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On August 5, 1974, Nixon was forced by the Supreme Court to release the smoking gun tape in which he and his chief of staff H. R. Haldemann had a conversation, in the course of which Nixon could be heard acknowledging his knowledge of the burglary of the Democratic National Committee office files in the […]

Democratic Party

Finally, an Impeachment Inquiry: Pelosi on “Nationalist” Trump’s “betrayal of our National Security”

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Nancy Pelosi finally caved to pressure to open an impeachment inquiry into Trump, after he admitted to having pressured the Ukraine government to investigate his Democratic rival Joe Biden. Biden is clearly furious over the whole thing, and as a pillar of the Democratic establishment and former president of the […]

Climate Change

Greta Thunberg’s Generational J’accuse: It’s a Crime to Cause the Climate Crisis

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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Greta Thunberg, in her speech to the United Nations General Assembly, let them have it.(See below.) Over a century ago, when authoritarian elements in the French officer corps trumped up a treason case against a Jewish officer, Alfred Dreyfus, novelist Émile Zola wrote an open letter to the president of […]

Democratic Party

Ukraine Scandal shows the Squad was Right about Impeaching Trump, & they’re Telling the Dems so

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (D-Mi) was widely castigated for saying, virtually as soon as she was elected, that it was necessary to impeach Trump (she used a colorful epithet in doing so, which some observers said made a bad impression, even though rich old white guys speak like that all the […]

Corruption

Bribery & High Crimes and Misdemeanors: Did Trump finally go Full Impeachable in Ukraine Calls?

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that in the course of his conversation in July with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, Trump pressed him on eight separate occasions to investigate Democratic presidential contender Joe Biden. Biden when vice president is known to have pressured the Ukrainian government to fire a prosecutor […]

Climate Crisis

The 3.5% Rule: The next stage of the Global Climate Movement is Nonviolent Civil Disobedience

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – On the heels of Friday’s mainly student-led global climate strike, some activists believe that they must next resort to Gandhian nonviolent civil disobedience, becoming disruptive of the fossil fuel normal. The research of Erica Chenowith finds that if 3.5 percent of a population joins protests in a concerted manner, they […]

Climate Crisis

Juan Cole is on strike today because he began warning you about the Climate Emergency in the Bush Era and you completely blew him off.

Juan Cole

You only get a golden oldie today. Here’s what I was writing 11 years ago; apparently I may as well have printed it out and buried it in my garden. Carbon dioxide emissions and methane emissions are both up substantially in 2019. McCain is arguing for offshore drilling to lower US petroleum prices in the […]

Donald Trump

Trump again Tries to Get Ilhan Omar Killed à la Heather Heyer with Lies about Dancing on 9/11

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – One of the “very fine people” Trump praised at the Charlottesville riot by Nazis and Klansmen rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters (i.e. ordinary people) and killed Heather Heyer on August 12, 2017. Trump appears to be angling for one of his Volk to do the same thing […]