#1 is by James Bruno
I found this article on republished on AlterNet from the author’s blog Diplo Denizen.
Bruno describes himself in his blog as follows:
… the author of four bestselling books. He has been featured on CNN, NPR, BBC, SiriusXM Radio, Fox News and other media. His thrillers have been Amazon Kindle Bestsellers, reaching #1 in Political Fiction and #1 in Spy Stories. THE FOREIGN CIRCUS is a Kindle bestseller in Political Humor and Diplomacy. HAVANA QUEEN was denounced by the Castro propaganda machine. Mr. Bruno served as a diplomat with the U.S. Dept of State for 23 years. He holds M.A’s from the U.S. Naval War College and Columbia U., and a B.A. from George Washington U. He is a contributor to POLITICO Magazine and Washington Monthly and has been an instructor at ThrillerFest. His assignments have included Cuba, Guantanamo (as liaison with the Cuban military), Pakistan/Afghanistan, Vietnam, Cambodia and Washington, DC. He has spent ample time at the White House and has served in a Secret Service presidential protection detail overseas. He also knows the Pentagon, CIA and other agencies well.Based on his experiences, James Bruno's novels possess an authenticity rarely matched in the political thriller genre. His published and broadcast commentary has won national and international attention.
To pique your interest:
Excerpt: Politicians who slavishly parrot Russian propaganda fall into three categories: the Cynical (those who know better but peddle the lies anyway); Useful Idiots (those who are easily manipulated); and the Compromised (those who are actual Russian assets who do Moscow’s bidding because they were recruited one way or another).
The third category—being compromised by a foreign power—is the most sensitive. I therefore asked three intelligence veterans their views on the chances of some members of Congress being under direct Russian control.
This is an in-depth article by someone who knows what he is writing about. I recommend it.
#2 is in ThyBlackMan
ThyBlackMan is a website that describes itself as follows:
This blog was created to unite black men and remind us of our brotherhood and value as men in this society. This blog is for all black men, regardless of your vocation in life. We are more then just athletes and rappers (nothing against them if that is their passion), we are fathers and Christians, doctors and construction workers, lawyers and ministers, poets and painters, etc. etc. I think you get the point, that the trades we encompass are many and we make countless positive contributions to society. This is a place to unite us as black men, not to separate and divide. Lets come back together as brothers in Christ and encourage one another, let us uplift and inspire our daily walk of life. There are too many negative stereotypes in society today about black men.
This site is here to remind us that there are many, many positive things to talk about in us as black men. We are and can be a blessing to others and need to remember that we are children of God and to celebrate the culture we were born into. We have a responsibility to heed our call to manhood and continue to discover what it means to be a “real” man. There are men out there who don’t understand the first thing about what it means to be a real man (and that is not just our black men, it is all men, regardless of ethnic background), yet there are more good black men out there who DO understand the meaning of manhood (responsibility, honor, integrity, etc.) and we need to come together to grow as individual persons and as a people and remember to encourage one another. We can and should continue to do our best to leave this world a better place then how we found it.
God Bless you.
I discovered this article via my Google News alert because it referenced Duty to Warn founder Dr. John D. Gartner in this excerpt:
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When you combine Trump’s mental instability with his blind narcissism, and then add to that the fact that he’s being enabled by a Republican Party that’s in a panic over the loss of power due to a rapidly changing demographic, it becomes clear that the very viability of American democracy is in severe jeopardy.
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“John Gartner, Ph.D. is the founder of ‘Duty to Warn’ an organization intent on warning our country that we are in dire trouble due to our president’s mental instability. More than 60,000 mental health professionals have signed John’s petition, which states:
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‘We, the undersigned mental health professionals, believe in our professional judgment that Donald Trump manifests a serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President of the United States. And we respectfully request he be removed from office, according to article 4 of the 25th amendment to the Constitution, which states that the president will be replaced if he is ‘unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.’”
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If all of this sounds far-fetched, according to a 1990 Vanity Fair interview,
Ivana Trump once told her lawyer, Michael Kennedy, that Donald Trump kept a book of Hitler’s speeches near his bed – and as we all know, Trump doesn’t like to read. Thus, as has been repeatedly stated, when fascism comes to America it will come wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross, and considering that over 81% of White Evangelicals “Christians” support Trump’s criminality, that seems to be exactly what is happening. So yes, it can happen here, and let there be no doubt about it, anyone who supports Donald Trump is the domestic enemy of the United States.
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So in spite of the fact that Donald Trump is undoubtedly unstable, incompetent, and a Russian asset, with all their flag-waving and words of patriotism notwithstanding, and in spite of the fact that they’re going to be smothered in evidence of his criminality, the Republican senate is just as undoubtedly going to ignore the facts and refuse to remove Trump from office. That’s when our patriotism must swing into action. If the Republican senate can’t bring themselves to defend our Constitution, that says it all. It says that all the patriotic talk, posturing, and claims of loving Jesus is a sham. It says that when it comes right down to the bottom line, conservatives love three things, and three things only – power, bigotry, and greed, and therefore, it’s past time for them to join the Whigs and be relegated to the ash heap of history.
If you are interested in other articles I come across which arouse my interest as I scan between 10-15 news and opinion websites every morning check out my little blog. Oddly, this week I had more readers from Russia than from the United States. I wish I knew who my Russian and Chinese readers were.
Reader survey is about how Kossacks use the Internet.