By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s State of the Union address had all the elements of fascism except brownshirts marching in the street beating people up (and he veered toward even that in his praise of the Klan and Neo-Nazis at Charlottesville). Fascism pretends to incorporate the good of the masses […]
Egyptian opposition call for boycotting presidential elections
Middle East Monitor | – – Egyptian former presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi called today for boycotting the country’s upcoming presidential elections due in March. Speaking at a press conference held at the opposition Dignity Party headquarters in the capital Cairo, Sabahi called for the formation of a “unified coalition” to boycott the elections. “These are […]
Trump declines to Sanction Russia, Spurring Speculation about Putin Hold
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Trump administration has refused to implement new sanctions on the Russian defense sector, as mandated by Congress’s “Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act,” or CAATSA. Congress passed the bill last year and it was reluctantly finally signed by Trump in August. It is vaguely worded […]
Is The Internet A Luxury Or A Right? (Video)
AJ+ | – – “Ten percent of people in the U.S. don’t have broadband internet, and the number is much higher among rural communities and the urban poor. “ Is The Internet A Luxury Or A Right? | AJ+
No, Trump, Ice isn’t growing at Poles, and Yes, we are Boiling the Earth
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Associated Press did a useful fact check of Trump’s bizarre assertions on climate change in the interview with his friend Piers Morgan. Since Trump is not good with reading books and the like, it may be helpful to reply to his falsehoods with graphs. TRUMP: […]
In the Age of Big Climate Change we have to stop Farting Carbon
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – This past year is what the era of Big Climate Change looks like. We are only at the beginning of the massive changes we are making to our environment by farting 41 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide (a heat-trapping gas) into our atmosphere every year, […]
Blood oil: more than half of the oil traded across the world has been stolen
By Leif Wenar | (The Conversation) | – – Donald Trump tweeted something true recently. Responding to the protests in Iran, the US president stated that “The people are finally getting wise as to how their money and wealth is being stolen and squandered.” Trump’s point is correct: what vice-president Mike Pence called Iran’s “unelected […]
Many in Press fall for Trump’s non-apology on retweet of anti-Muslim Hate
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In the course of Trump’s softball interview with his friend Piers Morgan, he said he’d be willing to apologize for retweeting three tweets by a member of a British far right racist group, Britain First, which has about 1,000 members. Guardian: “‘I would certainly apologise’: Trump […]
In blow to Trump, Syrian Kurds call on al-Assad to Save them from Turkey
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The hopes of the Trump administration to use the Syrian Kurds as a wedge against the government of Bashar al-Assad in Damascus may be rapidly fading. The liberal Lebanese newspaper Elbalad [The Country] reports that the Autonomous Administration of the Kurdish-majority Afrin region of northern Syria, […]
© 2024 All Rights Reserved