Edward Snowden blew the whistle on illegal mass surveillance by US authorities of their own population – and had to flee into permanent exile.

Julian Assange published details of the US military's war crimes – and spent years locked up in a high-security jail, denied his most basic rights.

Francesca Albanese has documented US government and corporate complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza – and now, thanks to US sanctions, cannot have a bank account. As she explains here, anyone who deals with her faces up to 20 years in a US jail.

Notice a pattern? The US is the ultimate rogue state, destroying anyone who tries to hold it to account. It is utterly lawless. Its methods are those of the gangster, ruling a world where there are no police who can bring it to heel.

Trump is different only in that he no longer bothers to hide the fact.