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Juan Cole

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Trump's Remarks on Kavanaugh 'Con Job' and Top 4 other Policy Lies that should be Disqualifying

Trump’s Remarks on Kavanaugh ‘Con Job’ and Top 4 other Policy Lies that should be Disqualifying

Juan Cole

I plowed through the disturbed ramblings of Trump’s ‘very big brain’ for all the myriads of falsehoods that came out of his mouth Wednesday. Trump poisoned the well of the Kavanaugh hearings by openly doubting the women accusers of his supreme court nominee (before hearing Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony today) and by dismissing the groundswell […]

Donald Trump
The US Media Should Learn from UN Audience, and Treat Trump as a Pathetic Joke

The US Media Should Learn from UN Audience, and Treat Trump as a Pathetic Joke

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The US media, as I predicted, has gone a long way toward normalizing Trump. Despite counts of his over 5,000 ridiculous lies that show a vast increase over time, CNN, MSNBC and other news outlets respectfully report on him as though he really were a president who really did have […]

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US Isolated: Europe's Big 3, plus China & Russia Outmaneuver Trump to keep Iran Deal at UN

US Isolated: Europe’s Big 3, plus China & Russia Outmaneuver Trump to keep Iran Deal at UN

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“determination to protect the freedom of their economic operators to pursue legitimate business with Iran”

Crime
A Fourth Woman has contacted Montgomery County with Kavanaugh Rape Allegations

A Fourth Woman has contacted Montgomery County with Kavanaugh Rape Allegations

Juan Cole

The local newspaper in Montgomery County, Maryland, is reporting that investigators there are aware of a fourth accuser (counting attorney Michael Avenatti’s anonymous one). The Sentinel writes: “Government investigators confirmed Monday they’re aware of a potential second sexual assault complaint in the county against former Georgetown Prep student and Supreme Court nominee Kavanaugh. While investigators […]

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Top 4 Pieces of Sexual Harassment that Brought us to the Kavanaugh Debacle

Top 4 Pieces of Sexual Harassment that Brought us to the Kavanaugh Debacle

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Les Moonves didn’t know if it was good for the country, but Trump was definitely good for CBS Bottom Line

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Iran: Khamenei Blames Saudi Arabia, Trump's US for bloody Terror attack on Ahvaz

Iran: Khamenei Blames Saudi Arabia, Trump’s US for bloody Terror attack on Ahvaz

Juan Cole

The aim was clearly to spread terror among the civilian population.

Donald Trump
How Rosenstein's Firing Could lead to Trumpian Martial Law and Blood in the Streets

How Rosenstein’s Firing Could lead to Trumpian Martial Law and Blood in the Streets

Juan Cole

The New York Times reports that deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein talked about wearing a wire to record Trump’s insane prattering, and spoke of invoking the 25th amendment, which allows the cabinet to remove the president if he is incapacitated. Rosenstein’s office says that the remarks were facetious. They were recorded in memos by former […]

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The GOP is after Kerry for Iran Meetings, but has a Long History of  Covert Foreign Scandals

The GOP is after Kerry for Iran Meetings, but has a Long History of Covert Foreign Scandals

Juan Cole

Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and now Florida Senator Mario Rubio this week attacked former Secretary of State John Kerry for meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif this past winter and spring for conversations about ways of preserving the Iran nuclear deal (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or JCPOA). Former secretaries of […]

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Annual State Dept. Report on decline of Terrorism forgets to Thank Iran and Hizbullah

Annual State Dept. Report on decline of Terrorism forgets to Thank Iran and Hizbullah

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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The annual State Department report on terrorism says that terrorist attacks were down by 23% world wide in 2017. The report attributed this decline in some large part to the defeat of ISIL in Iraq and Syria. (Obviously, they haven’t disappeared there, and pockets continue to offer resistance, but let’s […]

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