By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – It was bloody and brutal, a true generational struggle, but give them credit. In the end, they won when so many lost. James Comey was axed. Sean Spicer went down in a heap of ashes. Anthony Scaramucci crashed and burned instantaneously. Reince Priebus hung on for […]
“If he only had a Heart”: Trump as empty Kettle (Cartoon)
Paul Jamiol | Jamiol’s World Cartoons | – – Via Jamiol’s World Editorial Cartoons
Do Muslim Americans need a Civil Rights Movement?
By Emily Cury | (The Conversation) | – – The past year has been a difficult one for American Muslims. According to a July 2017 Pew survey, 48 percent of Muslims report experiencing at least one incident of discrimination in the past 12 months. The Council on American-Islamic Relations and other Muslim advocacy organizations found […]
Politics Above Law: How Trump channels Far Right icon Carl Schmitt without Knowing It
By Andrew Kolin | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s various public statements have made clear that he is not an avid reader. He has remarked that he does not have time to read, stating, “I never have. I’m always busy doing a lot. Now I’m more busy, I guess, than ever before.” […]
Gaza: Over 1 million children in ‘unlivable’ circumstances
By Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | (Informed Comment) | – – Over a million children in Gaza are living in impoverished circumstances due to electricity shortages, causing problems for public health and education, warned Save the Children on Tuesday. The international NGO says Israel’s ongoing land, air and sea blockade of Gaza, which has been in place […]
Will Trump Kill the Dream for These Immigrants?
By Marcelo Rochabrun | (ProPublica) | – – With the president reportedly at the point of canceling DACA, some of its 800,000 beneficiaries describe what they gained — and now fear losing — from the program. Marco Guajardo starts a new job today that, he said, will provide him with health insurance for the first […]
How Trump’s pardon of Arpaio changed America
By Ebony Slaughter-Johnson | (Otherwords.org) | – – The president called a man who freely violated people’s constitutional rights a “patriot.” What does that make his victims? During a speech to a group of police officers in July, President Trump returned to one of his favorite themes of the campaign season: violence. “Please don’t be […]
Syria’s Heritage, and the World’s, that the War Destroyed–From Palmyra to Castles
Written by Alreem Kamal | ( GlobalVoices.org) | – – Syria's story is one that has been weaved through families from one millennium to the next. Subjugated as a Roman province under the command of Pompey the Great in 64 BC, and brought under Ottoman rule 16 centuries later by Sultan Selim I in 1516, […]
Media Ignore Harvey’s Devastation of Working Class Communities
By Jake Johnson, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org) | – – “Hurricanes don’t care if you’re rich, poor, white, or black—but that doesn’t mean that every person is equally vulnerable to a storm.” People wait to be rescued from their flooded homes after the area was inundated with flooding from Hurricane Harvey on August 28, […]
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