Mark Lesseraux

Trump Opens a Big Can of Worms Donald Trump is completely betraying his MAGA base. His base elected him on a nationalist, isolationist platform centered around closed borders, pulling US troops out of foreign nations and stopping the neocons’ forever-wars.…

A Friend Asked Me a Question Yesterday A friend of mine posed a question to me yesterday. They asked: “I know you’re philosophically against war and all, but aren’t you at least rooting for Ukraine to win against Russia?” The…

Preface to a Farewell  Over the course of the last 3 and ½ years, my Pressenza articles have been primarily concerned with two things: 1) shedding a light on the incredibly dangerous, ideologically driven perpetual war-path that the US has…

1) Every Neocon in Washington (both political parties and the upper echelon of the US military are dominated by the war-for-profit Neocon oligarch faction) is drooling with gleeful anticipation. There has been an outbreak of war between Israel and Iran…

The Unspoken Cause The real underlying reason that Donald Trump has been America’s favorite politician for the last 10 years is rarely spoken about. There’s a reason why it’s not mentioned much, but we’ll get to that in a moment.…

Introduction: Reflecting Briefly on Part 1 A considerable portion of part one of this two part article consisted of a synthesis of how and why the last two and 1/2 decades of American foreign policy have been crippling for the…

Introduction: An Optimal Way to Begin Many Americans automatically assume that their preferred political party’s foreign policy aims are substantively congruent with that party’s proclaimed domestic agenda. This simply isn’t the case though, and it’s been one of the primary…

On behalf of myself and the Pressenza staff, I would like to acknowledge the recent passing of Suzanne Gepp. Suzanne was instrumental in developing and doing graphics for two of the first NYC Humanist magazines, both of which were Pressenza…

The New York Times Over the course of the last 25 years, The New York Times has devolved into an arm of the Israel lobby and the now bipartisan neoconservative war economy. In fact, most of their foreign affairs and…

As far as the use of any more sanctions and/or tariffs is concerned, a large red flag was raised when the Biden administration tried to sanction Russia (14 rounds of sanctions) in 2022 – 2024. The sanctions produced a fiasco,…