Stephen Colbert | (Video Clip from The Late Show) | – – “In response to Trump’s false claims of a terror attack, Sweden’s Prime Minister asked, ‘What has he been smoking?’ Stephen has a theory.” The Late Show with Stephen Colbert: “Never Fjorget What Happened In Sweden”
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Archives for 2017
CPAC, OK with alt-NeoNazism, drops Milo over Teen Sex Comments
TeleSur | – – Milo Yiannopoulos will not be allowed to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference following the discovery of his comments supporting pedophilia. Breitbart editor and self-described “occasional fellow traveler with the alt-right,” Milo Yiannopoulos, has for some time now been notorious for his sexist, transphobic, racist and far-right views. But it’s […]
Confusion over U.S. Travel Ban Grounding Foreign Correspondents
By Tharanga Yakupitiyage | (Inter Press Service) | – – NEW YORK (IPS) – New restrictions on immigrants and refugees coming to the United States are also posing challenges for foreign correspondents covering news in the United States. Some have had to indefinitely postpone plans to report on conflicts in the Middle East while others […]
Forget the Tweets: The Impact on You of Trump’s Deregulation, Privatization of Everything
By Ali R. Abootalebi | (Informed Comment) | – – Beyond the campaign rhetoric and Twitter controversies over domestic and foreign policies, the question remains what actual policies the Trump administration is cooking up for the American people and the broader global community. Some campaign rhetoric is (will be) abandoned, e.g., one-China policy; Mexico paying […]
Netanyahu rejected offer by Kerry & Arab Leaders of Comprehensive Peace Talks
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Last year this time, Secretary of State John Kerry was trying to put together a huge peace deal between Israel and the Arab world, according to Aron Heller and Matthew Lee of the Associated Press. The proposal built on the 2002 Arab peace plan, which offered […]
Danger as Turkey votes on Presidential System while in State of Emergency
By Arzu Geybullayeva | (Globalvoices.org) | – – On April 16, Turks will head to polls to yay or nay constitutional amendments which have been approved by the 550 seat parliament where the majority of seats (317) belong to the ruling party of Justice and Development (AKP) under the control of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. […]
Trump’s Russia scandals could be about to get much, much worse
Luca Trenta | The Conversation | – – Whatever one thinks of the Trump administration’s policies, it is difficult to ignore that the new president’s tenure has so far been characterised by incompetence and carelessness. And while it’s easy to laugh at daft missteps such as an aide plugging Ivanka Trump’s clothing line in a […]
Eight People Flee U.S. Border Patrol to Seek Asylum in Canada
TeleSur | – – As the U.S. looks to tighten its policies on refugees and illegal immigrants, people seeking refugee status have been pouring over the Canada-U.S. border. Eight asylum-seekers, including four children, barely made it across the Canadian border on Friday as a U.S. border patrol officer tried to stop them and a Reuters […]
Trump invents Sweden Terror Attack, Lies about Immigrant Crime
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump made up another alleged terrorist attack at his rally on Saturday, this one about a figment of his imagination that did not actually take place in Sweden on Friday night. It is clear that Trump and his white supremacist mafia (Steve Bannon et al.) despise […]
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