Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – There are many things wrong with National Security Adviser John Bolton, but the worst is his fixation on petroleum politics. His response to the complex crisis of Venezuela is to hope that US energy corporations can produce some of that country’s oil (“It will make a big difference to the […]
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Featured
America’s 7 Racist Exclusions: From Muslim Visa Ban to 1930s Exclusion of Jews
Revised.- ed. Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The two-year anniversary of Trump’s Muslim visa ban and Holocaust Remembrance Day have arrived more or less together, and it is worthwhile reviewing how they reveal an ugly side to America. US history is replete with racism as public policy. It has been more often our history than […]
How Long til Trump & GOP Radical Islamophobia causes Major Massacre?
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Three extremist white nationalists who plotted to blow up a Somali-American apartment complex in Kansas have been sentenced to 25 years in prison. The men made and tested explosives to use on the Somali immigrants, whom they called “cockroaches” and other terms that CNN couldn’t repeat. Somalis are Sunni Muslims. […]
Workers & a Seasoned Speaker Defeated Trump on Shutdown; it Wasn’t about Gender
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Some of the language being used for the victory of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over President Donald Trump with regard to ending the month-long shut-down of the US government has played on gender reversals. Jimmy Kimmel, not known for being politically correct, said that Trump ‘bent over’ for her. Nancy […]
Ireland Bans Israeli Settler goods from Occupied Palestinian West Bank
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Ireland’s parliament has voted by 78 votes to 45 to ban the importation into Ireland of goods produced by Israeli squatter firms in the militarily Occupied Palestinian West Bank. According to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention on occupied territories, the occupying authority is forbidden to settle its own population in […]
Trump as Hostage-Taker in Chief: From Congress to Cohen to Migrant Children
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I argued when Trump was sworn in that his regime represented a new form of government, psychopathocracy— a government without a conscience run by people with no scruples or empathy. Trump continues to govern in this psychopathic way. Just as criminal gang bosses and dictators take hostages and threaten or […]
Trump’s anti-Iran Warsaw Conference Collapsing, as Russia says Iran should have been Invited
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – A couple of weeks ago, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced a conference on security in the Middle East for February 13-14. Although the theme seemed general, the conclave was clearly intended by Pompeo, Saudi Arabia, and Israel to direct hate against Iran. Poland issued 70 invitations to the countries […]
Copenhagen to be 1st Carbon Neutral City by 2025 and other Wind Energy Good News Stories
Some ten percent of greater Copenhagen’s households will be powered by wind turbines set up on 9 artificial islands off its coast
Why Martin Luther King, Jr., would Support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, at 29, has become a lightning rod. She was recruited to run against a corporate Democrat by activists of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which has become a significant caucus within the Democratic Party. Her advocacy of a higher marginal tax rate (no, she […]
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