By Isaac Arnsdorf | (ProPublica) | – – The Trump administration is holding talks on providing nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia — a move that critics say could upend decades of U.S. policy and lead to an arms race in the Middle East. The Saudi government wants nuclear power to free up more oil for […]
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US politics
Sanders pushes Marshall Plan, Renewables, for Puerto Rico as Trump tries to Lower own Taxes
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Trump went to Puerto Rico and told the hurricane victims there that they were inconvenient since the disaster that left them without potable water or electricity (nearly half still lack it) had put a crimp in the GOP budget. It later emerged that the GOP budget […]
Reportage is too Pro-War: How Peace Journalism can deescalate conflict in the Age of Trump and North Korea
By Michael Greenwell | (The Conversation) | – – It came as a slight relief to see at least some measured coverage of Donald Trump’s recent visit to South Korea. Sections of the media have been predicting World War III – and focusing on barbed and incendiary comments between Trump and North Korean leader Kim […]
Inequality Rising: When will Trump’s base get wise to his populist charade?
Tomdispatch.com | – – Among the stranger features of the 2016 election campaign was the success of Donald Trump, a creature of globalization, as an America First savior of the white working class. A candidate who amassed billions of dollars by playing globalization for all it was worth — he manufactured clothes and accessories bearing […]
Far Right ‘Project Veritas’ Scam EXPOSED; Attempt to Smear Moore Victims (TYT Video)
By Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola | The Young Turks | (Video Report) | – – The Washington Post exposed Project Veritas’ most recent scam. Cenk Uygur, and John Iadarola the hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. “A woman who falsely claimed to […]
Trump meets Native Vets, uses ‘Pocahantas’ as Insult
TeleSur | – – “(Trump should) stop using our historical people of significance as a racial slur against one of his opponents,” a Native American advocate said. President Donald Trump has provoked the ire of Native Americans once again by using a meeting meant to honor Native World War Two veterans as an occasion to […]
With 305 dead in Sinai Terror, Trump babbles Wall & Visas
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – As the death toll in this weekend’s horrific terrorist attack on a Sufi mosque near El Arish in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula rose to at least 305, the patriarch of the Coptic Church, Tawadros II, affirmed the solidarity of Egypt’s some 8 million Christians with the Muslim […]
Every Time we Laugh at Trump, It’s a ‘Tiny Revolution’
By Linda Kiernan | (The Conversation) | – – The power of laughter is something of a theme in Donald Trump’s presidency. Trump’s humourless response to Barack Obama’s jibes at the White House correspondents’ dinner in 2011 allegedly steeled his reserve to run for president in the first place; the New York Times recently asked […]
What if the US never fell for al-Qaeda’s trap & avoided ‘War on Terror’?
By Danny Sjursen | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – “Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.” — Thucydides You’ve heard the platitude that hindsight is 20/20. It’s true enough and, though I’ve been a regular skeptic about what policymakers used to call the Global War on Terror, it’s always easier to poke holes […]
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