Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Seven Republicans joined the Democrats in the Senate in voting for resolutions that 1) assigned the blame for the murder of the dissident Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi to Saudi crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman and 2) invoked the War Powers Act of 1973 in calling for […]
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If Cohen and Pecker are Guilty of Campaign Finance Felonies, isn’t Trump?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The special counsel’s investigation into hush money Trump paid to a Playboy model and a porn star turns out so far to be much more significant than Robert Mueller’s investigation of Trump’s collusion with Russia in 2016. The law on campaign finance violations, while not air tight, is far clearer […]
Is Saudi Crown Prince using Kushner to Manipulate Trump?
Rising up with Sonali featured an interview with me on “Saudi Crown Prince Might Be Manipulating Trump Through Kushner” by Sonali Kolhatkar. Watch @jricole explain how “Saudi Crown Prince Might Be Manipulating Trump Through Kushner?” by @RUWithSonali on #Vimeo https://t.co/DgfKGfPJV1 — Rising Up W/ Sonali (@RUWithSonali) December 12, 2018
The Rightwing ‘American Spectator’ doesn’t Want you to read my ‘Muhammad: Prophet of Peace ‘
The good news is that The American Spectator reviewed my new book about the beginnings of Islam and the centrality to it of peace, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires. The bad news is that Andrew Harrod, the reviewer, appears not actually to have read the book. He just attended a talk […]
Top 6 Reasons Dems shouldn’t Allocate a single Cent for Trump’s Idiotic Wall
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s televised badgering of Sen. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi was made for cable television, which predictably looped it over and over again on Tuesday and assembled “panels” of “experts” solemnly to parse Trump’s insane meanderings, Schumer’s hamming it up for the cameras, and Pelosi’s pitifully forlorn call for a […]
Trump’s App’t of Nauert at U.N. is a National Security Threat to the U.S.
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump is making Heather Nauert his ambassador to the United Nations, the most empty-headed such appointment since W. Bush tried to shoehorn the crazed John Bolton into that position. In recognition that Nauert is a lightweight, Trump is demoting UN ambassador from being a cabinet-level position. This means Nauert won’t […]
Is Kushner Covering for Bin Salman Murder Charge so Israel can Usurp Palestinian West Bank?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The New York Times (h/t Mother Jones) has reported from one Saudi source and several sources in US intelligence that Jared Kushner has been corresponding over Whatsapp with Saudi crown prince and world-renowned axe murderer, Mohammed Bin Salman. Kushner, the Times reporting concludes has “offered the crown prince advice about […]
Top 8 Ways John Kelly was an Embarrassment as WH Chief of Staff
Revised By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump announced Saturday that his chief of staff, John Kelly, will leave at the end of the month. It has been reported that the two men are not speaking. Kelly was often seen as a force for stability in the Trump administration, but as I […]
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