The Los Angeles Times | (Video News Clip) | – – “White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, criticizing Florida Congresswoman Frederica Wilson, misrepresented an April 2015 speech she made at the opening of a new FBI building in Miami. (Oct. 20, 2017)” “Frederica Wilson 2015 Video Shows John Kelly Got It Wrong | Los […]
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US politics
George W. Bush & GOP lack standing to bash Trump for Racism
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – George W. Bush gave a speech on Thursday widely interpreted as an attack on Trump in which he deplored the rise of white nationalism and bigotry in the past year. “Bigotry,” he lamented, “seems emboldened.” George W. Bush may or may not personally be a nice […]
Are China and N. Korea biggest Winners from Trump dissing Iran Deal?
Neil Thompson | (Informed Comment) | – – The recent move by President Trump to unilaterally decertify Iran under the 2015 nuclear agreement has predictably caused tensions between Iran and the West to rise. Trump’s unilateral jettisoning of the Obama-era deal (which has been sent back for 60-day congressional review in a bid to renegotiate […]
Iran’s Khamenei: We’ll observe Deal if Europe does, despite “Charlatan,” Trump
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Iran’s clerical Leader, Ali Khamenei, said on Wednesday that he did not intend to engage in a tit for tat with Donald Trump, who had attacked Iran in a speech last week. “Naturally, I do not want to spend time right now in replying to the […]
Is racial bias driving Trump’s neglect of Puerto Rico?
By Lauren Lluveras | (The Conversation) | – – The morning after Hurricane Maria blasted through Puerto Rico, I emailed my aunt to ask if she was safe. That was Sept. 21. I heard back from her on Oct. 10. She was fine, she assured me, but “Puerto Rico is destroyed.” After that, my tia […]
Trump told widow of slain Sgt., he “knew what he was getting into”
CBS News | (Video Report) | – – “U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson said that she was in the car when President Trump called the widow of Army Sgt. La David T. Johnson, who was killed in Niger. Wilson said Trump said Johnson “knew what he was getting into. Wilson spoke to CBS Miami about the […]
Justice Roberts used bad Data to end Voting Rights Act & other shoddy SCOTUS Mistakes
By Ryan Gabrielson | ( ProPublica ) | – – ProPublica review adds fuel to a longstanding worry about the nation’s highest court: The justices can botch the truth, sometimes in cases of great import. In 2007, a group of California Institute of Technology scientists working at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory filed suit against the […]
“Tell me how this Ends”- Gen. Petraeus has decided Forever War Doesn’t
By Tom Engelhardt | ( Tomdispatch.com | – – It took 14 years, but now we have an answer. It was March 2003, the invasion of Iraq was underway, and Major General David Petraeus was in command of the 101st Airborne Division heading for the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Rick Atkinson, Washington Post journalist and military […]
3 ways Trump’s nuclear strategy misunderstands Iran’s Mood
By Nancy Gallagher | (The Conversation) | – – U.S. President Donald Trump has refused to tell Congress that the 2015 nuclear deal the Obama administration reached with Iran and five other world powers still serves U.S. national interests. This refusal, or decertification, went against top officials in his own government and the International Atomic […]
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