Isolationist Trump threatens to retake Panama Canal

President-elect Donald Trump threatened on Saturday that the U.S. would reassume control of the Panama Canal if it felt that Panama wasn’t honoring the terms of a 1977 treaty regarding the waterway’s legal status.

Trump threatens to retake Panama Canal

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[2023] Trump Organization Found Guilty in Tax Fraud Scheme

[2019] Trump Companies Accused of Tax Evasion in Panama

[2011] Panama to Trump: You’re fired!

[2010] Donald Trump Goes on an Adventure in Panama (initially financed by Bear Sterns)

“Operation Just Cause”:

Panama Ransacked in 1989

George H.W. Bush’s 1989 Invasion of Panama Set the Stage for U.S. Wars to Come

The Latest Digital Token Scheme from Hell: New York Fed Teams Up with Citigroup and Sullivan & Cromwell

Just two business days after the crypto exchange FTX filed for bankruptcy and headlines swirled around the world suggesting it had used its crypto token to perpetuate a massive fraud reminiscent of Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, the New York Fed thought this would be an ideal time to announce it was launching a digital token pilot with the serial fraudster, Citigroup. (See here for the unintelligible, jargonized version from the New York Fed; here for the decrypted translation from CoinDesk; and here for a sampling of Citigroup’s rap sheet.)

The Latest Digital Token Scheme from Hell: New York Fed Teams Up with Citigroup and Sullivan & Cromwell