Democratic Party

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The hysteria about Russian hacking of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee servers and the phishing scam run on Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager, John Podesta, is short on evidence and high in self-righteousness. Much of the report issued Friday was old boilerplate about […]

Barack Obama

Top 5 Ways Obama Sanctions on Russia work for Democrats

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – President Obama’s sanctions on Russia are small potatoes and will have almost no effect on the Russian Federation. The high officials sanctioned are unlikely to have assets in the US that Washington can attach. When you hear that the US is sanctioning the FSB (the Russian […]

Bernie Sanders

Sanders: Trump’s Dangerous Nukes Talk Must be Challenged

contributors

By Jon Queally, staff writer | (Commondreams.org) | – – ‘Presidents, Republicans and Democrats, have understood that our goal must be to reduce the number of nuclear weapons, not expand them.’ Deriding President-elect Donald Trump as the ‘Twitter-in-Chief,’ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said recent comments on a nuclear arms race must be challenged by members […]

Barack Obama

Obama dismantles Bush Muslim Registry to make Trump start from Scratch

contributors

By TeleSur | – – Activists say Thursday’s announcement of the dismantling of the notorious NSEERS program is a key victory in the fight against Trump’s Islamophobia. After 14 years of almost constant organizing, activists celebrated Thursday the announcement that the Obama administration would fully dismantle a dormant “special registration” program that targeted migrants from […]

African-Americans

Sorry, Garrison Keillor: Keith Ellison for President could have beaten Trump, and still Can

Juan Cole

Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – I am a fan of Garrison Keillor, of “Prairie Home Companion” fame. I am also a fan of Keith Ellison (D-MN), the prominent liberal representative from Minneapolis and happens to be a Muslim. Unfortunately for me, I have to choose between them because Keillor, deep in depression […]

Barack Obama

Nine Things Obama Could Do Before Leaving to blunt the National Security State

contributors

By Pratap Chatterjee | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – In less than seven weeks, President Barack Obama will hand over the government to Donald Trump, including access to the White House, Air Force One, and Camp David. Trump will also, of course, inherit the infamous nuclear codes, as well as the latest in warfare […]

Democratic Party

Election Postmortem: Did the Labor Unions get Taken for a Ride?

contributors

By Andrew Kolin | (Informed Comment) | – – According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, “Labor Unions Step Up Presidential Election Spending,” labor unions contributed to Hillary Clinton at a scale that is without precedent. The article pointed to $108.2 million contributed in this presidential election cycle. These contributions raise questions […]

Democratic Party

How can Progressives get through the Next 4 Years? Organize!

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Anti-Trump demonstrations have broken out all over the country in the wake of his surprise victory on Tuesday. Latinos are afraid he will deport their undocumented relatives, breaking up millions of families. Women are afraid for their basic rights to control their bodies, a right Trump […]

Democratic Party

Why the White Working Class Rebelled: Neoliberalism is Killing Them (Literally)

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The Democratic Party has been the Establishment for eight years, and the Clintons have arguably been the Establishment for 24 years. Since the late 1990s, members of the white working class with high school or less have seen their life-chances radically decline, even to the point […]