migrant caravan

The Americas: China Encroaching, Migrants Caravanning, US Retreating, CARICOM Flailing, Venezuela Failing, Russia Reclaiming… It’s All a Trumpian Mess!

Monday, April 1, 2019 at 8:04 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

[Note: I have written 4,135 commentaries on this weblog over the past 15 years. What follows is the longest by far … Reports are that even a 33-character tweet tests the attention span of most people these days. Therefore, I fully appreciate how daring (or foolish) it is to publish this 21,000-character commentary. And no,… Read more.

Migrants Prove Ain’t No Wall High Enough to Keep ‘Them’ from Getting to US

Wednesday, December 12, 2018 at 7:24 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

No doubt you recall President Trump talking tough about stopping anyone from that migrant caravan from ever setting foot on US soil. He even made a show of ordering the military to reinforce border guards, telegraphing his intent to keep them out by any means necessary: Our military is being mobilized at the Southern Border.… Read more.

Migrant Caravan Has Mattis Abandoning Military Principles for Trumpian Politics

Thursday, November 1, 2018 at 7:49 AM

Written by Anthony L. Hall

An infectious feature of Trump’s presidency is the willingness of so many to abandon professional and personal principles to serve his amoral and often helter-skelter political agenda. Two of his Jewish advisers, Chief Economic Adviser Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, demonstrated this in spades. No doubt you recall the moment Trump informed the… Read more.