Federal employees sue USDA secretary over Christian messaging

(RNS) — Asked to comment on the suit, a USDA spokesperson said: ‘While we do not comment on pending litigation, we will keep the plaintiffs in our prayers during this process.’

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins speaks during an event on the South Lawn of the White House, March 27, 2026, in Washington, as President Donald Trump looks on.

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Adelle M. Banks
May 13, 2026

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(RNS) — Federal employees are suing Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, arguing that her use of Christian messaging in the workplace is “unconstitutionally coercive.”

The lawsuit, filed Wednesday (May 13) in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, said Rollins “has adopted a practice of sending increasingly proselytizing communications to the entire USDA workforce, promoting her own preferred brand of Christian beliefs and theology to the captive audience of employees that report to her.”

The complaint was filed by the advocacy groups Americans United for Separation of Church and State and Democracy Forward Foundation and the California-based firm Bryan Schwartz Law on behalf of the National Federation of Federal Employees and seven named plaintiffs of a variety of faiths and no faith — including Jewish, Buddhist, pagan and atheist employees of the USDA, according to the lawsuit.

The union of more than 110,000 federal workers — including more than 19,000 USDA staffers — and the individuals charge that Rollins’ actions do not reflect the secular mission of the department.

Part of an an Easter email sent by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins on April 5, 2026. (Image via lawsuit)

“The Secretary’s practice reached a crescendo,” their complaint said, with an Easter (April 5) email that described the holiday as marking “the greatest story ever told, the foundation of our faith, and the abiding hope of all mankind.” It went on to declare “Jesus has been raised from the dead. And God has granted each of us victory and new life.” Her entire Easter message to “Team USDA” is attached to the complaint and features an illustration of a tomb with a stone rolled away and the words “Christ is Risen.”

Asked to comment, a USDA spokesperson said: “While we do not comment on pending litigation, we will keep the plaintiffs in our prayers during this process.”

The suing parties said Rollins’ Easter message “communicates that there is a preferred religious ‘in-group’ at USDA,” a sentiment not permitted by the establishment clause of the U.S. Constitution, which states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.” They also said her messaging violates a USDA policy adopted in November 2025 that requires department officials not to “use official authority to pressure subordinates” about their religious beliefs.

The union and individuals also allege that Rollins has not sent messages about holidays for other religions.

The complaint says it seeks to protect the rights of USDA employees from proselytizing and religious coercion, including those who may feel intimidated, fear retaliation for objecting to Rollins’ messages or feel compelled to hide their beliefs if they don’t share those of their department head.

“The Trump administration is waging a relentless and increasingly brazen crusade against church-state separation and the religious freedom of federal workers,” said Rachel Laser, president and CEO of Americans United, in a statement. “Trump is not Jesus, federal agencies are not churches, and cabinet secretaries are not government preachers.”

NFFE President Randy Erwin said employees of other government departments also have expressed concerns about the state of the federal workplace.

“Every agency feels like it’s the epicenter for a new outbreak of Christian Nationalism,” Erwin said in a statement. “We just want to do our jobs without having to fend off proselytizing and preaching.”

The suit goes on to describe “an escalating pattern of subjecting all USDA employees to proselytizing Christian messaging promulgated from (Rollins’) position of authority.” According to the suit, her July 4 message last year said, “May God continue to protect the United States of America and may His favor shine over all her land” and her Thanksgiving message expressed “gratitude towards a loving God.” In a Christmas video message addressed to department staff, she said, “The spirit of generosity flows from the very first Christmas when God gave us the greatest gift possible, the gift of his Son and our Savior Jesus Christ, who came to free us from our sins and open the door to eternal life. This is the reason for the season.”

The suing parties also state that they feel compelled to read Rollins’ email messages because they often include nonreligious information that may affect their job duties.

“And historically, even holiday emails from USDA leadership have included specific job-related announcements, such as, for example, notifications regarding administrative leave,” the plaintiffs said in the suit.

Body From Capsized Cargo Vessel Mariana Has Been Identified

Five crewmembers remain missing

The upturned hull of the Mariana (USCG)

Published May 7, 2026 11:29 PM by The Maritime Executive

 

Families of the lost crewmembers of the cargo ship Mariana have confirmed the identity of the sole body that divers recovered from the vessel's upturned hull. The victim has been identified as crewmember Chet Brochon, a local health care provider told the Pacific Daily News.

Mariana is a former offshore supply vessel converted to serve as a short-haul cargo vessel for operations between Guam, Tinian and Saipan. The vessel put to sea in advance of the arrival of Typhoon Sinlaku last month. It made a distress call reporting the failure of its starboard engine on April 15, then dropped out of contact, and its AIS signal ceased at about the same time. 

After a two-day search, an HC-130 Hercules aircrew spotted a capsized vessel ]about the size of Mariana at a position off the coast of Pagan, an uninhabited outlying island. Search crews also found a debris field and a partially-inflated liferaft, but no signs of survivors. 

Pararescue divers attended the scene on April 20, and with the assistance of the Coast Guard, they retrieved one body from the wreck. All five of the remaining crewmembers are missing; the Coast Guard has identified them as Landon Delos Reyes, Vincent Agulto, Captain Frederick “Fred” Nosek Jr., Jose Ramirez and Mohammed Rahaman.

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search operation last week. Surveillance operations conducted by the Japan Coast Guard remained under way as recently as Tuesday. 

 

U.S.-Flagged Cargo Ship Goes Missing During Passage of Typhoon Sinlaku

Super Typhoon Sinlaku spins towards the Northern Marianas Islands, April 13. The cargo ship Mariana was under way north of Saipan, in the outer bands of this storm (NASA)

Published Apr 17, 2026 10:28 PM by The Maritime Executive

 

The U.S. Coast Guard reports that a small U.S.-flagged cargo ship went missing off the coast of Saipan during the passage of Super Typhoon Sinlaku. An upturned hull - not yet identified - was spotted Saturday morning at a position 100 nautical miles away.

The Mariana is a U.S.-flagged offshore supply vessel repurposed for cargo and employed on a regular freight route between Guam, Tinian and Saipan. On the afternoon of April 11, as Sinlaku approached the islands, Mariana departed Saipan with six crewmembers aboard. She deviated from her usual itinerary, heading north - away from the path of the storm. Over the next few days, Mariana loitered on a circular loop to the east of the island, then resumed her northward track in the early hours of Wednesday morning. 

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Mariana was under way at a position about 140 miles to the northwest of Saipan on Wednesday when her starboard engine failed, according to the Coast Guard. The crew called in the casualty, and Joint Rescue Coordination Center Honolulu took over management of the response. The JRCC set up an hourly communications schedule with the vessel and checked in regularly. All personnel on board were in good health. 

On Wednesday evening, the Coast Guard lost communications with the Mariana and was not able to reestablish contact. The vessel's AIS signal was last received at about 1400 hours local time that afternoon, according to data provided by Pole Star Global, at a position of roughly 17° 25' N / 145° 08' E.

The JRCC dispatched an HC-130J search plane from Honolulu to look for the Mariana on Thursday, but winds in the area were too heavy, and the aircrew was forced to return to Guam. 

Weather conditions in the region were rough due to Super Typhoon Sinlaku, which roared through the Northern Marianas Islands midweek. High wind conditions affecting Saipan and Tinian on Tuesday and Wednesday, and the storm caused damage and widespread power outages on shore. Typhoon-force winds extended out to about 250 nautical miles from the center of the storm. Sinlaku is now moving off to the northeast, but a small craft advisory remains in effect near Saipan, with winds still blowing in the range of 25 knots.

Early Saturday, the Coast Guard conducted another aerial search pattern based on Mariana's last known position. The HC-130 Hercules aircrew spotted a capsized vessel's hull at a position about 34 nautical miles northeast of Pagan, approximately 100 nautical miles from Mariana's last known position and about 200 nautical miles north of Saipan. The Coast Guard is working to identify the sighting, and multiple aircrews - including one from Japan - will be flying further search missions over the weekend.  

Metal detectorist finds Viking Age gold coin that might upend history

A metal detectorist in England discovered a ninth century gold coin pendant depicting Saint John the Baptist, a Christian saint, in an area previously conquered by pagan Vikings.

Sarah Durn
Wed, April 8, 2026 
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One side of the coin shows the profile of a bearded man with the Latin for John and the other has part of a Latin inscription translating as baptist and evangelist.

Less than a 30 minute drive from the University of Cambridge, a metal detectorist followed beeps to a remarkable treasure: a ninth century gold coin pendant.

Now finding long-lost coins in the English countryside isn’t exactly unheard of. In 2025, another metal detectorist discovered a gold coin dating back to the Iron Age in East Yorkshire. Before that, a Viking silver cache was discovered in North Yorkshire.

But this newly discovered gold coin isn’t like the others. This coin might just rewrite history, at least a little bit.

What makes this coin a bit of a head scratcher is what it depicts: a bearded profile of Saint John the Baptist. Thanks to a Latin inscription, experts have no doubts the coin shows the Christian saint. But what experts don’t yet understand is why the Vikings, who had conquered the English kingdom of East Anglia (where the coin was found) and who weren’t Christians, minted or wore a coin with a Christian saint on it. Why would pagans want a coin with a Christian on it?


Limestone relief of John the Baptist from Zakynthos, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Greece. Image: Public Domain

In an interview with BBC, numismatics expert Simon Coupland compared the coin to “a child trying to fit a hexagonal object into a square hole.” The coin just doesn’t fit into history the way it should, which suggests we may have some of the history wrong.

Maybe pagan Vikings liked wearing pendants showing Christian saints as a way to assimilate into East Anglia’s largely Christian population? Or maybe a Christian East Anglian wore the pendant? Or maybe a Christian Viking wore the pendant, even though most historians believed the invading Danes were pagan, not Christian?

And just like that, one small gold coin can upend history—rewriting England’s cultural landscape during the island’s perilous ninth century.


Archaeologists Discovered a Legendary Ancient Temple Hiding in Plain Sight

Elizabeth Rayne
Wed, April 8, 2026 

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Archaeologists Found a Legendary Ancient Temple

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Elagabal was a solar deity in ancient Syria who was also worshipped by a Roman emperor and high priest who named himself Elagabalus in honor of the god.

The Temple of the Sun, built in honor of Elagabal, was the religious epicenter of Syria at the time, but after the arrival of Christianity and then Islam, it seemed to have disappeared.

A Greek inscription found on one of the columns of the Great Mosque suggests that it might have been built over the temple or even had elements of the temple integrated.

During the third century, when the Severan dynasty of Rome ruled Syria, a grand temple dedicated to the sun god Elagabal rose in the city of Emesa. Then it vanished.

The cult of Elagabal was known as Sol Invictus or the Invincible Sun. While there was no statue ever made in his image, he was represented by a sacred black meteorite that had fallen from the heavens, which was paraded among revelers in lavish midsummer processions. After the sudden assassination of Roman emperor Caracalla in the year 217 C.E., a teenage priest of Elagabal known as Sextus Varius Avitus Bassianus (who bore an uncanny resemblance to Caracalla and may or may not have been his illegitimate son) ascended to the throne. He chose Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus as his imperial name, but his dedication to the solar deity soon earned him the title he would be recognized by long after his death—Elagabalus.

Remains of the temple where Elagabalus worshipped long eluded archaeologists. Scholars believe the temple was converted into a Christian church after the rise of Christianity, and then into a mosque after the Islamic conquest, meaning its remains may lie beneath the landmark Great Mosque of al-Nuri, which still stands in Homs (ancient Emesa). And recently, during restoration work on the mosque, something unusual surfaced.

At the base of one of its columns was an ancient Greek inscription, now thought to have possibly been left over from the pagan temple whose heart was once a conical meteorite. Greeks had been in Syria since the 7th century B.C.E. While the Greek presence was at its height during the Hellenistic period and the Seleucid Empire, the language persisted long afterward. Archaeologist and historian Maamoun Saleh Abdulkarim of the University of Sharjah analyzed and translated the inscription, which he described as epic in its heroic, militaristic tone.

“He soars in the sky to crush the warring barbarians,” it reads, according to a study recently published in the journal Shedet. “He comes with a screaming voice, piercing the air. He smashes shields with his sword, tearing the enemy into pieces. He instantly transforms into a tiger, facing the foe. From the top of the hill, you hear his roar as he strikes with strength and ferocity. His royal power is derived from the god of war during the day.”

This isn’t the only reference to Elagabalus, whose adopted name derived from the Aramaic Ilaha Gabal, or “God of the mountain.” Another inscription discovered on a different side of the same column read, “The king, the round image of the universe, conquered all peoples and obtained everything through the skillful driving of a chariot.” It seems both inscriptions were meant to deify Elagabalus.

Worship of Elagabal was centered in Syria, but it spread beyond the Levant and eventually reached Rome. Historian Abdulhadi Al-Najjar was the first to attempt a translation of the recently discovered inscription. Despite grammatical errors in the Greek—common in Aramaic-speaking Syria during the Roman period—he determined that it described a warrior king so fierce he was likened to storm winds and a great predatory cat. The young emperor was in fact compared to a tiger, so his reading was close.

Both Greek inscriptions strengthen the theory that whatever is left of the legendary Temple of the Sun may lie beneath the Great Mosque. The inscriptions were not analyzed earlier because of turmoil in Syria, but now they’re offering insights into the cult of Elagabal, whom Elagabalus raised above the entire Roman pantheon after he became emperor. Roman religious identity was primarily based on paganism. As Christianity began to seep into Syria, the transition between religions is thought to have been gradual, with pagan rites repurposed to be accepted into Christian traditions. It was previously debated whether the Temple of the Sun was hidden beneath or even within the Great Mosque, or if it was buried on a mound beneath the ruins of the Islamic Citadel of Homs.

Stephen Miller and the Passover Message

Robert Koehler

 April 2, 2026

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Stephen Miller, President Donald J. Trump’s repellent senior advisor, deputy chief of staff, and director of the interagency Homeland Security Council, posted on social media two months ago:

“Plenty of countries in history have experimented with importing a foreign labor class. The West is the first and only civilization to import a foreign labor class that is granted full political rights, including welfare & the right to vote. All visas are a bridge to citizenship. In America, for generations now, the policy has been that anyone who would economically benefit from moving to the US can do so, exercise the franchise in the US and their children, the moment they are born, will be full American citizens with all the rights and benefits therein.”

Miller called for a “labor class” excluded from citizenship and a voice in government. “Democrats just flatly reject any concept of nationhood that has ever existed in human history,” he said.

Miller was presumably exposed annually from an early age to the Passover story from the biblical Book of Exodus, ritualized according to the textual telling in the Haggadah every year at this time around the seder table. Here we learn that the Jewish people were enslaved in Egypt for 400 years and had none of the rights accorded the non-Jewish members of that society – such as they might have been living under the pharaonic god-kings. They were, you know, a “labor class” without rights.

The lesson commonly drawn from the story since ancient times is that slavery – having a designated labor class with no capacity to influence the conditions of servitude – is, you know, really abhorrently bad. This has engendered an ethic of inclusivity, an embracing of the other, that has been a core value of Jewish culture.

Let’s revisit the stirring admonition from Leviticus 19:34: “But the stranger who dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”

This is resoundingly rejected by Miller, an Ashkenazi Jew whose family escaped Russian pogroms and the Holocaust. His forbearers along with millions of diaspora Jews arrived on our shores in the late 19th and early 20th century fleeing oppression born of bigoted exclusion by the dominant societies of the countries where they had been living and here aspiring to social and political inclusivity. They slaved away in sweatshops in this country while living in some of the most appalling conditions of poverty in the world, struggling for full participation in a pluralistic society in a nation where they would be full members.

Now that he has benefitted from the activism of his forbearers and attained residency in the inner sanctum of the citadel of power he is dedicated to ensuring that others, particularly people of color, cannot be welcomed into the same privileged circle of full citizenship as he, essentially supporting the Egyptian side of that ancient conflict.

Further revealing his deeply odious philosophy, in January, Miller told Jake Tapper on CNN that:

“We live in a world in which you can talk all you want about international niceties and everything else, but we live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power … These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

The only iron in this discussion is between Miller’s ears.

His nearly unimaginable moral monstrousness exhibits an arresting consistency. If it is righteous for any stronger person to brutalize a weaker person, then one must be always vigilant, in essence perpetually paranoid, because assailants may be lurking anywhere and there is no respite, no protection, that a humane society or government can, or what is more, ought to even aspire to provide.

There are other worlds, like mystical nesting vessels, co-existing right here in the same space and time as the one Miller proclaims we live in, that are invisible to him and his supporters due to stunted and distorted dimensions of human consciousness. The world of most of the folks I hang out with features awareness of our mutuality as fellow beings sharing a fragile planetary biosphere where, in the poignant words of the poet Auden written at the outset of the second world war, “we must love another or die.” I encourage anyone who has not read his poem September 1, 1939 in a long time to revisit it now.

As the late Buddhist monk and revered teacher Thich Nhat Hanh illuminates:

“There is a tendency to be individualistic in us, a seed of egoism, but that isn’t all that is in us. There is the other seed, the seed of togetherness, the desire to help and be kind to others. If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.”

Which seed are you watering?

Robert Koehler is a Chicago award-winning journalist and editor.

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 https://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2007/04/passover-song.html

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Stumbling Along in Hitler’s Footsteps

Dave Lindorff

 April 2, 2026

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World War II, at least in Europe, can be blamed on a single man — a dictator who gained absolute power because of the fecklessness of democratically elected politicians in his country. Afraid to challenge a politician popular with much of their lumpen proletarian base, they hoped to be rid if him by making him head of the representative body that was supposed to control him. They even granted him unusual emergency powers, in hopes that he’d mess up and be destroyed politically.

They gave this power to a man who had a thuggish cult-like following and who had earlier been jailed for organizing a failed putsch that was intended to topple the government and put them and their leader in power, The violent coup attempt failed, with some putschists and a few police killed. Their leader, who fled and hid out for two days was arrested. Tried and convicted of treason, he remained popular among his followers, and only served 9 months of his five-year sentence before being released.

Had Adolph Hitler, whose popularity was owed to his scapegoating the blame for Germany’s economic woes onto Jews, Communists, Socialists and European countries, been kept in jail to serve his full sentence, and had he been properly barred from running for national office because of his record of treason and fomenting revolution, he might  never have been able order the annexation of Austria, the takeover by force  of the German-speaking “Sudetenland” region of Czechoslovakia, or the invasion of Poland. That last decision set the war in Europe in motion because of mutual assistance pacts that obligated France and Britain to come to Poland’s defense,  Thus began the war that ultimately led to the destruction of most of Europe and much of Asia and to the deaths of over 60 million people, most of them civilians, in what remains most terrible and bloody conflict in human history.

If this story sounds oddly—and disturbingly—familiar, it should, for it is being repeated before our eyes right now in the United States of America and the Middle East. In this version, a more porcine and less articulate, but at least as narcissistic and psychopathic a man, Donald Trump, was returned to the presidency in 2024 by the slimmest of pluralities and, despite his having four years earlier attempted to foment a coup to overturn the election of his Democratic rival, Joe Biden.

Once his oath of office vowing to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States had been sworn to, he took advantage of a July 2024 ruling by a stacked right-wing Supreme Court  majority. That ruling, Trump v. United States granted all presidents absolute immunity from prosecution for any of their “presidential acts,” and pardoned all the Make America Great Again (MAGA) cultist insurrectionists, who four years earlier had, upon his orders, stormed Congress, hoping to prevent Congressional  certification of the 2020 election that Trump had just lost. Subsequent to that, Republicans, with control of both houses of Congress, but still nearly all afraid of this modern-day “Hitler’s” cult followers’ ability to deny them renomination as candidates in their next re-election bids, acted much like like the cowards in the Bundestag (German parliament) in 1933: they granted Trump the powers of an absolute monarch, unconstrained by Constitution, courts or even moral qualms.

Trump’s MAGA cult is kept stoked by his endless fear-mongering about a nonexistent “tidal wave” of immigrants of color —“murderers and rapists” that he claims are “diluting the blood” of “real” (meaning White) Americans.

It’s nonsense, but the hate-spewing tactic works just as well in 2026 on the down-trodden MAGA working class-whites in the US looking for some group to blame for their failure to earn a decent living, as it worked 1933 for Hitler on the downtrodden German masses in the depths of the Great Depression years of the 1930s.

At this point, with the  president claiming, without any objection from his party, which controls both houses of Congress, that he doesn’t need permission from Congress or the UN Security Council, he has launched an all-out war of choice on Iran, a country that poses no risk to the US, half a world away. It’s a war a large majority of Americans oppose, yet a sycophant Congress won’t even debate a War Powers Resolution that could bring it to a halt.

Like Hitler, Trump, who is known to have long admired the impetuous Nazi Führer,  is taking his own council in his war decisions, allowing genocidal Israel to do much of the bombing with its now honed and practiced lack of concern about mass casualties of civilians.  And like Israel, he has adopted the idiotic policy of murdering the enemy’s leaders—a practice called “decapitation.” It’s a short-sighted tactic long opposed by military leaders  and outlawed in the Geneva Accords because, as Trump is discovering, doing so makes it difficult if not impossible to negotiate an end to the fighting.

HItler basically lost his war before he started it, by failing to first plan on how he would obtain the massive amounts of oil needed to fuel his huge war machine — something he never managed to do successfully. Similarly Trump failed to realize how easy it would be even for a heavily bombed Iran to shut down shipping through the narrow Strait of Hormuz, cutting off 20% of the entire world’s oil supply and creating a massive global and domestic US economic, diplomatic  and political crisis.

Hitler, whose military experience was limited to his having been a private and a corporal during WWI was also overconfident in the power of his modernized military and his Aryan soldiers, and dismissive of his generals. He didn’t believe the Soviets, with their Slavik peasant army, could resist and defeat this massive Wehrmacht. He likewise assumed wrongly that he could conquer Britain quickly, either through mass bombing or a cross-Channel invasion. Trump, who had no military experience having dodged the Vietnam-era draft by claiming to have “bone spurs” on his feet, has similarly miscalculated how hard Iranians, faced with an existential threat to their nation, would rally to resist the US onslaught.

Like Hitler, Trump thinks he knows everything, and he clearly doesn’t.

Germany before the war had in its excellent universities some of the top physicists, chemists, engineers and mathematicians in the world. Some of them, like scientists in the US, Britain and eventually the USSR, were warning that there was a way to produce a super bomb based upon releasing the energy found inside the nucleus of the uranium atom. In the US, Britain and the Soviet Union, these warnings led to secret crash programs to develop an atomic bomb—ironically out of a fear the Nazis would get an atomic bomb first. But Hitler blew off his scientists’ dire warnings, dismissing the idea of such a weapon, as well as the theory of quantum mechanics that underlay it, as “Jewish science.” He refused to provide the funding for such a costly “crackpot” idea..

In a similar manner, the smug know-it-all current US Commander-in-Chief, who has bragged of having “The highest IQ of any president in history,” ignored expert advice from the State Department, the Pentagon and intelligence people that Iran would not be a pushover like Venezuela or ISIS in Syria. An ancient civilization with a unified language and national pride as well as an educated population, Iran has showed it will resist, and has the means to do so, proving this with its precision strikes on US bases across the Middle East, and with little evident public protest from the population being bombed.

We are at this moment being misled in the US by a man whom Rex Tillerson, the corporate CEO who served as Secretary of State for the first two years of Trump’s first term,  once inappropriately but aptly  labeled, “a moron.”

We can only hope that Trump’s blundering into a war the US cannot win, will not end up killing as many innocent people as Hitler did with his World War II blunder of invading Poland and later the USSR. And we can only hope that this biggest disaster of his political misadventure in The Middle East will drive  him out of office and end a most shameful chapter in US history — one that hopefully will also school Americans about the danger of supporting grandiose charlatans to rule as as kings.

There were good reasons American farmers craftspeople and others from all walks of life in the colonies took up arms against the most powerful military in the 18th century world: to throw off the yoke of King George’s tyranny,

This article by Dave Lindorff appeared originally in ThisCantBeHappening! on its new Substack platform at https://thiscantbehappening.substack.com/. Please check out the new site and consider signing up for a cut-rate subscription that will be available until the end of the month.