By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump’s inaugural speech, like the candidate himself, was a chain of falsehoods, saber-rattling and scary Neofascist uber-nationalism. But it could be difficult to follow because so much of it seemed stolen from the mass politics of the 1930s in central and southern Europe. So here […]
The Inauguration of White Supremacy
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump’s cabinet has no Latinos, the first time that minority, which comprises 18 percent of Americans, is absent for twenty-five years. Trump famously accused Mexican-Americans of being the worst people, including in their ranks rapists and drug dealers and having been deliberately sent across the border […]
All Dutch Electric Trains are Wind-Powered & other Advances Trump’s US will Miss out On
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Although Donald Trump has complained about America’s failing airports, bridges and roads and expressed admiration for those of Dubai, his opposition to green energy will deprive Americans of efficient, clean new vehicles and buildings that would have saved them billions of dollars, created hundreds of thousands […]
Along with pardoning Manning, Obama should have repealed 1917 Espionage Act
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In a daring and bold move that showed his profound humanitarian side, President Obama has commuted the 35-year sentence of Chelsea Manning, a transgender woman and former military intelligence analyst who in 2010 leaked hundreds of thousands of State Department cables and also some Iraq and […]
Screwed?: 4 Top International Crises we have to depend on Trump to Resolve
By Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Within months of taking office, President Donald Trump is likely to face one or more major international crises, possibly entailing a risk of nuclear escalation. Not since the end of the Cold War has a new chief executive been confronted with as many potential flashpoints […]
Trump feuds with Merkel, EU, BMW, NATO, China, CIA but not with Putin
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Donald Trump picked a fight with almost everyone but his buddy Vladimir Putin this weekend. His continued tweaking of China over its claims on Taiwan produced a sharp rebuke from Beijing. John Brennan, head of the CIA, pushed back against Trump’s branding of the agency as […]
In the Age of Trumpian Reaction, is MLK’s Legacy to the 99% being Reversed?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Reaction has two main meanings in English. One is to respond to some new situation (not specifying the nature of the reaction). The other is to resist some innovation. In this second sense, a reactionary is one who wants to go back to a previously existing […]
5 Images that refute Trump’s attack on Hero John Lewis
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – It began when Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) announced that he would not attend the inaugural of Donald J. Trump because he did not consider him a legitimate president. Lewis, sometimes called “the conscience of Congress,” emerged to prominence as a very young man in 1963-66 as […]
From Syria to Sanctions, Flynn-Russia Quid Pro Quo?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The headlines about Trump and his team on the one hand and the Russian Federation on the other are coming fast and furious. The items are often, however, merely isolated data points. Can we draw them together? First, while the Obama administration was imposing sanctions on […]
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