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Donald Trump
Leaked Audio Exposes Oil & Gas Execs Laughing With Joy Over Cozy Access to Trump Officials

Leaked Audio Exposes Oil & Gas Execs Laughing With Joy Over Cozy Access to Trump Officials

Juan Cole

By Jon Queally, staff writer |- (Commondreams.org) – “It’s really a new world for us and very, very helpful,” said powerful fossil fuel lobby group’s CEO during closed-door meeting A newly-leaked audio recording reveals that oil and gas executives in a private meeting were “giddy” with laughter in the summer of 2017 as they rejoiced […]

Donald Trump
How Trump's Recognition of Israeli Usurpation of Syrian Golan Strengthens Iran, Russia in ME

How Trump’s Recognition of Israeli Usurpation of Syrian Golan Strengthens Iran, Russia in ME

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s call for recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Golan Heights, a part of Syria, is intended to help his and his donors’ ally Binyamin Netanyahu win the Israeli elections. It is another example of his uncanny ability to sabotage his own policies. Not to mention to sabotage any […]

Islamophobia
Islamophobia is no Myth: NZ Mosque attacks show it is is real, deadly and spreading around the world

Islamophobia is no Myth: NZ Mosque attacks show it is is real, deadly and spreading around the world

Juan Cole

It is about time we started to hold the media, and those that peddle far-right hatred

Featured
2020 Dem Presidential Hopefuls Flee Israel lobbies’ AIPAC after MoveOn.org Boycott Call

2020 Dem Presidential Hopefuls Flee Israel lobbies’ AIPAC after MoveOn.org Boycott Call

Juan Cole

Bernie Sanders is “concerned about the platform AIPAC is providing for leaders who have expressed bigotry and oppose a two-state solution.”

Featured
How Bush's War on Iraq Produced Trumpism, Instability, Refugees and Climate Catastrophe

How Bush’s War on Iraq Produced Trumpism, Instability, Refugees and Climate Catastrophe

Juan Cole

This sort of glib rhetoric was to cost the lives of nearly 5,000 American military personnel and the lives of several hundred thousand Iraqis

Colonialism
No, Fox's Katie Pavlich, the US wasn't the First to Abolish Slavery

No, Fox’s Katie Pavlich, the US wasn’t the First to Abolish Slavery

Juan Cole

Fox Cable News’ Katie Pavlich asserted Tuesday, “They keep blaming America for slavery, but the truth is that throughout human history slavery has existed. America came along as the first country to end it within 150 years. And we get no credit for that.” Seriously, how utterly and comprehensively brain dead stupid and ignorant do […]

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No, Mr. Milstein, Reps. Ilhan Omar & Rashida Tlaib are not Muslim Brotherhood and you should be Ashamed

No, Mr. Milstein, Reps. Ilhan Omar & Rashida Tlaib are not Muslim Brotherhood and you should be Ashamed

Juan Cole

This anti-CAIR conspiracy theory is intended to deny the franchise to the 3.5 million Muslim-Americans

Bill of Rights
When it Comes to Actively Defending Religious Minorities, Trump is no George Washington; but he Should Be

When it Comes to Actively Defending Religious Minorities, Trump is no George Washington; but he Should Be

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – If Trump were actually acting as a president, he could and would tamp down the terrifying spread of hatred against Muslims that has resulted in several mass murders at mosques in the English-speaking world in recent years. All he would have to do is come out and say that ordinary […]

Featured
Rupert Murdoch's Fox postpones Pirro, as his Sky Channel is Pulled from NZ Airwaves for airing Shooter's Video

Rupert Murdoch’s Fox postpones Pirro, as his Sky Channel is Pulled from NZ Airwaves for airing Shooter’s Video

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – World-straddling press lord Rupert Murdoch’s media is under pressure in the wake of the massacre of 50 worshipers by a white supremacist terrorist at a Christchurch mosque. Murdoch’s Fox News is known for pushing white nationalist themes and for demonizing Muslims, and his Sky News Australia is not very different. […]

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