By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The NYT has broken the story that several Trump associates are under investigation by the FBI for their contacts with Russian intelligence and other officials during the 2016 presidential campaign. These contacts worried the FBI and other intelligence agencies, given that they were seeing Russian hacking […]
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Europe
Has Trump quietly surrendered to Russia and China?
Michael T. Klare | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – If there’s a single consistent aspect to Donald Trump’s strategic vision, it’s this: U.S. foreign policy should always be governed by the simple principle of “America First,” with this country’s vital interests placed above those of all others. “We will always put America’s interests first,” he […]
Questions about Judgment: Trump appointed Flynn in the First Place
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The sudden resignation of Trump National Security Adviser Mike Flynn on Monday evening clearly was actually a firing. Flynn was given a pink slip for embarrassing Vice President Mike Pence by assuring him that he had not discussed sanctions with the Russian ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, in […]
Give us your Huddled Scientists: France woos US Climate Researchers, Inventors in age of Trump
By Frédéric Simon | EurActiv.com | – – The United States of America. Home of the free. Land of the brave. And, until Donald Trump became president, a beacon of science, research and technology. And Emanuel Macron wants a piece of it. Emmanuel Macron, who emerged this week as the favourite in the French presidential […]
Could NSA Flynn face Criminal Charges over Russia Ties?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn (Ret.) is the National Security Adviser of President Trump. Very serious questions continue to swirl around his relationship with the government of the Russian Federation. These questions take on special significance given the alleged Russian role in interfering in the 2016 presidential […]
Feature, not Bug: Trump’s Chaos Theory of Government
Jacek Rostowski | (Project Syndicate) | – – WARSAW – In the weeks since Donald Trump’s inauguration as President of the United States, it has become clear that he intends to roll back the progressive-egalitarian agenda that is commonly associated with “political correctness” to the starting block – not just in the United States, but […]
Speaker of British House of Commons: Trump not Welcome Here
TeleSur | – – “An address by a foreign leader to both houses of parliament is not an automatic right; it is an earned honor,” Bercow concluded. The speaker of the United Kingdom’s lower house of parliament said Monday he would block any plans for U.S. President Donald Trump to address parliament during a state […]
When Germany thinks someone is Killing Democracy . . .
TeleSur | – – The illustrator is a Cuban immigrant who put his views on Trump into a piece of art that is now on the cover of one of the world’s leading magazines. The influential German news magazine Der Spiegel has released its Feb. 4 cover featuring a cartoon image of Donald Trump holding […]
Top 3 Ways to rig an Election
By William deBuys | ( Tomdispatch.com ) – – Donald Trump was right. The election was rigged. What Trump got wrong (and, boy, does he get things wrong) is that the rigging worked in his favor. The manipulations took three monumental forms: Russian cyber-sabotage; FBI meddling; and systematic Republican efforts, especially in swing states, to […]
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