Author Archives: Harper

Attorney General Barr has named U.S. Attorney John Durham of Connecticut to head a DOJ investigation into the origins of Russiagate.  Durham appears to be an ideal choice.  When nominated as U.S. Attorney in 2017, he had the support of … Continue reading →

Wall Street has a bad case of the jitters over the threat of a new trade war eruption between the US and China.  It's in the nature of the markets to prematurely panic over any kind of uncertainty. In the … Continue reading →

Presidents Trump and Putin held a 90-minute telephone conversation on Friday.  Hopefully, it is the start of a long-overdue strategic dialogue to repair the damage done by Russia-gate and other political roadblocks thrown up in the way of a resumption … Continue reading →

With all the attention focused on tomorrow's release of the redacted version of the Mueller final report, more attention should be directed at the upcoming report of Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice, who is looking … Continue reading →

On Sunday, Representative Davin Nunes, ranking Republican on the House Select Committee on Intelligence, told reporters that he is about to make eight criminal referrals to the Department of Justice related to crimes committed in the launching of the Russiagate … Continue reading →

On March 25, a group of fringe neocons and alt-rightists surfaced in Washington to declare propaganda war against China.  The group, led by Steve Bannon, Frank Gaffney, Fred Fleitz, General Jerry Boykin and a handful of others, announced the formation … Continue reading →

President Donald Trump is more isolated than at any time since taking office.  And the prime cause of that isolation is John Bolton.  Since taking over as National Security Advisor to the President in April 2018, Bolton has purged everyone … Continue reading →

Someone astute once said "history repeats itself–the first as tragedy and then as farce."  Oh, yes, it was Karl Marx in his Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon.  Quite relevant to the subject. I have followed the beginning of the 2020 … Continue reading →

A BBC correspondent in Syria has proved, after a six-month investigation, that the horrific pictures of dying children in Douma, following the alleged Syrian government sarin gas attack, were staged and no such attack occurred.  Riam Dalati, a well-known BBC … Continue reading →