’s “Bay of Pigs” in Venezuela (Dossier)
28 minutes readA pair of abortive armed landings by US-led mercenaries on Venezuela’s coast earlier this week has made it clear that the global coronavirus pandemic and the death and devastation it has wrought upon the American people have done nothing to curb US imperialism’s predatory and criminal pursuit of geostrategic interests in South America and across the globe.