What Comes Next in the Long Battle over Keystone XL

Returning to the moon is no longer a state mission, but a market.

Trump is not exactly a legal scholar. If he wanted to dispatch his gunboats here, he wouldn’t need a judicial pretext.

[Trump] disregarded Arab national interests, foremost among them the Palestinian issue and its legitimate, legal aspirations.

So, to succeed in the trough of graft, a politician must have a profusion of scandals, so many of them all at once such that they would eventually overwhelm the system’s capacity to cope.

Another interesting feature is the absence of non-partisan journalists covering this war.

It would be difficult to find another instance of an incumbent leader featuring their own face on a bill in a non-monarchic, democratic country.