By Nomi Prins | ( Tomdispatch.com | – – Irony isn’t a concept with which President Donald J. Trump is familiar. In his Inaugural Address, having nominated the wealthiest cabinet in American history, he proclaimed, “For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have […]
This time Dr. Strangelove is President: On the Political Psychology of Donald Trump
By Daniel Brumberg | (Informed Comment) | – – Is Donald Trump rational? Is he sane? Often posed before his election, this question is now a matter of urgent debate among commentators, pundits and political leaders—even from his own party. As Trump upends US immigration policy, and as his chief White House strategist projects the […]
Trump renders Green Cards for 250,000 Iraqis and Iranians Worthless
By Marcelo Rochabrun | ProPublica | – – Update: A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security told Reuters on Saturday morning that the President’s executive order will, in fact, stop green card holders from seven countries from returning to the United States if they travel abroad. “It will bar green card holders,” the spokeswoman […]
Mexico ‘Astonished’ at Israel’s Netanyahu’s Tweet backing Wall
TeleSur | – – Earlier on Saturday, Netanyahu tweeted: “President Trump is right. I built a wall along Israel’s southern border… Great success. Great idea.” Mexico’s government on Saturday rebuked Israel for a tweet by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that applauded U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to build a border wall with Mexico to keep […]
Persecution and the threat to the refugee system
By Brad K. Blitz | (OpenDemocracy.net) | – – We need to accept that for millions of refugees persecution is the principal reason for flight today as it was before, during and after the Holocaust. Following the passage of controversial proposals on the EURODAC database of asylum applicants’ and refugees’ fingerprints,Greens/EFA MEPs protest the erosion […]
New report reveals top Israeli official living in illegal colonial settlement
IMEMC News | – – An Israeli Finance Minister, who is in charge of implementing a law to demolish Palestinian homes in the West Bank, is himself living in an unlicensed building in an illegal colonial settlement on Occupied Palestinian land – and he is just one of many Israeli officials living in illegal settlements, […]
Trump sees Press as Public Enemy No. 1 – Reporters w/out Borders
By IPS News Desk | – – ROME (IPS) – “Alarmed” by the new administration’s “repeated attacks on the media and blatant disregard for facts in the first three days of Donald Trump’s presidency,” Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Trump and his team “to stop undermining the First Amendment and start defending it.” […]
Trump Is Carpet-Bombing . . . U.S. Foreign Policy
By Phyllis Bennis | ( Foreign Policy in Focus ) | – – Already Trump is super-charging U.S. militarism, gutting diplomacy, and punishing the victims of wars Washington started. Very soon, Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order regarding refugees and entry to the U.S. for a whole swathe of people. In effect, […]
From Ugly American to American Bully
By William J. Astore | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – I came of age during America’s Cold War with the Soviet Union, witnessing its denouement while serving in the U.S. military. In those days, the USSR led the world’s weapons trade, providing arms to the Warsaw Pact (the military alliance it dominated) as well […]
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