US politics

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The US Navy in the Red Sea fired Tomahawk missiles into Yemen early Thursday morning, taking out three radar stations. Those facilities had allowed the Houthi rebels who control North Yemen to target US destroyers in the Red Sea on several occasions in recent days (they […]

Authoritarianism

Partial Police? Uniformed Texas Officers Wear Trump Hats

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By TeleSur | – – A dozen police officers face “benign” discipline after they appeared with Donald Trump while sporting his “Make America Great Again” caps in uniform. More than a dozen San Antonio police officers in uniform wore U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” hats during his stop in Texas […]

Climate Change

Clinton brings back Gore, talks Green, but still Opposes Carbon Tax

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – On Tuesday, Hillary Clinton campaigned in Miami with Al Gore, attempting both to shore up her credentials with both environmentalists and Millennial youth. Gore, Bill Clinton’s vice president, very narrowly lost the 2000 election to George W. Bush, mainly because of a disputed Florida count. Gore […]

Foreign Policy

In a Multipolar World, the US can no Longer Intervene at Will

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By Dilip Hiro | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | – – In the strangest election year in recent American history — one in which the Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson couldn’t even conjure up the name of a foreign leader he “admired” while Donald Trump remained intent on building his “fat, beautiful wall” and “taking” Iraq oil […]

Democratic Party

The Unbearable Horror of Donald Trump

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By David M. Faris | (Informed Comment) | – – Monday’s debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton was a bizarre, disorienting carnival from the start. It was one of the only debates I’ve ever watched without developing a sense of the winner, not because the candidates hit their partisan talking points, but rather because […]

Featured

Die-Hard Trump Supporters want to be Trump

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Back in the 1960s when the James Bond craze hit the US and even President Jack Kennedy revealed that he liked Ian Fleming’s thrillers, I remember reading an interesting essay on the reason for the character’s popularity. After all, James Bond is not in fact very […]

Republican Party

GOP finally shocked as Trump admits to being serial Groper of white women on Hot Mic

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By TeleSur | – – Trump was caught using vulgar terms to refer to women he tried to seduce. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump bragged about groping, aggressively kissing and making sexual advances toward a married woman, a taped conversation obtained by the Washington Post published on Friday reveals. The recording was made in 2005 […]

Featured

How Far will Americans take anti-Muslim Hate? Making them wear Green Stars?

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The de facto criminalization of being Muslim or speaking Arabic, which is contrary to every core American value and contradicts the First Amendment, is proceeding apace. The number of anti-Muslim attacks in the US is up by 80% since Donald Trump announced his proposed Muslim ban […]

Republican Party

Dear Donald Trump: I treat combat veterans with PTSD, and they are not weak

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By Joan Cook | (The Conversation) | – – Mr. Trump, there’s someone I’d like you to meet. Well, not one person per se, but the thousands of veterans I’ve had the privilege to work with as a clinical psychologist over the past 20 years. They’ve served this country proudly – shouldering the responsibilities of […]