US politics

By Al Carroll | (Informed Comment) | – – Numerous analysts, journalists, publications, and scholars judge Mr. Trump to be a fascist. These range from academics to Newsweek to Salon to the New Republic to even Forbes magazine and conservatives like Max Boot and Jeb Bush. He is authoritarian, appeals to irrationality, is highly nationalistic, […]

Bill of Rights

On the Fourth of July: None of us has Inalienable Rights if American Muslims don’t

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – On this day when the United States was first conceived in rebellion against people being deprived of their God-given rights to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, it is worth remarking on our political season. One of our two major presidential candidates has targeted America’s some […]

Campaign Finance

K Street is a 1-Party State: DC Corruption is a Feature, not a Bug

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By Thomas Frank | (Tomdispatch.com) | – – Although it’s difficult to remember those days eight years ago when Democrats seemed to represent something idealistic and hopeful and brave, let’s take a moment and try to recall the stand Barack Obama once took against lobbyists. Those were the days when the nation was learning that […]

Central Intelligence Agency

CIA Arms For Syria Sold by Jordan Spies on Black Market For Terrorists

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Jo Ankier, Elliot Hill and Mark Sovel | (TheLipTV) | – – “Weapons sent by the CIA to Jordan for Syrian rebels were stolen by Jordanian intelligence operatives and sold to arms merchants on the black market, a joint investigation by The New York Times and Al Jazeera has revealed, citing American and Jordanian officials. […]

Featured

ISIL Terrorism Strikes at Turkish Economy; & Someone tell Trump the Victims are Muslim

Juan Cole

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The terrorist attack on Ataturk Airport in Istanbul Tuesday immediately drew a crass barb from Donald Trump implying that it supported his notion of banning Muslims from the US. Trump probably doesn’t know that the Turks are mostly Muslim, so he is threatening reprisals against the […]

Employment

US Elites Abandoned their Workers: Trump is their Revenge; & You ain’t seen Nothin’ Yet

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By John Feffer | ( Tomdispatch.com) | – – The voters vowed to take their revenge at the polls. They’d missed out on the country’s vaunted prosperity. They were disgusted with the liberal direction of the previous administration. They were anti-abortion and pro-religion. They were suspicious of immigrants, haughty intellectuals, and intrusive international institutions. And […]

Guns

NRA: The Public be Damned (Political cartoon)

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By Paul Jamiol | ( Jamiol’s World ) Courtesy Jamiol’s World

Bernie Sanders

Dissing Progressives, DNC Platform Backs Fracking, TPP, and Israeli Occupation

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By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | – – Appointees by Clinton and Wasserman Schulz resoundingly reject numerous proposals put forth by Sanders surrogates. Despite its claims to want to unify voters ahead of November’s election, the Democratic party appears to be pushing for an agenda that critics say ignores basic progressive […]

BDS Occupied Territories

Will Gov. Cuomo’s executive order against Israel Boycott strengthen movement?

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By Tekendra Parmar | ( Waging Nonviolence ) | – – On June 5, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order to create a blacklist of entities that support the boycott, divestment and sanctions, or BDS, movement for Palestinian rights and remove New York State funds from any “institution or company” determined to advocate for […]