2025/02/15

       Commander-in-Chief Trump issues Executive Order 14215, asserting executive control over independent (legislative) Federal agencies.

       NOTE: The only legitimate purpose Trump could have for this usurpation is to terminate their unlawful existence.

       [added 1/26/2026] Thanks to Truthout for this entry.

       The President may do anything the constitution does not say he may not do.

—- misattributed to Theodore Roosevelt

       While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Republican (fascist/socialist) President Trump tweets, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”

       NOTE:

• Megalomaniacs Napoleon and Mussolini were also fond of saying this.
• Although Trump used the word “country” here, the editors believe that he meant to use the word “nation,” in which a central government, with almost limitless power, treats its constituent states as mere enclaves, provinces, or sub-divisions of its greater self; as opposed to “Union,” which is a union of sovereign States under a federal system, with a central government whose powers are strictly limited by a respected Constitution.

       [added 1/26/2026] Thanks to John Whitehead for this entry.

       The Federal court for the southern district of new york hands down Kunstler v. Central Intelligence Agency: judge John G. Koeltl refuses to hear allegations that the CIA spied on Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, while he was under political asylum at the Embassy of Ecuador, in London, England: “The subject matter of this litigation is subject to the state secrets privilege in its entirety.”

       [added 1/26/2026] Thanks to Antiwar.com for this entry.