Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump notoriously said “I think Islam hates us,” and slapped a Muslim visa ban on a number of countries, which he later expanded. The ban cut families off from loved ones in Yemen, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria. Joe Biden pledged to end the ban on “Day one” of his presidency. […]
Archives for November 2020
To what extent did the spycops target Palestine solidarity groups?
( Middle East Monitor) – This week the Undercover Policing Inquiry [in Britain] finally got underway, albeit in an unusual, coronavirus-restricted virtual fashion. There has been a delay of more than five years since it was first formally announced by then Home Secretary Theresa May. The inquiry is investigating the deployment of undercover police officers […]
Has Donald Trump had his Joe McCarthy moment?
By Chris Lamb | – When CBS, NBC and ABC cut away from President Donald Trump’s news conference at the White House on the evening of Nov. 5, they took pains to explain why they were shutting off the nation’s commander-in-chief. It was a moment that for me, as a journalism historian, carried echoes of […]
In this Election, make no Mistake: White Evangelicals Lost, as “Nones” and Religious Liberals saved the Day
Charleston , W. V. (Special to Informed Comment) – Donald Trump taught America a great lesson. He showed that this nation has a huge number of racist, sexist, jingoist, gay-hating, Muslim-hating, Hispanic-hating bigots – those Hillary Clinton called a “basket of deplorables.” Trump attracted them by millions through his endless attacks on blacks and other […]
Trump’s Falsehoods about Election Fraud give Aid and Comfort to Russia, ISIL Extremists
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s meltdown on Thursday evening in which he alleged a vast Democratic conspiracy to stuff ballot boxes and steal an election he believed himself to have won, along with the gun-toting, menacing MAGA crowds gathering outside vote-counting facilities, have embarrassed America before the world. Worse, they have given hope to […]
Roll up your Sleeves: It will take more than an Election to Restore American Democracy
The Four-Year Rule?
Greek Island going completely Green with Electric Vehicles, with Help of Volkswagen
By Charlotte Nijhuis | – ( Clean Energy Wire) – Volkswagen (VW) and the Greek government are planning a pilot project to introduce fully electric mobility on an island in the southeastern Aegean Sea, business daily Handelsblatt reports. In the next two years, all cars, trucks, motorcycles and buses on the island of Astypalea are […]
If President Biden is Smart, He’ll End America’s Forever Wars and Pour the Money into Jobs at Home
( 48hills.org) – I’m pissed. I’m pissed at Donald Trump for trying to shut down the vote count early and at Republicans seeking to steal the election using conservative-appointed federal judges. Will Biden end unpopular foreign wars? But I’m also mad at Joe Biden and the Democratic Party big shots who got Biden elected but […]
Bonnie Prince Donnie: Trump thinks he Won, joining Wacky Pretenders to the Throne in History
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump made an unhinged appearance on television Thursday evening, in which he incorrectly asserted that he had won Pennsylvania and Michigan but had had the election stolen from him by those pesky vote counters that insisted on continuing to count votes. The convoluted and insane conspiracy theories he vomited up […]