US politics

By Ramzy Baroud | (TeleSur) | – – Israeli footprints are becoming more apparent in the U.S. security apparatus. Such a fact does not bode well for ordinary people from the United States. U.S. Senate Bill S.720 should have been a wake-up call. The bill, drafted by the Israel lobby group, U.S. Israel Public Affairs […]

al-Qaeda

Is Bin Laden Shaping America more than our Founding Fathers?

Juan Cole

By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – Honestly, if there’s an afterlife, then the soul of Osama bin Laden, whose body was consigned to the waves by the U.S. Navy back in 2011, must be swimming happily with the dolphins and sharks. At the cost of the sort of spare change that Donald […]

Slavery and Trafficking

That Time when Muslim Tunisia advised the Antebellum US to Abolish Slavery

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Revised classroom version Some observers imply that in 1861, most people in the world believed in slavery and so you can’t blame the American South for retaining it. This premise is not true. For one thing, a majority of American states had abolished slavery. Ohio did […]

Donald Trump

No Compromise: Let’s not forget Kelly’s ‘Empty Barrel’ Smear

Juan Cole

By Gail Ukockis | (Informed Comment) | – – “Oh, no. No. Never. Well, I’ll apologize if I need to. But for something like that, absolutely not. I stand by my comments.” This was the response by General John Kelly when asked on Monday night whether he was going to apologize to Representative Wilson for […]

African-Americans

Upshot of Mueller Probe: Putin did to US what we did to Iran and Iraq

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The indictment of George Papadopoulos, the foreign policy adviser for the Trump campaign in 2016, for lying to the FBI is the most important news that came out Monday. What he lied about was the timeline of his contacts with the Russian Federation on behalf of […]

Donald Trump

Trump will regret Making the Iran Nuclear Deal a two-way relationship

contributors

By Jacopo Scita | (Informed Comment) | – – When President Trump, in the middle of his first speech at the United Nations, referred to the 2015 Iran nuclear deal as “one of the worst and most one-sided transactions the United States has ever entered into” he made the case that, under his administration, Washington […]

Corruption

Midnight at Mar-a-Lago: The walls close in on Genghis Con

contributors

By David Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – Yesterday the former chairman of President Trump’s presidential campaign and the architect of last year’s Republican National Convention got up, got out of bed, drank his coffee and went to jail. Shortly thereafter, one of the president’s erstwhile foreign policy advisors was revealed to be a […]

Donald Trump

How Fox & Murdoch paved way for Putin Election Ploy

Juan Cole

Reprint edn. Update: Reuters reports that “Facebook says 126 million Americans may have seen Russia-linked political posts” By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – In Edgar Allan Poe’s “Purloined Letter,” detective C. Auguste Dupin discovers a stolen letter in the thief’s own apartments after police searches had failed to turn it up. It […]

Corruption

Top Six Trump Admin. Crimes that ought to bring Indictments

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – 1. Jeff Sessions lied under oath, saying he never met with any Russian official during the Trump presidential campaign. He met the Russian ambassador twice. The GOP impeached Bill Clinton for perjury in what was a minor personal matter, but stand by Sessions despite his perjury […]