Change is coming to Washington, especially for Republicans. It has been clear for some time that the old ways are not serving the people’s interests. The first sign was the so-called “Tea Party” revolution in 2010. At the time, it was a reaction to President…
Read More Weller: Mitch McConnell Calls It Quits Completing Overhaul Of GOP Leadership
Today on The Country with Justin Weller, we discuss the latest in American space exploration, the Alabama IVF controversy, the firings at CBSNews, questionable court rulings, the new Russia panic, and the state of #judges as legislators. Justin Weller is the Founder and Editor of The Country,…
Read More The Country: Space, IVF, CBS News, Russia Panic, And Judges
A bombshell report from the New York Times yesterday received little fanfare in major media circles. The report centers on the United States Central Intelligence Agency’s clandestine operations in Eastern Ukraine, which began soon after the 2014 coup that begat open hostilities between the Russian…
Read More Weller: $60B More For Ukraine? Take It From The CIA & State Department Budgets
Judicial rulings have become an increasing part of the lives of common Americans. Look no further than abortion law, which now swings on the makeup of the Supreme Court, rather than the makeup of our legislative bodies and elected officials. The recent Alabama IVF case…
Read More Weller: Should Judges Be The Arbiters Of Our Politics?
It is an exciting time to be a space enthusiast. After the amazing highs of the space race of the 1960s and moon landings into the early 1970s, the exploration of space has been a sad afterthought in the American conversation. The Space Shuttle was…
Read More Weller: Lunar Landings, Eggs Are People, And The Latest Russian Slenderman
Today on The Country with Justin Weller, we discuss the latest developments regarding the death of Alexei Navalny and the continued moral panic about Russia. We also talk about Julian Assange and his final battle to avoid extradition in a London court this week, term…
Read More Saving Democracy Twice, Assange, Navalny And The Russia Panic
Mr. Hines was one of those fantastic, immersive high school teachers that you never forget. He taught History in the IB program at Richard Montgomery High School in Rockville, MD. He was a Civil War reenactor and when he covered that war, he came to…
Read More Weller: Saving Democracy, Two Ways
As Alexei Navalny’s death was reported last week, an effort to tie the tragedy directly to US politics, Donald Trump, House Republicans, and the worthless foreign aid bill stalled in the House soon followed. The never-ending Russian moral panic went into such a frenzy that a CNN…
Read More Weller: Navalny And The Russian Moral Panic
NATO will celebrate its 75th year in existence on April 4th this year. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed after World War II in Washington, DC as a counterbalance to the threat posed in Europe by the Soviet Union and her allies. The Russian communist…
Read More Frailty, Thy Name Is NATO