Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s speech on new sanctions on Iran lays out a wide range of Iranian behavior he would like to change, and specified harsh US financial sanctions as his instrument. Pompeo, a Kansas oil man backed by the Koch brothers, is just a former congressman and a virulent Christian fundamentalist with white […]
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US politics
Trump Collusion: How afraid should we be of Mohammed Bin Zayed of the UAE?
Another meeting between the Trump campaign and a representative of the leader of the United Arab Emirates has been uncovered by the New York Times’s Mark Mazzetti, Ronen Bergman, and David Kirkpatrick, this one in August of 2016. The gathering at Trump Tower was arranged by George Nader, a Lebanese-American international fixer with ties to […]
The Bolton Administration Has Already Begun
The hard-right national security adviser successfully tanked the Iran deal. His next target? The North Korea talks. For a man with a reputation for venting spleen and flying off the handle, John Bolton bided his time before finally rising to the position of power he now occupies. The former U.S. ambassador to the UN spent […]
Gun Epidemic: Pakistani Exchange Student killed by Santa Fe, TX, Shooter was no Safer in US than at Home
Just to note the irony that a Pakistani exchange student, Sabika Sheikh, was among the (so far) 10 persons killed in the school massacre at Santa Fe, Texas. Pakistan has seen a stark reduction in deaths from terrorism in recent years. The Global Terrorism Index for 2017 says that “Pakistan also recorded a decrease in […]
How Trump’s 2000 lies are Termites chomping at the Foundations of Democracy
( Tomdispatch.com) Consider us officially in an Orwellian world, though we only half realize it. While we were barely looking, significant parts of an American language long familiar to us quite literally, and in a remarkably coherent way, went down the equivalent of George Orwell’s infamous Memory Hole. This hit me in a personal way […]
When Trump calls Latinos “Animals,” should we hear echoes of the SS’s Undermen?
In the beginning of the internet back in the late 1980s and early 1990s when you for the first time had large and contentious discussions online at bulletin boards like Usenet, attorney Mike Godwin noticed that the longer a discussion went on, the more likely it was that someone would make a Hitler comparison. Some […]
Seattle Approves Tax on Amazon, Starbucks and Big Firms to Tackle Homelessness
(TeleSur) Seattle is the third U.S. region with highest number of homeless people, but Amazon and Starbucks think the move is hostile toward them. The Seattle city council approved a new “head tax” to its largest businesses, such as Amazon and Starbucks, to help fund homeless emergency services and affordable housing, and companies are not […]
Blowback Machine: How our forever Wars are opening the Gates of Hell
( Tomdispatch.com) As I was putting the finishing touches on my new book, the Costs of War Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute published an estimate of the taxpayer dollars that will have gone into America’s war on terror from September 12, 2001, through fiscal year 2018. That figure: a cool $5.6 trillion (including the […]
Gearing Up for the Third Gulf War: a Future Cataclysm between US, Israel, Saudi and Iran?
( Tomdispatch) With Donald Trump’s decision to shred the Iran nuclear agreement, announced last Tuesday, it’s time for the rest of us to start thinking about what a Third Gulf War would mean. The answer, based on the last 16 years of American experience in the Greater Middle East, is that it won’t be pretty. […]
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