President contradicted his secretary of defense
The Seychelles Plot: Mueller on the UAE Role in Russian Influence-Peddling with Trump and Kushner
The Mueller report sheds further light on the infamous Seychelles meeting in January, 2017, which appears to have aimed at establishing a back channel for the Trump administration to the circle of Russian President Vladimir Putin, brokered by Mohammed Bin Zayed of the United Arab Emirates. That is, this story is not about pre-election collusion […]
After Mueller: A Majority of Americans believes Trump is Guilty of Obstruction, wants him Impeached
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A new Associated Press – NORC Poll finds that a majority of Americans, 53%, want Congress to go on investigating Trump even after the close of the Mueller investigation. (The raw data for the poll is here.) Since they saw Trump fire Comey after pressuring him to assure the president […]
How Bernie Sanders trounced Fox on Medicare for All, and why a Carbon Tax could help Pay for It
I say, apply the proceeds of a carbon tax to funding medicare for all
On the Universalism of Notre Dame, from Muslim Arches to the Goddess of Reason
It is a world-historical edifice, reflecting the light mysticism of Plato and the pointed arches of Zoroastrian Iran and Abbasid Baghdad
How Classic Anti-Semitic Tropes are being Marshaled against Ilhan Omar and Muslim-Americans
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The attacks on Ilhan Omar, one of the first two Muslim-American women to serve in Congress and the first of Black African heritage who veils, by the Rupert Murdoch press (Fox, New York Post, etc.) and the US Republican Party are frightening for many reasons, but most of all because […]
Why isn’t the Democratic Party Leadership coming to Ilhan Omar’s Defense?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nancy Pelosi’s response to Donald Trump’s tweet lying about Ilhan Omar and maliciously twisting her words to make her seem virtually an al-Qaeda sympathizer was so anodyne that Pelosi didn’t even mention Omar’s name. The leadership of the Democratic Party is not coming to the defense of Rep. Omar because […]
Republicans & Rupert Murdoch Created al-Qaeda when Ilhan Omar’s Somalia upheld Scientific Socialism
As for Somalia, from 1969 to 1990 it was ruled by a secular system of Scientific Socialism and disallowed the Muslim Brotherhood
Netanyahu’s Reelection Further Dooms Millions of Palestinians to Decades of Statelessness, Denial of Basic Rights
I once heard an Israeli historian say that the Israelis had by now done to the Palestinians everything the Nazis did to the Jews by 1939
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