The following article by Jim Hightower was posted on the Creators.com website November 15, 2017:
“We’ve had a great relationship,” exulted a giddy Donald Trump, following his two-day schmoozefest in Manila with the thuggish president of the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte.
Duterte, a self-styled “toughie” who boasts of personally killing many people and who likes to compare himself to Satan, has been on a murderous rampage since his election last year. In the name of eliminating drugs, he has unleashed a massive military assault across the country, not merely targeting dealers, but also anyone using drugs. His onslaught against his own people is a human rights atrocity, with untold thousands essentially being executed in what are antiseptically termed “extrajudicial killings” — ie, illegal, unjustified… murderous. Continue reading “Donald Trump’s Strange Bro-mances with Duterte and Putin”