Washington Loves Guam...TO DEATH!
A senator in Guam wants US statehood. But its struggle for self-determination is a feature, not a bug, of empire.
By all accounts, Pete Hegseth is an absolute monster. During his confirmation hearing to be Trump’s secretary of defense, he displayed a mix of ignorance (eg, “Name a country in ASEAN”—fail), shoddy judgment, a refusal to answer questions honestly, and an undeserved, barely contained rage that reminded of the Brett Kavanaugh hearings.
Amid all this, the…