By Dina El-Rifai | (Otherwords.org) | – – I’m a Muslim woman and a social justice advocate. I’m terrified, heartbroken, and outraged by Donald Trump’s “Muslim ban.” As I watched administrative chaos and rapidly organized protests unfold at airports all over America, I was overwhelmed with messages from friends fearing they’d never be able to […]
Speaker of British House of Commons: Trump not Welcome Here
TeleSur | – – “An address by a foreign leader to both houses of parliament is not an automatic right; it is an earned honor,” Bercow concluded. The speaker of the United Kingdom’s lower house of parliament said Monday he would block any plans for U.S. President Donald Trump to address parliament during a state […]
Will Trump use the Next ISIL attack to sweep away our Liberties?
By Allison Beth Hodgkins | (Informed Comment) | – – You have to hand to the civil society groups pushing back on the Trump administration’s recent executive orders banning the entry of Syrian refugees and all other types of visa holders from Syria, Iran and five other majority Muslim countries in the Middle East and […]
Why Trump’s Immigration Order is a Tragedy for Everyone, Except Trump
By Barbara Elias | (Informed Comment) | – – For the moment, federal courts have interrupted the president’s immigration order. Judge Robart remarked in his Temporary Restraining Order that there is “no support” for the assertion that banning Syrian refugees and individuals from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen is likely to protect […]
Trump’s Coming “Islamo-China” War . . . or, Whatever
By Ira Chernus | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – What kind of national security policy will the Trump administration pursue globally? On this issue, as on so many others, the incoming president has offered enough contradictory clues, tweets, and comments that the only definitive answer right now is: Who knows? During his presidential campaign […]
SNL: Bannon puts Trump up to Disastrous Calls to World Leaders
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Cooking the Planet: GOP Congress quietly allows Methane Emissions on Public Land
By Andrea Germanos, staff writer | Commondreams.org | – – Fossil fuel industry hits paydirt as congress approves measure that gives “away a taxpayer-owned resource for free” The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday voted to repeal a rule curbing methane emissions on public lands, delivering a win, say environmental groups, to big oil and […]
When Germany thinks someone is Killing Democracy . . .
TeleSur | – – The illustrator is a Cuban immigrant who put his views on Trump into a piece of art that is now on the cover of one of the world’s leading magazines. The influential German news magazine Der Spiegel has released its Feb. 4 cover featuring a cartoon image of Donald Trump holding […]
Militia Feuding, Insecurity in East Mosul hold up Advance on ISIL
Mustafa Habib | ( Niqash.org ) | – – The biggest problem in eastern Mosul, post-extremists, is security. The Iraqi army needs to move on, to fight in western Mosul, but they cannot leave the eastern city to a variety of militias, fighting among themselves. The praise for the hard fighting that Iraq’s pro-government forces […]
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