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Out with the old, outdated American Constitution and in with the new.
We, the Business Interests of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Profitability, ensure Domestic Acquiescence, provide…
 • Jim Freeman
How Has Trump’s Positioning Himself as the ‘Candidate of Peace’ in the 2024 US Presidential Election, Worked Out in His First Year?
Although we have thirty days yet to go in that first year, he promised to “extricate Washington from decades of endless wars.”
 • Jim Freeman
Control of Mass Media in America Has Passed to an Oligarchy, a Kick in the Teeth to Both Freedom of Speech and Press.
Thomas Jefferson saw a free press as absolutely vital for democracy, famously stating that he would prefer “newspapers without a government“ to a…
 • Jim Freeman
A ‘Pay to Play’ Congress End-Runs Democracy.
In case you find ‘pay-to-play’ ambiguous, it’s “an idiom describing a situation where services or favors are exchanged for money, often implying a form…
 • Jim Freeman
Enough Nonsense. There Is Only One Solution for Ukraine.
Russia must honor the terms of the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances, signed between Russia and Ukraine in 1994 by Boris Yeltsin, President of…
 • Jim Freeman
A Fish Rots from the Head, but Media and Apathy Mask the Stink: The Emoluments Clause
“We are a nation of law.” We keep telling ourselves that.
 • Jim Freeman
Truth Has Become the Bell That No One Rings
What is true and what is not used to be decided by scientific testing, or agreed upon by serious debate and historic example.
 • Jim Freeman
Watched, Tracked, and Targeted Life in Gaza Under Israel’s All-Encompassing Surveillance Regime.
This is an article from The Intelligencer, a section of nymag.com, that I have no permission to copy or use, although I’m forwarding the opening…
 • Jim Freeman
The Orange Man Introduces America’s First ‘Weaponized’ Presidency
And, who better to lead the band than our national Bully in Chief?
 • Jim Freeman

November 2025

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