Arnold Schwarzenegger | Twitter Video | – My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week's attack on the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/blOy35LWJ5 — Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) January 10, 2021 Also on YouTube.
Four Years Later: ‘Welcome to Psychopathocracy,’ the Sequel
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – N.B.: I wrote this essay on January 10, 2017. Four years later, I stand by most of it, and I think its argument has been well substantiated. The one thing I’ve rethought is my conviction that we could fight back against psychopathic policies by appealing to the Congressional majority of […]
Vanilla ISIL: Social Media is forced to Treat Trump and Trumpists Like Terrorists
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Not everyone who mobbed the Capitol on 1/6 was a terrorist, but there were many terrorists among them. Some people came armed, or with ties for taking congressional representatives and senators hostage. Some were desperately looking for Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi in order to assassinate them for, in their […]
50+ Foreign Policy and National Security Experts Call on Biden to Return to Iran Deal
National Iranian American Council. Note to Informed Comment readers: Juan Cole is among the signatories below. To: President Elect Biden and the Biden administration As experts on Iran, international relations and nonproliferation, we write to fully support the incoming Biden administration in its commitment to make a clean break from the Trump Administration’s failed Iran […]
Dear Rats deserting Trump’s Sinking Ship: All those Times you didn’t Resign or Even criticize his Monstrous Deeds
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The rats are deserting Trump’s sinking ship, after he fomented the Great QAnon Capitol Insurrection, with two cabinet secretaries and some other officials having resigned. It is too late. The Insurrection did not tell us something about Trump we did not know. Those now leaving are perhaps attempting to avoid […]
Terrorism and invading the Legislature, in the Middle East and America
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump whipped up far right wing conspiracy theorists and white nationalists on Wednesday, telling them the election had been stolen The implication was that it had been stolen by Black and Brown people in urban areas like Detroit and Philadelphia. Thousands of members of Proud Bois, Boogaloo, QAnon (who believe […]
“The Stone of Help:” Rev. Raphael Warnock ran for the Senate from Ebenezer Baptist Church: What that means to American History
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Rev. Raphael Warnock, the new senator from Georgia, grew up in Savannah. His commitment to the Black Baptist tradition was deepened during his undergraduate years at Morehouse College. He told Vicky Eckenrode of the Savannah Morning News on 24 Oct 2005 of Morehouse, “It has deep Baptist roots so […]
Already a New Boss in Town: Saudis, afraid of Biden, Hurry to End their Blockade on Qatar
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Saudi Arabia announced Monday that it would lift its land and sea blockade against Qatar, and that Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (the UAE) would allow Qatari aircraft to fly through their air space again. Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt announced their boycott on the small peninsula […]
Tragedies, Farces and Trump’s Coup d’état: The History of an Idea
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Amy Gardner at the Washington Post got the scoop. In an hour-long telephone call to Georgia officials, including the the secretary of state, Trump browbeat them and hinted around that he could arrange jail time for them or foment unrest or spoil the January 5 senatorial run-off unless they found […]
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