Rashida Tlaib, the Palestinian-American congresswoman-elect, said she will wear a traditional Palestinian gown for her swearing-in ceremony in the United States House of Representatives next month. This move by Tlaib can be seen as a way to make visible a community in the U.S. Congress which has been made invisible due to Israel’s excessive influence […]
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US politics
Was even Trump’s Inauguration a Corrupt Scam? And, Was Ivanka in the Middle?
By Ilya Marritz, WNYC, and Justin Elliott (ProPublica) – As the inaugural committee planned the landmark celebration, internal concerns were raised about whether Trump’s Washington hotel was overcharging for event space. The spending could be a violation of the law. When it came out this year that President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee raised and spent […]
Cohen: Trump Knew Illegality of Hush Money Payments to Porn Star, Nude Model
Washington, United States | AFP | – Donald Trump has said he never directed his former lawyer Michael Cohen to break the law. US President Donald Trump knew it was wrong to order election-eve payments to two women who claimed to have had affairs with him, his longtime lawyer Michael Cohen said in his first […]
Is Saudi Crown Prince using Kushner to Manipulate Trump?
Rising up with Sonali featured an interview with me on “Saudi Crown Prince Might Be Manipulating Trump Through Kushner” by Sonali Kolhatkar. Watch @jricole explain how “Saudi Crown Prince Might Be Manipulating Trump Through Kushner?” by @RUWithSonali on #Vimeo https://t.co/DgfKGfPJV1 — Rising Up W/ Sonali (@RUWithSonali) December 12, 2018
Top 6 Reasons Dems shouldn’t Allocate a single Cent for Trump’s Idiotic Wall
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump’s televised badgering of Sen. Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi was made for cable television, which predictably looped it over and over again on Tuesday and assembled “panels” of “experts” solemnly to parse Trump’s insane meanderings, Schumer’s hamming it up for the cameras, and Pelosi’s pitifully forlorn call for a […]
Why does the MSM let Trump set the News Agenda, Every Minute of Every Day?
New York ( Tomdispatch.com ) – Breaking News! — as NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt often puts it when beginning his evening broadcast. Here, in summary, is my view of the news that’s breaking in the United States on just about any day of the week: Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Trump. Or rather (in […]
A Protest Against ‘Climate of Fear’ at U of Michigan over standing for Palestinian Rights
(Informed Comment) – In response to the furor that arose this fall over the disciplining of Professor John Cheney-Lippold for declining to write a letter of recommendation for a student to do summer study at Tel Aviv University, the administration of the university has appointed a faculty commission (which is light on humanists) to consider […]
Top 8 Ways John Kelly was an Embarrassment as WH Chief of Staff
Revised By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump announced Saturday that his chief of staff, John Kelly, will leave at the end of the month. It has been reported that the two men are not speaking. Kelly was often seen as a force for stability in the Trump administration, but as I […]
Top 5 Must-Know Revelations in Russia Probe
Washington, DC | (AFP) | – US President Donald Trump has repeatedly called Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election — and possible collusion with Trump campaign officials — a “witch hunt” New filings by federal prosecutors have brought major revelations about Russian efforts to forge links to US President […]
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